Chemistry and safety of plant polyphenols

Author(s): Deshpande SS, Sathe SK, Salunkhe DK

Abstract

Phenolic compounds are widely distributed in plant kingdom and are considered to be secondary metabolites. They do not seem to be essential for plant life, at least at the cellular level. Plants provide nearly all the phenols found in higher animals, since the latter can not synthesize compounds with benzenoid rings from aliphatic precursors. The present discussion is mainly confined to polymeric phenols commonly found in cereals and legumes.

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