ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the health benefits of Chinese bayberry fruits by capturing the chemical compositions of anthocyanins from Chinese bayberry fruits. It investigates the extraction and separation, chemical stability, health benefits, and their applications of anthocyanins from bayberry fruits. Recent scientific evidence has presented that anthocyanins from bayberry play a positive and potential role in the treatment of many various human diseases. Different parts of this plant are commonly used in traditional herbal medicine or folk recipes because of their various pharmacological activities such as the antioxidant, antibacterial, neuroprotective, and anticancer activities. As the number of bioactive compounds identified from bayberry extraction is increasing, the correlative researches of in vivo metabolism and bioavailability, synergies, and competitive effects of bayberry fruit extracts are receiving more and more attention. The chapter explains targeting bioactive substances, developing the commercial treatment, deep processing, and developing pharmaceutical products from bayberry fruits.
