Sorghum flavonoids: Unusual compounds with promising implications for health

ACS Symposium Series

Volumn 1089, Issue , 2011, Pages 171-200

  Awika, Joseph M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROCESSING; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); HEALTH;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE; CEREAL GRAINS; HEALTH BENEFITS; HEALTH PERSPECTIVE; IN-VITRO; POTENTIAL HEALTH; PROANTHOCYANIDINS;

FLAVONOIDS;

EID: 84905592909     PISSN: 00976156     EISSN: 19475918     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1021/bk-2011-1089.ch009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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