Blueberries and health

Blueberry is a high value crop globally. Both wild and cultivated blueberries are commercially available to consumers. Although mostly consumed as fresh or frozen, dried also offered in the market. Yogurts, beverages, jams, jellies made with some of products popular consumers.Blueberries rich several health-beneficial phytochemicals including phenolic compounds vitamins. This article reviews health implications blueberry consumption. The review was limited research studies published peer-reviewed scientific journals. impact intake on cardiovascular functions, obesity, cancer, diabetes, cognitive performance, gut microbiota focus this review.This clearly revealed very broad benefits intake. However, it evident that topic scarce. Indeed, there only few effects majority investigations were carried out using animal models cell cultures. Scarcity size clinical field leave many questions about effect consumption human unanswered. Undoubtedly, need for large-scale controlled randomized epidemiological meta-analyses data from such research. would allow an in-depth understanding biological metabolic pathways involved disease mitigation treatment.Keywords: Blueberry, health, chemical composition, microbiota,