Table 2.

Different biofunctional properties of acerola

Biological activities	Extract used	Model system	References
Antihyperglycemic effect	Crude polyphenolic extract	Glucose uptake in Caco-2 cell and glucose and maltose uptake in ICR mice	Hanamura et al. (2006)
Antigenotoxicity activity	Lyophilized acerola pulp diluted in water	Comet assay	Nunes et al. (2011)
Antimicrobial activity	Phenolic extract of acerola	Staphylococcus aureus	Delva and Goodrich-Schneider (2013)
Anticarcinogenic activity	Acerola cherry extract (dry powder of acerola suspended in saline)	Lung tumorigenesis in mice	Nagamine et al. (2002)
Hepatoprotective effect	Acerola juice	Female swiss mice	Rochette et al. (2013)
Skin lightening effect	Crude polyphenol concentrated extract	UVB-irradiated skin pigmentation Melanin content in B 16 melanoma cells	Hanamura et al. (2008)
Radioprotective effect	Fruit juice	Bone marrow cells of Wistar rats	Dusman et al. (2014)
Multidrug reversal activity	Purified solvent extracts of acerola	Mouse lymphomas-5178 cells	Motohashi et al. (2004)
Inhibition of sugar catabolic enzyme	Aceronidin	Alpha–glucosidase and alpha amylase inhibition assay	Kawaguchi et al. (2007)
Prevention of hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia in diabetic dams	Acerola juice	Diabetic and nondiabeticWistar rats	Barbalho et al. (2011)