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Stilbenoids in Grapes and Wine

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Handbook of Dietary Phytochemicals

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Stilbenoids are naturally occurring polyphenols, found in several edible plants, such as berries, peanuts, and grapes, which have been attracting increasing interest owing to their potential benefits for human health, namely, to prevent and treat chronic diseases related with aging. They can be constitutively expressed or biosynthesized as phytoalexins. Structurally characterized by a C6–C2–C6 scaffold, they can be found as monomers, dimers, trimers, or very complex oligomers. In this chapter, the focus will be on dietary stilbenoids found in the Vitis vinifera, namely, in grapes and wine, which are the principal dietary source of stilbenes. Among them, trans-resveratrol is the most extensively investigated stilbene. The main bioactive constituents, bioavailability and metabolism, the in vivo biological properties of the major constituents, and their role in human health, application in food, as well as issues related with safety and marketed and patented products will be also discussed.

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Duarte, N., Ramalhete, C., Rijo, P., Reis, M.A., Ferreira, MJ.U. (2020). Stilbenoids in Grapes and Wine. In: Xiao, J., Sarker, S., Asakawa, Y. (eds) Handbook of Dietary Phytochemicals. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1745-3_21-1

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