Bioactive ingredients: Antioxidants and polyphenols in tea

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue 11 II, 1996, Pages

  Dreosti, Ivor E ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATECHIN; CHOLESTEROL; EPICATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; GALLOCATECHIN; POLYPHENOL;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; TEA;

EID: 0030436291     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1996.tb03819.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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