Sentences with phrase «more phenolic compounds»

The results were very impressive: organic tomatoes contained 139 % more phenolic compounds, 55 % more vitamin C and 70 % more yellow flavonoids and anthocyanins (a class of antioxidants).

White wine — widely considered to be inferior to red wine, and the research backs it up; red wine contain 5 - 10 times more phenolic compounds than the average white.

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This is why raw foods were generally more effective because they contain both the enzymes and the phenolic compounds.

The molecules come from phenolic, or aromatic, compounds, Henderson says, and robust food sources include those that we more often hear are rich in antioxidants: coffee, tea, colorful berries, red wine and dark chocolate.

But, the good news is that coffee has such high concentrations of beneficial antioxidants, phenolic nutrients, chlorogenic acids, and other healthy compounds, that it more than counteracts any bad compounds.

Fruit and vegetables may reduce chronic diseases and more specifically, coronary heart disease (CHD), 5 by means of their protective constituents such as potassium, folate, vitamins, fiber, and other phenolic compounds (1).

There are two pivotal points: (i) Firmicutes possess a disproportionately smaller number of glycan - degrading enzymes than Bacteroidetes, (ii) Firmicutes are more repressed than the Bacteroidetes by phenolic compounds» antimicrobial properties.

The Bacteroidetes community prevails following dietary polyphenol intake and its fermentation to phenolic compounds, due to having more glycan - degrading enzymes, so this may thus be a mechanism by which dietary polyphenols exert their weight lowering effect.

Food diaries were used to assess compliance, which helped researchers more accurately measure the efficacy of the phenolic - rich compounds in the Montmorency tart cherry concentration intervention.

Phenolics are perhaps the most studied class of phytochemical compounds and more and more evidence is constantly emerging that suggests the health benefits of fruits and vegetables are attributed to the additive and synergistic interactions of these bioactive compounds.

Professor Nathalie Tufenkji of McGill University of Montreal and her team found that combining phenolic compounds from maple syrup extract with antibiotics made them more effective against bacteria.