Several culinary and medicinal herbs are important sources of dietary antioxidants

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1286-1290

  Dragland, Steinar ^a   Senoo, Haruki ^b   Wake, Kenjiro ^c   Holte, Kari ^d   Blomhoff, Rune ^d  

^a Apelsvold Research Station Div Kise   (Norway)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Minophagen Pharmaceutical Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Herbs; Humans; Oxidative stress; Reductants

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; GLYCYRRHIZIC ACID; PEPPERMINT; REDUCING AGENT; SCUTELLARIAE RADIX; STRONGER NEO MINOPHAGEN C;

ALLSPICE; ARTICLE; BERRY; CEREAL; CHINESE HERB; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CINNAMON; CLOVE; DIETARY INTAKE; FRUIT; HERB; LEMON; OREGANO; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SAGE; THYME; VEGETABLE;

CINNAMOMUM VERUM; CITRUS LIMON; MENTHA X PIPERITA; ORIGANUM VULGARE; PIMENTA DIOICA; SALVIA; SYZYGIUM AROMATICUM; THYMUS VULGARIS;

EID: 0038708240     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/133.5.1286     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Davidson, A. (1999) The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
2. Hacskaylo, M. M. (1996) Culinary garden. In: The National Herb Garden Guidebook (Ober, R., ed.) pp. 79-93. The Herb Society of America, Springfield, VA.
3. Smith, R. J. & Winder, M. L. (1996) Medicinal garden. In: The National Herb Garden Guidebook (Ober, R., ed.) pp. 61-71. The Herb Society of America, Springfield, VA.
4. Velioglu, Y. S., Mazza, G., Gao, L. & Oomah, B. D. (1998) Antioxidant activity and total phenolics in selected fruits, vegetables, and grain products. J. Agric. Food Chem. 46: 4113-4117.
5. Larson, R. A. (1988) The antioxidants of higher plants. Phytochemistry 27:969-978.
6. Kähkönen, M. P., Hopia, A. I., Vuorela, H. J., Rauha, J., Pihlaja, K., Kujala, T. S. & Heinonen, M. (1999) Antioxidant activity of plant extracts containing phenolic compounds. J. Agric. Food Chem. 47: 3954-3962.
7. Miller, N. J. & Rice-Evans, C. A. (1996) Spectrophotometric determination of antioxidant activity. Redox Rep. 2: 161-168.
8. Benzie, I.F.F. & Strain, J. J. (1996) The ferric reducing ability of plasma (FRAP) as a measure of "antioxidant power": the FRAP assay. Anal. Biochem. 239: 70-76.
9. DeLange, R. J. & Glazer, A. N. (1989) Phycoerythrin fluorescence-based assay for peroxyl radicals: a screen for biologically relevant protective agents. Anal. Biochem. 177: 300-306.
10. Cao, G., Alessio, H. M. & Cutler, R. G. (1993) Oxygen-radical absorbance capacity assay for antioxidants. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 14: 303-311.
11. Halvorsen, B. L., Holte, K., Myhrstad, M.C.W., Barikmo, I., Hvattum, E., Fagertun Remberg, S., Wold, A. B., Haffner, K., Baugerød, H., Frost Andersen, L., Moskaug, J. Ø., Jacobs, D. R., Jr. & Blomhoff, B. (2002) A systematic screening of total antioxidants in dietary plants. J. Nutr. 132: 461-471.
12. Lee, K. G. & Shibamoto, T. (2002) Determination of antioxidant potential of volatile extracts isolated from various herbs and spices. J. Agric. Food Chem. 50: 4947-4952.
13. Mantle, D., Eddeb, F. & Pickering, A. T. (2000) Comparison of relative antioxidant activities of British medicinal plant species in vitro. J. Ethnopharmacol. 72: 47-51.
14. Zheng, W. & Wang, S. H. (2001) Antioxidant activity and phenolic compounds in selected herbs. J. Agric. Food Chem. 49: 5165-5170.
15. Oka, H., Yamamoto, S., Kuroki, T., Harihara, S., Marumo, T. & Kim, S. R. (1995) Prospective study of chemoprevention of hepatocellular carcinoma with Sho-saiko-to (TJ-9). Cancer 76: 743-749.
16. Shimizu, I., Ma, Y-R., Mizobuchi, Y., Liu, F., Miura, T., Nakai, Y., Yasuda, M., Shiba, M., Horie, T., Amagaya, S., Kawada, N., Hori, H. & Ito, S. (1999) Effects of Sho-saiko-to, a Japanese herbal medicine, on the hepatic fibrosis in rats. Hepatology 29: 149-160.
17. Sakaida, I., Matsumura, Y., Akiyama, S., Hayashi, K., Ishige, A. & Okita, K. (1998) Herbal medicine Sho-saiko-to (TJ-9) prevents liver fibrosis and enzymealtered lesions in rat liver cirrhosis induced by a choline-deficient L-amino aciddeficient diet. J. Hepatol. 28: 298-306.
18. Kumada, H. (2002) Long-term treatment of chronic hepatitis C with glycyrrhizin [Stronger Neo-Minophagen C (SNMC)] for preventing liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Oncology 62 (suppl. 1): 94-100.
19. Carlsen, H., Moskaug, J. Ø., Fromm, S. H. & Blomhoff, R. (2002) In vivo imaging of NF-κB activity. J. Immunol. 168: 1441-1446.