Analysis of flavanols in foods: What methods are required to enable meaningful health recommendations?

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2006, Pages

  Robbins, Rebecca J ^a   Kwik Uribe, Catherine ^a   Hammerstone, John F ^a   Schmitz, Harold H ^a  

^a MARS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Cardiovascular; Database; Flavanol; Flavonoid; Folin Ciocalteu; Food composition; High performance liquid chromatography; Methods of analysis; Oxygen radical absorbance capacity; Polyphenol; Proanthocyanidin; Procyanidin

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIDIN; CATECHIN; EPICATECHIN; EPICATECHIN GALLATE; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; FLAVANOL DERIVATIVE; FLAVANONE; FLAVONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOL; ISOFLAVONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DATA BASE; FOLIN CIOCALTEU ASSAY; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; OXYGEN RADICAL ABSORBANCE CAPACITY MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

BIFLAVONOIDS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATECHIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FLAVONOIDS; FOOD ANALYSIS; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HUMANS; MOLYBDENUM; PHENOLS; PROANTHOCYANIDINS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33750316402     PISSN: 01602446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005344-200606001-00004     Document Type: Article

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