Research Progress of Anthocyanins in Purple Sweet Potato
Sweet potato is one of the top ten food crops in the world,and purple sweet potato is a new variety of sweet potato,with high nutritional value,certain antioxidant,hepatoprotective,anti-tumor and other pharmacological activities,has become a hot spot in food and drug research in recent years.Purple sweet potato has high anthocyanin content,low extraction cost,and high application value.In this paper,the research progress on the chemical composition and nutritional value of anthocyanins in purple sweet potato in the past 10 years was reviewed,so as to provide reference for subsequent research on purple sweet potato.
purple sweet potatoanthocyaninschemical compositionnutritional value