Understanding the Native Californian diet: Identification of condensed and hydrolyzable tannins in tanoak acorns (Lithocarpus densiflorus)

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 7686-7691

  Meyers, Katherine J ^a   Swiecki, Tedmund J ^b   Mitchell, Alyson E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Phytosphere Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Acorn; Antioxidant; Condensed tannin; Hydrolyzable tannin; Lithocarpus densiflorus; Phenolic; Procyanidins

Indexed keywords

TANNIN DERIVATIVE;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FAGACEAE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIET; FAGACEAE; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; SEEDS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANNINS;

COTYLEDON (GENUS); LITHOCARPUS; LITHOCARPUS DENSIFLORUS; QUERCUS;

EID: 33750438051     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf061264t     Document Type: Article

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