Amazon Fruits as Healthy Ingredients in Muscle Food Products: A Review

Rios Mera,Juan Dario; Arteaga Miñano,Hubert Luzdemio

Amazon Fruits as Healthy Ingredients in Muscle Food Products: A Review

dc.contributor.author	Rios Mera,Juan Dario
dc.contributor.author	Arteaga Miñano,Hubert Luzdemio
dc.date.accessioned	2025-12-09T18:26:17Z
dc.date.available	2025-12-09T18:26:17Z
dc.date.issued	2024-07-01
dc.description.abstract	When looking for new ingredients to process red meat, poultry, and fish products, it is essential to consider using vegetable resources that can replace traditional ingredients such as animal fat and synthetic antioxidants that may harm health. The Amazon, home to hundreds of edible fruit species, can be a viable alternative for new ingredients in processing muscle food products. These fruits have gained interest for their use as natural antioxidants, fat replacers, colorants, and extenders. Some of the fruits that have been tested include açai, guarana, annatto, cocoa bean shell, sacha inchi oil, and peach palm. Studies have shown that these fruits can be used as dehydrated products or as liquid or powder extracts in doses between 250 and 500 mg/kg as antioxidants. Fat replacers can be added directly as flour or used to prepare emulsion gels, reducing up to 50% of animal fat without any detrimental effects. However, oxidation problems of the gels suggest that further investigation is needed by incorporating adequate antioxidant levels. In low doses, Amazon fruit byproducts such as colorants and extenders have been shown to have positive technological and sensory effects on muscle food products. While evidence suggests that these fruits have beneficial health effects, their in vitro and in vivo nutritional effects should be evaluated in muscle food products containing these fruits. This evaluation needs to be intended to identify safe doses, delay the formation of key oxidation compounds that directly affect health, and investigate other factors related to health.
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13132110
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14689/1009
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Foods
dc.publisher.country	CH
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.source	Universidad Nacional de Jaén\|\|Repositorio Institucional – UNJ
dc.subject	Amazon rainforest
dc.subject	fat replacers
dc.subject	fish products
dc.subject	meat products
dc.subject	natural antioxidants
dc.subject.ocde	https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.11.01
dc.title	Amazon Fruits as Healthy Ingredients in Muscle Food Products: A Review
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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