**Acknowledgements**

**Common name Scientific**

Arrayán *Luma*

Chañar, chañal *Geoffroea*

Maqui *Aristotelia*

Cauchao (from Meli or White Luma tree)

Chequén, Arrayán blanco,

Chilean

Murtilla de Magallanes, brecillo, uvilla

Murta, murtilla, Murta blanca, Tautau

Zarzaparrilla, parrilla, uvilla, mulul, milul, Chilean currant

Zarzaparrilla, parrilla, Chilean currant

strawberry, wild strawberry

**name**

*Luma chequen*

*apiculata*

*Fragaria chiloensis*

*decorticans*

*chilensis*

*Empetrum rubrum*

*Ugni molinae*

*Ribes punctatum*, *Ribes cucullatum*, *Ribes magellanicum*,

*Ribes trilobum*

luma tree) platelet aggregation

*Amomyrtus meli*

**Attributed properties**

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Antioxidant, antibacterial

Antioxidant, antibacterial, inhibit platelet aggregation (anticoagulant effect)

Antioxidant, free radical scavenging activity, anticancer cell Proliferation properties (human lung epithelial cancer cells

Antioxidant, antinoceptive, antiinflammatory activities;

antitussive and expectorant significant effect, antibacterial

Antioxidant, vasodilator activity, antibacterial

Antioxidant, cytoprotective effect in human gastric cells

Antioxidant, cytoprotective effect in human gastric cells

Inhibidor de la enzima xantina oxidasa (sintomatología de la gota); antimicrobial activity (wound treatment); in vitro and in vivo antidiabetic effects, antibacterial activity, cardioprotective effects, antioxidant

(anticoagulant effect), antibacterial

**Description References**

The fruit is whitish or pale pink [134–139]

[112, 113, 132]

[112, 113, 133]

[105, 112, 125, 131, 133]

[140–142]

[82, 83, 86, 88, 90, 103, 143– 146]

[109]

[106]

[83, 99, 103, 112, 113, 147–149]

diameter, generally with 3 seeds, about

The fruit is a black or purplish black Berry, 5–8 mm in diameter, generally with 3 seeds, about 3–4.5 mm

purple, about 1 cm in diameter

Berry rounded black fruit, about 1.3–1.5 cm. diameter, containing three

The berry-like fruit is a drupe, ovoid, red-brown when ripe, about 1.7–3.5 cm to 1.5 cm. The pulp is white-yellowish

The fruit is a small fleshy edible berry (green when unripe and purple black

and has 1 or 2 seeds

when ripe), about 5 mm, with 2–4 seeds

–8 mm in diameter, dark red

The fruit is a bright red berry, around 5–15 mm in diameter

Fruits are red, black, or green [104, 106]

The fruit is initially green and becomes

glossy black when ripe

Antioxidant Globose and fleshy fruit, about

3–4.5 mm

Antioxidant The berry-like fruit (drupe) is a dark

seeds

The authors would like to thank the Regional Innovation Fund for Competitiveness, ID 30126395-0 Región del Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins; UC-VRI interdisciplinary project N°13, 2014; to CONICYT Fellowship National Doctoral - Operating expenses N° 21110822; to Program Attraction and Integration of Advanced Human Capital (PAI-CONICYT) Doctoral Thesis in Business N° 781412002.
