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Potential Health Promoting Properties of Isoflavones, Saponins, Proanthocyanidins, and Other Phytonutrients in Pulses

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This chapter reviews the structure, concentration, absorption, and health promoting activities of phytonutrients in pulses. The phenolic phytonutrients in pulses include isoflavones, flavan-3-ols, proanthocyanidins, hydroxycinnamic acids, and flavanols. A major non-phenol phytonutrient is saponins. The bioactivities of pulse phytonutrients which may have a beneficial role in cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, inflammation, and neurodegenerative disease are summarized. Gaps of knowledge in the previous research are suggested and future research directions are proposed.

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Yagiz, Y., Gu, L. (2019). Potential Health Promoting Properties of Isoflavones, Saponins, Proanthocyanidins, and Other Phytonutrients in Pulses. In: Dahl, W. (eds) Health Benefits of Pulses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12763-3_8

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