Renewed interest in soy isoflavones and saponins

Cereal Foods World

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 414-417

  Arditi, T ^a   Meredith, T ^a   Flowerman, P ^b  

^a Solbar Plant Extracts   (Israel)

^b PL Thomas and Co   (United States)

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