Abstract

ROBLES-VALDIVIA, Miguel Tirso  and  SANCHEZ-OTERO, María Guadalupe. Malvaceae family: fundamental species in agro-food industry with commercial, nutrimental and nutraceutical value. Terra Latinoam [online]. 2022, vol.40, e943.  Epub Feb 03, 2023. ISSN 2395-8030.  https://doi.org/10.28940/terra.v40i0.943.

The Malvaceae family has species widely distributed worldwide, some of them, such as cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), cacao (Theobroma cacao) and hibiscus (Hibiscus sabdariffa) are widely used in the agri-food industry and the textile industry; even so, not all the bioactive potential of these species has been exploited, such is the case of H. sabdariffa, since most of the seeds are considered as agro-industrial waste; there are species of this family, such as some members of the Sterculia and Ceiba genus, that have not been exploited on a massive scale in various industries, despite the fact that there are numerous studies that demonstrate their nutraceutical and medicinal potential.

Keywords : cyclopropenoic fatty acids; bioactive compounds; Malvaceae.

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