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Flavan 3-ols improve metabolic syndrome risk factors: evidence and mechanisms

Flavan 3-ols, a type of polyphenolic substance, are distributed in a number of plant foods. Of these foods, chocolate is very rich in flavan 3-ols as flavan 3-ol monomers, (+)-catechin and (−)-epicatechin, and the oligomers as procyanidins. There is evidence that cacao products containing flavan 3-o...

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Autor principal: Osakabe, Naomi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: the Society for Free Radical Research Japan 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3652297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23704807
http://dx.doi.org/10.3164/jcbn.12-130