Objectives: Eriobotrya japonica belongs to the Rosaceae. Studies have shown that the flowers of this plant are rich in phenolic and flavonoid compounds. Accorrdingly, the evaluation of antioxidative effects of Eriobotrya japonica Flower Extract (EJFE) have been performed in vitro. Material and Methods: In this study, to investigate the influences of components of EJFE on its antioxidative activ...

BACKGROUND Due to the random and systematic measurement errors associated with current dietary assessment instruments, there is a need to develop more objective methods of measuring the intake of foods of importance to human health. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to test whether urinary excretion of flavonoids could be used to identify subjects who are meeting Norwegian recommendatio...

Flavones possessing prenyl substituents occur quite frequently in nature, so do those with 2 ,2 -dimethylpyran ring system [1,2]. Many of such py­ ranoflavones exhibit interesting biological activi­ ties. A health food, designed to prevent diseases, consisted of extracts of M orbus bombycis or relat­ ed plants (containing morusin (1 ) and/or its hy­ drate) [3]. Isopongaflavone (2) otherwise kno...