El agave y sus derivados
Una fuente de alimentos funcionales
Abstract
The current COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of maintaining a healthy diet in order to prevent and combat this disease. However, an adequate diet could reduce the risk of suffering from other health problems such as some types of cancer, cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, it is important to consume foods that, beyond nourishing, have a beneficial effect on our body and cause an improvement in our health, thus, include in our diet the so-called functional foods.
Agave is a natural functional food that contains compounds with biological activity such as phenolic compounds, sapogenins, saponins and oligosaccharides, such as agavins and fructooligosaccharides. Additionally, there are agave derivatives such as mead and pulque which are natural sources of prebiotics, probiotics and symbiotics that exert important activities in different systems of the organism such as the immune, digestive and respiratory systems.
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