review · Food Science & Nutrition
Rambutan is rich in dietary fibres, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidant compounds. Bioactive elements are found across the entire fruit, including its pulp and non-edible parts such as peels and seeds. These components demonstrate broad therapeutic value, with noted anticancer, antiallergic, antiobesity, antidiabetic, antimicrobial, antihypercholesterolemic, and antihyperglycemic effects. In addition, fruit extracts exhibit protective properties for both the heart and liver. Using the fruit and its by-products offers potential for the formulation of functional foods and pharmaceutical products. However, real-world industrial uptake requires further investigation into the nutritional potential, functional characteristics, and underlying therapeutic mechanisms of the fruit.
Fruit processing often discards peels and seeds, creating agricultural waste. Demonstrating that whole rambutan fruit, including its non-edible parts, contains valuable compounds with diverse medicinal properties opens opportunities to convert agricultural by-products into health-promoting products, supporting sustainable nutrition and preventative healthcare.
Rambutan and its by-products could be used by pharmaceutical and food processing companies to develop functional foods, medications, and nutraceutical products. This research remains at an early review stage, as further phytochemical screening, mechanistic analysis, and functional evaluations are explicitly required before these applications can achieve commercial or industrial use.
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L.) with its significant nutritional and bioactive compositions offers therapeutic properties such as anticancer, antiallergic, antiobesity, antidiabetic, antimicrobial, antihypercholesterolemic, and antihyperglycemic. Rambutan is high in antioxidants, dietary fibers, and vitamins and minerals. Its parts including fruit peel, pulp, and seed are a great source of bioactive compounds. Rambutan fruit extracts have been found to have cardioprotective and hepatoprotective properties. This review provides an insight into the nutritional as well as therapeutic value, health potential, and utilization of rambutan fruit along with its nonedible parts (seeds and peels). Advanced research and phytochemical screening would also encourage the rambutan fruit as a viable choice for the preparation of medications and functional foods. However, it is necessary to further analyze the functional aspects and nutritional potential of this fruit along with the therapeutic mechanisms and to improve its industrial use as a nutraceutical and functional food product.
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DOI: 10.1002/fsn3.3379
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