Liangchuan Guo

1 Introduction Haskap berry (Lonicera caerulea), also called blue honeysuckle, has a long history of use in traditional medicine in China, Japan, and northern Russia, where it has been valued for the management of various chronic disorders (Rupasinghe et al. 2012). This ethnomedicinal use has stimulated contemporary scientific interest in haskap berry as a functional food and source of bioactive compounds for chronic disease prevention and management.

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1 INTRODUCTION The blue honeysuckle belongs to Caprifoliaceae family and Lonicera L. genus and is distributed in Russia, China, Japan, Canada, America, Poland and other countries, but the development and research began in Russia in the 1950s (Gerbrandt, Bors, & Chibbar, 2018).