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[1] Duarte-Casar et al. (2024), “Five Underutilized Ecuadorian Fruits and Their Bioactive Potential as Functional Foods and in Metabolic Syndrome: A Review.”
Used for: native range, Pacific/Ecuador-Amazon framing, vernacular name note, ethnopharmacological traditions, mineral emphasis, acidity, and the fruit’s aphrodisiac reputation.
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[2] Asprilla-Perea et al. (2021), “Estimating the potential of wild foods for nutrition and food security planning in tropical areas.”
Used for: borojó’s role in northwestern Colombia, food-security relevance, and the paper’s conclusion that the fruit has “High Potential” within its planning framework.
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[3] Sánchez-Capa et al. (2023), “Edible Fruits from the Ecuadorian Amazon.”
Used for: the broader Amazon-fruit bioactive framing around vitamin C, polyphenols, flavonoids, carotenoids, and anthocyanins.
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[4] FAO Non-Wood News / BioTrade reporting on borojó value chains.
Used for: staple-diet context in Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities, and documented uses including juice, pulp, marmalade, ice cream, and jelly, plus commercial extract development in Colombia.
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[5] Suriyaprom et al. (2022), “Antioxidants of Fruit Extracts as Antimicrobial Agents against Pathogenic Bacteria.”
Used for: summary of borojó aqueous extract activity against multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in vitro and the explanation tied to phenolic content.
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[6] Chaves-López et al. (2018), PubMed record for “Potential of Borojoa patinoi Cuatrecasas water extract to inhibit nosocomial antibiotic resistant bacteria and cancer cell proliferation in vitro.”
Used for: reinforcing that some borojó-health literature is explicitly in vitro and cell-line based, not direct human outcome research.
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