Abstract:
Conducted physico-chemical and biological studies of Goji berries and national products made it possible to obtain information on the bioavailability of nutrients included in the product, to evaluate their food value and nutritional value, and their functional orientation. The study of the processes of digestibility and absorption of the developed products on the gastric invitro model and the monolayer of the intestinal wall epithelium showed high absorption and assimilability of the low molecular weight (from 30 kDa and below) protein fraction of the studied product. The detected acceleration of the absorption of nutrients of the tested products was reflected positively on the dynamics of changes in the biochemical composition of the blood, which, in turn, will lead to an acceleration of the biocorrecting action of functional biologically active substances. As a result of the experiment it was established that Goji berries, characterized by high catalase activity, have a prominent antioxidant effect, helping to control free radical oxidation in the rat organism with hyperlipidemia by decrease of MDA concentration (to 30%) and improvement of blood serum antioxidant activity (to 40 %). A prominent hipolipidemic (lipid-lowering) effect of berries has been established, which consists in normalization of the blood serum lipid profile of rats with hyperlipidemia 28 days after the beginning of feeding (decrease in total cholesterol (by 1.5 times), low density lipoproteins (to 40%) and blood serum atherogenity index (by more than 50%) with increase of high-density lipoproteins (up to 45%).
