Flavonoids and
other phenolic compounds in Andean indigenous grains: Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), kaniwa (Chenopodium pallidicaule) and kiwichi (Amaranthus caudatus).
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).
Not exact matches
Therefore we can conclude that a greater quantity of
phenolic compounds will be provided by consumption of steamed broccoli as compared with broccoli prepared by
other cooking processes.
The authors speculated that the anthocyanins most likely reacted with
other phenolic phytonutrients in the blueberries (resulting in the creation of new
compounds) or were simply degraded through oxidation.
The plants that we use as food and feed contain a wide variety of plant - produced chemicals such as anthocyanins, glucosinolates, isoflavones, terpenoids, and
phenolic compounds (Ames and
others 1990, Baxter and Borevitz 2006, Hartmann 2007, Morant and
others 2008).
From their previous studies, the researchers knew that some foods worked better than
others to neutralize garlic breath, and they theorized that two separate factors are responsible:
Phenolic compounds, which are antioxidants found in fruits and vegetables; and enzymes, which are proteins that help speed up chemical reactions.
This study only looked at the
phenolic compounds and enzymes in four specific foods, but Barringer notes that there are many
others that have potential as odor neutralizers, too.
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.
In addition to chlorogenic acid, they found 13
other phenolic acids present at significantly varying levels in the commercial cultivars, although chlorogenic acid was the predominant
phenolic compound in all of them.
Researchers have also found the
phenolic acids in asparagus significantly increase the effectiveness of detoxifying enzymes that facilitate the removal of drugs and
other toxic
compounds.
Mustard greens, like
other Brassica vegetables, contain
phenolic compounds that give them antioxidant properties (24, 32).
Other constituents include
phenolic compounds, fatty acids (linoleic, linolenic, palmitic, oleic, and myristic acids), formic and butyric acids, coumarins, phytosterols, and essential oils [8].
Other studies support that the combined antioxidant activity of kale's
phenolic compounds increases the cellular levels of the super antioxidant powerhouse glutathione.
In fact, it's estimated that the total antioxidant activity of 100 grams of raw apple is equivalent to the antioxidant activity of 1500 mg (2500 % of the RDA) of vitamin C. Apples are also especially high in free
phenolic compounds, meaning that the antioxidants are not bound to
other compounds in the fruit and are thus absorbed very efficiently into your bloodstream where they travel to your acne.