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Xanthones, polyphenolic compounds, are one of the most important classes in natural products, as they exhibit variety of pharmacological and health benefits, i.e., anti-obesity, antidiabetic, antioxidant, anti-Alzheimer, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer. Xanthones can be found in higher plants that are used as food sources, for example, Garcinia mangostana L. (the queen of fruits, mangosteen), a tropical fruit with reddish-purple pericarp that ca. 80% of it consists of xanthones. α-, β-, and γ-Mangostin are the major xanthones present in mangosteen that exhibit potential pharmacological activities. Mangosteen is used as popular food in beverages and in other health products. Also, it is traditionally used as a remedy in treating wounds, inflammation, and bacterial infections. Here in in this chapter, we draw the attention to xanthone compounds present in mangosteen showing their bioactivity and benefits on health, biosynthesis, drug discovery, registered patents, and physicochemical property space.
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H.R. El-Seedi is very grateful to the Swedish Research links grant 2016-05885 (VR for the years 2017–2019) for the generous financial support and to Jiangsu University, China, and Al-Rayan Colleges, Medina, Saudi Arabia, for Adjunct and Consultant Professor Fellowships, respectively; Mohamed A. Farag acknowledges the funding received from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
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El-Seedi, H.R. et al. (2020). Dietary Xanthones. In: Xiao, J., Sarker, S., Asakawa, Y. (eds) Handbook of Dietary Phytochemicals. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1745-3_11-1
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