ABSTRACT The search for new nutritional alternatives that favor human health is related to one of the world’s tendencies in science and food technology nowadays: research on food with functional properties (antioxidant activity, prebiotic activity, intestinal motility, among others), mainly regions’ autochthonous products, from which the productive sector can benefit thanks to its transformation and added value generation. In this review, the importance of four Andean food items with the potential to be explored and maximized by obtaining functional products is described. Because of the fact that blackberry, yacón, açaí and yellow pitahaya are promissory Andean foods with exceptional qualities for consumers’ health, information was gathered about studies and possible effects in treatment of diseases, and the most used methods for the product and therefore for their biocompounds. It was concluded that this kind of food items represents important alternatives for the transformation and extraction of biocompounds (pigments, antioxidants, fructo-oligosaccharides, fiber, among others), in which non-thermal technologies play a fundamental role in conserving their functional properties, and at the same time, strengthen rural agro-industry and the exploitation of autochthonous products for strengthening region’s and world’s economy.

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来自南美安第斯山脉北部地区作物的功能性食品：黑莓、雪莲果、巴西莓、黄火龙果的重要性及其生物化合物的应用

摘要 寻找有利于人类健康的新营养替代品与当今世界科学和食品技术的趋势之一有关：研究具有功能特性（抗氧化活性、益生元活性、肠道蠕动等）的食品，主要是地区本土的产品，生产部门可以通过转型和创造附加值而从中受益。在这篇综述中，描述了四种安第斯食品的重要性，这些食品有可能通过获得功能性产品来探索和最大化。由于黑莓、雅康、阿萨伊和黄色火龙果是对消费者健康具有特殊品质的安第斯特卖食品，因此收集了有关研究和治疗疾病可能效果的信息，以及产品及其生物化合物最常用的方法。得出的结论是，这种食品代表了生物化合物（色素、抗氧化剂、低聚果糖、纤维等）的转化和提取的重要替代品，其中非热技术在保护其功能特性方面发挥着重要作用，同时，加强农村农工业和本土产品的开发，以加强地区和世界经济。