甜杏仁廣泛應(yīng)用于食品工業(yè)、醫(yī)藥和保健領(lǐng)域，具有多樣的生物活性和藥理作用。其多種活性成分如多元酚酸類、黃酮類、天然維生素E和不飽和脂肪酸類物質(zhì)已被現(xiàn)代研究證實(shí)是甜杏仁中重要的藥理活性成分。甜杏仁及其提取物具有抗氧化、抗腫瘤、抗真菌、肝臟保護(hù)、抗糖尿病和抗高血脂等藥理作用。綜述了近年來國(guó)內(nèi)外關(guān)于甜杏仁及其不同提取物藥理作用的研究概況。

Almond is widely used in food industry, pharmaceutical, and health care fields, with diverse biological activities and pharmacological effects. The variety of active ingredients, such as phenolics, flavonoids, natural vitamin E, and unsaturated fatty have been confirmed as important pharmacological active ingredients of almond by many modern research. Almond and its extracts have multiple pharmacological actions such as antioxidant, antitumor, antifungal, hepatoprotection, antidiabetic as well as anti- hyperlipidemia properties. The pharmacological profiles in recent years and the latest developments on the almond and its extracts are reviewed in this paper.