ACS Symposium #701: Functional Foods for Disease Prevention 1: Fruits, Vegetables, and Teas

This book contains perspectives on the role of functional foods in the prevention of various human diseases, and this first volume of two focuses on the role fruit, vegetables, and teas play in prevention. The book contains the latest scientific research and the impact of this research on policy and regulation of functional foods.

The first of two volumes emerging from an April 1997 symposium in San Francisco, the other covering medicinal plants and other foods. After overviews, the 23 papers cover foods in the three groups that, along with related compounds, are used to fight cancer, aging, and other conditions. Among specific discussions are the prevention of cancer, carotenoids as a promising factor for functional foods, anti-fatigue effects of yiegin, and tea catechin and its metabolites as bioantioxidants.
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This book contains perspectives on the role of functional foods in the prevention of various human diseases, and this first volume of two focuses on the role fruit, vegetables, and teas play in prevention. The book contains the latest scientific research and the impact of this research on policy and regulation of functional foods.

Preface

Contents (Volume II)

Perspective and Overview

1. The Prevention of Cancer, Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold

2. Glucosinolates, Myrosinase, and Isothiocyanates: Three Reasons for Eating Brassica Vegetables, Jed W. Fahey, Katherine K. Stephenson, and Paul Talalay

3. Chemoprevention of Colon Cancer by Select Phytochemicals, B. S. Reddy

4. Lycopene and Cancer: an Overview, Joseph Levy et al.

5. Mechanisms of Phytochemical Inhibition of Carcinogenesis: Elucidating the Role of Gamma-Tocopherol in Nutrition, T.S. Burnett et al.

Fruits and Related Compounds

5. Mechanisms of Phytochemical Inhibition of Carcinogenesis: Elucidating the Role of Gamma-Tocopherol in Nutrition, T. S. Burnett et al.

7. Metabolism of Dietary Carotenoids and Their Potential Role in Prevention of Cancer and Age-Related Macular Degeneration, F. Khachik, L.A. Cohen, and Z. Zhao

7. Metabolism of Dietary Carotenoids and Their Potential Role in Prevention of Cancer and Age-Related Macular Degeneration, F. Khachik, L. A. Cohen, and Z. Zhao

8. Auraptene, an Alkyloxylated Coumarin from Citrus natsudaidai HAYATA, Inhibits Mouse Skin Tumor Promotion and Rat Colonic Aberrant Crypt Foci Formation, Akira Murakami et al.

10. Antitumor Activity of Emblica officinalis Gaertn Fruit Extract, P. Sur et al.

10. Antitumor Activity of Emblica officinalis Gaertn Fruit Extract, Pratima Sur et al.

11. Beneficial Effect of Moderate Alcohol Consumption to Health: a Review of Recent Results on Wines, Michikatsu Sato

12. Anti-Fatigue Effects of Yiegen, S. Yan, J. Zhou, and H. Ochi

12. Anti-Fatigue Effects of Yiegin, Shiyun Yan, Jiyan Zhou, and Hirotomo Ochi

13. A Potent Antioxidative and Anti-UV-B Isoflavonoids Transformed Microbiologically from Soybean Components, Akio Mimura, Shin-ichi Yazaki, and Hiroshi Tanimura

14. Soy Isoflavones in Foods: Database Development, Patricia A. Murphy, Kobita Barua, and Tongtong Song

16. The Color Stability and Antioxidative Activity of an Anthocyanin and Gamma-cyclodextrin Complex, H. Tamura et al.

16. The Color Stability and Antioxidative Activity of an Anthocyanin and Gamma-cyclodextrin Complex, Hirotoshi Tamura et al.

17. Inhibitory Effect of Flavonoids on Lipoxygenase-Dependent Lipid Peroxidation of Human Plasma Lipoproteins, J. Terao et al.

Tea and Related Compounds

19. Antitumor Effect of Green Tea on Rat Urinary Bladder Tumor Induced N-Butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl) Nitrosamine, M. Matsushima and D. Sato

19. Antitumor Effect of Green Tea on Rat Urinary Bladder Tumor Induced N-Butyl-N-(4-hydroxybutyl) nitrosamine, M. Matsushima and D. Sato

21. Tea Catechin (EGCG) and its Metabolites as Bioantioxidants, I. Tomita et al.

21. Tea Catechin (EGCG) and Its Metabolites as Bioantioxidants, I. Tomita et al.

23. Modulation of Mitotic Signal Transduction by Curcumin and Tea Polyphenols and Their Implication for Cancer Chemoprevention, J.-K. Lin et al.

23. Modulation of Mitotic Signal Transduction by Curcumin and Tea Polyphenols and Their Implication for Cancer Chemoprevention, Jen-Kun Lin et al.

Indexes

Author Index

Subject Index