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Advances in Anthocyanin Research 2018
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ISBN: 3038975249 3038975230 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Anthocyanins are natural plant pigments, responsible for many of the orange/red/purple/blue colors of many flowers, fruits, and vegetables. These colorants play important roles in plants, such as conferring UV protection and antimicrobial properties, and they are also implicated to have many potential human health-promoting properties. Research works and epidemiological studies have indicated these plant pigments to be beneficial in the reduction of chronic inflammatory diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. For these reasons, there is increasing interest in their incorporation in foods, drugs, cosmetics, and dietary supplements as naturally derived colorants and health-promoting compounds. There is a large natural diversity in the chemical composition of anthocyanin pigments. More than 700 unique anthocyanin structures have been identified, and each has unique colorimetric, reactivity, and health-promoting properties. With such a great number of unique anthocyanins and increasing interest in their use, there is a considerable need to better understand the factors affecting their production and accumulation in plants, the factors affecting their stability and colorimetric properties, and their metabolism and mechanisms for disease alleviation. This Special Issue includes several new research works dedicated to these topics and a review of the current knowledge of anthocyanin chemistry affecting their application in food and nutrition.


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Biopharm international
ISSN: 19391862 1542166X

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Focus on alternative and complementary therapies

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Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies (FACT) is a review journal aiming to present the evidence on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in an analytical and impartial manner. The journal contains summaries and commentaries on key CAM areas, articles that review the evidence for and against CAM in a particular therapeutic area, interviews, editorials, news and book reviews. Tables of contents are available from 1996. Full-text is available to subscibers. A sample copy is available. FACT is edited by staff of the Complementary Medicine unit at the Peninsula Medical School in Exeter, and is published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Pharmaceutical Press.

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