MINI REVIEW article
Front. Vet. Sci.
Sec. Animal Nutrition and Metabolism
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fvets.2025.1629447
This article is part of the Research TopicNatural Compounds/Products and Livestock Productivity: Enhancing Antioxidant Levels, Gut Health, Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Disease Control, Volume IIView all articles
Phytochemical Profile and Biological Activities of Caesalpinia coriaria Extract: A Review
Provisionally accepted
Moises Cipriano-Salazar1
Mohamed Z.M. Salem2Mona M M Y Elghandour3*
Maximilian Lackner4*
Abdelfattah Z. M. Salem5*- 1Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy
- 2Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
- 3Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
- 4University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria
- 5Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Guerrero, Mexico
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Caesalpinia coriaria (Jacq.) Willd (syn.: Libidibia coriaria (Jacq.) Schltdl.), a member of the Fabaceae family and the Caesalpinioideae subfamily, is commonly known in Mexican vernacular as "cascalote". Various botanical parts of this tree, such as leaves, pods, flowers, seeds, branches, and bark, have been studied due to their bioactivity and their astringent, antiparasitic, antiseptic, and anti-inflammatory properties. Extracts obtained from C. coriaria contain a wide range of bioactive compounds, including tannins, terpenoids, phenols, coumarins, quinones, flavonoids, saponins, carbohydrates, proteins, glycosides, cardiac glycosides, anthraquinones, steroids, and polyphenols. During the fattening phase in ruminants, these plant extracts may be used to reduce gastrointestinal parasitism, promote growth, and decrease drug residues in animal-derived products. This review aims to highlight the importance of the bioactivities of C. coriaria extracts and their active compounds. In vitro studies have demonstrated that the phenolic and flavonoid compounds present in this species inhibit bacterial growth by disrupting membrane integrity and enzymatic activity, often outperforming conventional antibiotics. In livestock production systems, the presence of pathogenic bacteria leads to significant economic losses; in this context, the use of polyphenolic compounds derived from C. coriaria may have a positive effect on animal productivity. Moreover, the extracts from this tree represent a promising source of bioactive compounds for various industrial applications.
Keywords: Caesalpinia coriaria, bioactive compounds, Antimicrobial activity, Antiparasitic activity, Plant Extracts, Polyphenols
Received: 15 May 2025; Accepted: 30 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Cipriano-Salazar, Salem, Elghandour, Lackner and Salem. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Mona M M Y Elghandour, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexico
Maximilian Lackner, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Abdelfattah Z. M. Salem, Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, Guerrero, Mexico
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