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Nutraceutical evaluation of honeysuckle cultivars from the Botanical Garden of Vytautas Magnus University Scientists at Vytautas Magnus University and Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania) have evaluated 11 cultivars of blue honeysuckle ( Lonicera caerulea L.) for bioactive compounds, antioxidant capacity, and the antibacterial activity of berries. The honeysuckle cultivars evaluated (‘Eisbar’, ‘ˇCelnoˇcnaja’, ‘Balalaika’, ‘Pereselenka’, ‘Vos-torg’, ‘Morena’, ‘Pavlovskaja’, ‘Nimfa’, ‘Kalinka’, ‘Obilnaja’, and ‘Leningradskaja’) were selected from the genetic resource collection of the Botanical Garden of Vytautas Magnus University. In general, the results suggest that berries of the studied 11 blue honey-suckle cultivars present themselves as rich potential food sources with health-promoting properties, and that differences in the contents of bioactive compounds as well as antioxidant and antibacterial activities are ....