As a food, mung beans contain balanced nutrients, including protein and dietary fiber, and significant amounts of bioactive phytochemicals.
Bioactive phytochemicals like sterols, tocopherols, carotenes, terpenes and polyphenols extracted from tomato by-products contain significant amounts of antioxidant activities.
Broccoli has risen as rich in bioactive phytochemicals (glucosinolates and phenolic compounds) closely linked with the reduction of cancer risk.
Numerous bioactive phytochemicals, such as saponins and flavonoids, have been isolated and identified from TT that are responsible alone or in combination for various pharmacological activities.
In the last decades, lots of epidemiological studies were focused on bioactive phytochemicals such as phenolic compounds due to their beneficial effect on human health.
One important class of bioactive phytochemicals is triterpenoids, which represent a large family of compounds classified according to the number of isoprene units (Chen et al. 2016).
Phenolic acids are major bioactive phytochemicals, and their presence in wild plants has facilitated the trend toward the increasing use of wild plants as foods [24, 25].
Open image in new window Fig. 1 A chromatogram illustrating the presence of bioactive phytochemicals Table 1 List of extricated compounds attained from GC MS Assay S. no.
The effects of microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) on the qualitative and quantitative composition of extracted bioactive phytochemicals are strongly dependent on specific operational conditions.
Novel bioactive phytochemicals are important feedstock for potential development of new pharmaceuticals and the rich biodiversity of the tropical forest holds great promise for the discovery of such compounds [2].
Punica granatum and Quercus infectoria natural dyes are reported as potent antimicrobial agents owing to the presence of a large amount of bioactive phytochemicals [34, 120, 121, 122, 123].
