With the growing demand for functional foods having better nutraceutical properties, lactic
acid bacteria (LAB) has become an important industrial microorganism. LAB play a …

Phytoestrogens are a class of plant produced polyphenolic compounds with diphenolic
structure, which is similar to 17β-estradiol. These phytoestrogens preferentially bind to …

Urolithins are microbial metabolites derived from ellagic acid by the action of intestinal
bacterial. Potential beneficial effects of urolithins A and B on certain types of cancer and on …

While polyphenol consumption is often associated with an increased abundance of
beneficial microbes and decreased opportunistic pathogens, these relationships are not …

Lignans are complex diphenolic compounds representing phytoestrogens and occur widely
across the plant kingdom. Formed by the coupling of two coniferyl alcohol residues, lignans …

Phytoestrogens (PE) are compounds found in plants such as soy (isoflavones), flax seeds
and cereals (lignans) and pomegranates (ellagitannins). PE have shown estrogenic …

Flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) is of interest as functional food because of the presence
of compounds in its composition with potential health benefits, such as fatty acid omega-3 …

Enterolignans, ie enterodiol and enterolactone, are polyphenols derived from the microbial
metabolism of dietary lignans. They are considered phytoestrogens because of their …

Lignans and flavonoids are found in plants in their glycosylated forms and need to be
hydrolyzed to aglycones to become bioavailable. Putative β-glucosidase genes from …

BACKGROUND Flax lignan has attracted much attention because of its potential
bioactivities. However, the bioavailability of secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (SDG), the main …