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Effects of cocoa powder and dark chocolate on LDL oxidative susceptibility and prostaglandin concentrations in humans
Ying Wan,Joe A. Vinson,Terry D. Etherton,John Proch,Sheryl A. Lazarus,Penny M. Kris-Etherton +5 more
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Cocoa powder and dark chocolate may favorably affect cardiovascular disease risk status by modestly reducing LDL oxidation susceptibility, increasing serum total antioxidant capacity and HDL-cholesterol concentrations, and not adversely affecting prostaglandins.About:
This article is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 2001-11-01. It has received 342 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dark chocolate & Oxygen radical absorbance capacity.read more
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Investigating the inhibitory activity of green coffee and cacao bean extracts on pancreatic lipase
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of green coffee bean extract and Theobroma cacao bean extract on pancreatic lipase activity in vitro were investigated and it was shown that green coffee beans extract produced a J-shaped dose-dependent inhibition of pancreatic Lipase with the percentage inhibition of lipase ranging from 11.8% to 61.5%.
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Hypolipidemic, hepato-protective and renal damage recovering effects of catechin isolated from the methanolic extract of Cassia fistula stem bark on Streptozotocin-induced diabetic Wistar rats: a biochemical and morphological analysis
TL;DR: Results of this experimental study indicated that catechin possessed hypolipidemic, hepato-protective, and renal damage restoring efficacies, and hence, this could be used as an oral drug for treating diabetes and related diseases.
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The effect of cocoa consumption on markers of oxidative stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies.
TL;DR: The concept that cocoa consumption plays an important role in the human metabolic pathway through reducing the oxidative stress is supported, with the pooled estimate from the random-effect model showing cocoa consumption significantly reduced malondialdehyde.
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Cocoa-based food products
TL;DR: In this article, a carotenoid compound was used in reducing elevated total cholesterol, triglycerides and inflammatory damage, as well as improving tissue microcirculation and tissue oxygenation.
Functional foods and nutraceuticalswith special focus on mother and child care
TL;DR: Ayurveda as a way of life and habits is the most ideally suited systems to inspire a discovery path to nutraceuticals, which will add a newer dimension to functional food science as having great potential for the development of new food science, technology and industry.
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Protein Measurement with the Folin Phenol Reagent
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Estimation of the Concentration of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Plasma, Without Use of the Preparative Ultracentrifuge
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Continuous monitoring of in vitro oxidation of human low density lipoprotein.
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Polyphenolic Flavanols as Scavengers of Aqueous Phase Radicals and as Chain-Breaking Antioxidants
N. Salah,Nicholas J. Miller,George Paganga,Lilian B. M. Tijburg,G.P. Bolwell,Catherine Rice-Evans +5 more
TL;DR: Against propagating lipid peroxyl radical species, epicatechin and catechin are as effective as ECG and EGCG, the least efficacious being EGC and GA.