Andean Lupin (Lupinus mutabilis Sweet) a plant with nutraceutical and medicinal potential

Abstract

Comments on the report regarding the case “First record of the neotropical otter Lontra longicaudis annectens (Carnivora, Mustelidae) in the estuary Boca Negra, Jalisco, Mexico: an approach to understanding its diet” from Rodriguez- Uribe, Rubio-Padilla and Navarro-Rodriguez (2015).

Keywords

• Lupinus mutabilis Sweet “Andean Lupin” has been a neglected and marginalized Andean crop since the last decades. This plant grows naturally in Peru and in other cases it is cultivated for its delicious seeds. Unfortunately
• there are very few laboratory studies carried out on this plant and many of its benefits have not been studied or are in preliminary stages. So what is known comes from the ancestral knowledge of indigenous people who grow it (mainly from Peru and Bolivia). In order to disseminate the different properties of L. mutabilis
• this review article focuses on the nutraceutical and medicinal potential benefits