芦笋及近缘种重要活性因子与主要功能研究进展

Research progress in key active factors and major function on Asparagus officinalis L.and its wild relatives

芦笋是重要的富含芦丁、皂甙、植物多糖、有机硒、游离氨基酸和维生素等多种生物活性因子的营养型蔬菜,也是能预防和治疗肿瘤、高血压、高血脂、高血糖和肥胖等多种疾病的功能型药用植物。本文综述了芦笋及近缘种的重要活性因子类型、主要功能及其作用机制的最新研究进展,并展望了芦笋作为功能型药食兼用蔬菜的发展趋势。

Asparagus officinalis L. is an important high nutrition vegetable rich in bioactive factors such as rutin, saponins, plant polysaccharides,organic selenium,free amino acid and vitamins. It is also considered as one of important herbal medicine plants which can prevent and treat several diseases for human such as tumour, hypertension,hyperlipidemia,hyperglycemia and obesity. The latest advances in the areas of the bioactive factors,their major functions,and pharmacological mechanism in Asparagus officinalis L. and its wild relatives were reviewed. The prospect of Asparagus officinalis L. as an important functional vegetable both of food and medicine for the future was made as well.