The beneficial effects of dietary flavonoids: Sources, bioavailability and biological functions

Health Benefits of Organic Food: Effects of the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 207-239

  Spencer, J P E ^a   Vauzour, D ^a   Vafeiadou, Katerina ^a   Rodriguez Mateos, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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