Advances in grain sorghum and its co-products as a human health promoting dietary system

Food Research International

Volumn 77, Issue , 2015, Pages 349-359

  Althwab, Sami ^a   Carr, Timothy P ^a   Weller, Curtis L ^a   Dweikat, Ismail M ^a   Schlegel, Vicki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional food; Grain sorghum; Health properties; Phenolic compounds; Policosanols; Sterols

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; LIPIDS; NUTRITION; PHENOLS;

GRAIN SORGHUM; HEPATIC GLUCONEOGENESIS; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS; PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS; POLICOSANOLS; RAPID URBANIZATIONS; STEROLS;

FUNCTIONAL FOOD;

EID: 84949091644     PISSN: 09639969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2015.08.011     Document Type: Review

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