Daily cocoa intake reduces the susceptibility of low-density lipoprotein to oxidation as demonstrated in healthy human volunteers

Free Radical Research

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 93-99

  Osakabe, Naomi ^a   Baba, Seigo ^a   Yasuda, Akiko ^a   Iwamoto, Tamami ^b   Kamiyama, Masumi ^c   Takizawa, Toshio ^b   Itakura, Hiroshige ^c   Kondo, Kazuo ^c  

^a MEIJI SEIKA KAISHA LTD   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION   (Japan)

^c OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cocoa powder; Diene; Human volunteers; LDL; Oxidation; Polyphenols

Indexed keywords

2,2' AZOBIS(4 METHOXY 2,4 DIMETHYL VALERONITRILE); ALKADIENE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; COPPER ION; EPICATECHIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; POLYPHENOL; SUGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALERONITRILE;

ABSORPTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CACAO; CONJUGATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIPID OXIDATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POWDER; TIME; URINARY EXCRETION; VOLUNTEER;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 0035117312     PISSN: 10715762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10715760100300091     Document Type: Article

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