Potential health benefits of rhubarb

Bioactive Foods in Promoting Health

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 407-423

  Clementi, Elisabetta M ^a   Misiti, Francesco ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anthraquinones; Anti oxidants; Laxative.; Rhaponticin; Rhapontigenin; Rhubarb roots; Tannins; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882541596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374628-3.00027-X     Document Type: Chapter

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