Phytochemicals in Teas and Tisanes and their Bioavailability

Teas, Cocoa and Coffee: Plant Secondary Metabolites and Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 45-98

  Clifford, Michael N ^a   Crozier, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Camellia based teas; Chinese green tea, var sinensis; Green tea, flavan 3 ol monomers; Green, semi fermented teas; Japanese type, hybrid leaf; Pathways, colonic catabolism; Pigs, ingesting honeybush tea; Teas and tisane phytochemicals; Teas, bioavailability; Transformation products

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888672040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347098.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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