Effect of Storage and Domestic Processing on the Content and Composition of Flavonol Glucosides in Onion (Allium cepa)

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 938-942

  Price, Keith R ^a   Bacon, James R ^a   Rhodes, Michael J C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allium cepa; Flavonol; Glucoside; HPLC; Onion; Processing; Quercetin; Storage

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 0000647819     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf9605916     Document Type: Article

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