A Review of Nutritional Components and Biological Activity of Ficus carica

Abstract

Ficus carica is a kind of edible medicinal fruit, which is accepted by mostly customer because its sweet and sour taste and soft fleshy. Ficus carica is rich in nutritional components such as sugar, amino acids and polyphenols, which has high nutritional values. Ficus carica has significant physiological activities such as antioxidant, antitumor, and lowering blood lipid, which makes it high-quality resource for functional foods. In this paper, the nutritional compositions and biological activities such as antioxidant, lowering blood lipid, antitumor, anti-inflammatory and anti-microbico of Ficus carica are reviewed, and the future research directions are prospected. This paper provides theoretical basis for further development and industrialization of Ficus carica functional food.

Keywords

• ficus carica
• nutritional components
• biological activity
• antioxidant activity