Relevance of Anthocyanin Metabolites Generated During Digestion on Bioactivity Attributed to Intact Anthocyanins

Claudia I. Victoria-Campos, José de Jesús Ornelas-Paz, Claudio Rios-Velasco, Saul Ruiz-Cruz, Juan Ornelas-Paz, Carmen L. Del Toro-Sánchez, Enrique Márquez-Ríos, Rogelio Calderón-Loera · 2024

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Claudia Victoria-Campos and co-authors review what digestion does to anthocyanins, the pigments that color berries and red cabbage, in a 2024 paper. These pigments are praised for health effects in cell and population studies. Yet the pigments themselves break down during digestion, and their breakdown products may deserve much of the credit.

The review gathers studies that used pure or near-pure pigments under digestion-like conditions. It tracks how the breakdown products form, how the gut moves them into the body, and what they do once inside. The weight of evidence suggests the products, not the intact pigments, drive many benefits. That shift matters for how health claims and doses should be judged.

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CREATORClaudia I. Victoria-Campos, José de Jesús Ornelas-Paz, Claudio Rios-Velasco, Saul Ruiz-Cruz, Juan Ornelas-Paz, Carmen L. Del Toro-Sánchez, Enrique Márquez-Ríos, Rogelio Calderón-Loera
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE52 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11675127

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