Licorice Flavonoids

Nutrigenomics and Proteomics in Health and Disease: Food Factors and Gene Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 291-300

  Honda, Shinichi ^a   Tominaga, Yuji ^a   Yokota, Shinichi ^a  

^a KANEKA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Efficacy and safety of LFO in clinical studies; Japan and China licorice root and extracts used as herbal medicines or as sweetening agents; LFO, a new functional food ingredient licorice hydrophobic polyphenolic flavonoids with medium chain triglycerides (MCT); Licorice triterpenes and phenolic constituents; Licorice flavonoid oil (LFO); Licorice flavonoids; Root of G. glabra containing glabridin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889446141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813807263.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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