ABSTRACT
Haskap (Lonicera caerulea L.) is an emerging plant with ample health benefits because of their phenolics, anthocyanins, and other antioxidants. Haskap berries have fascinated the scientific community for their distinct phytochemicals profile. It is widely acknowledged that the haskap is an emerging functional food with various dietary and health-promoting constituents, including sugars, organic acids, and macronutrients as major constituents. This chapter focuses on the impending health benefits of haskap for the prevention and treatment of numerous chronic diseases, and describes the antioxidant potential of haskap mainly from Asian countries. In Japan, and other countries, haskap has been commercially utilized for the synthesis of jams, beverages, candy, noodles, pastry, haskap chocolate jelly, wine, and tea as well as its frozen foam in yogurt and ice cream. The human intervention studies are required to confirm in vitro and experimental findings concerning the beneficial interactions among phytoconstituents of haskap and metabolic targets.
