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MOLECULAR NUTRITION & FOOD RESEARCH
Volume 59, Issue 1, Pages 160-170Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201400494
Keywords
Food composition; Food processing; Phenol-Explorer database; Polyphenols; Retention factors
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- Wereld Kanker Onderzoek Fonds [WCRF NL 2012/604]
- Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral program from MEC (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad) [JCI-2012-13463]
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ScopeThe Phenol-Explorer web database () was recently updated with new data on polyphenol retention due to food processing. Here, we analyze these data to investigate the effect of different variables on polyphenol content and make recommendations aimed at refining estimation of intake in epidemiological studies. Methods and resultsData on the effects of processing upon 161 polyphenols compiled for the Phenol-Explorer database were analyzed to investigate the effects of polyphenol structure, food, and process upon polyphenol loss. These were expressed as retention factors (RFs), fold changes in polyphenol content due to processing. Domestic cooking of common plant foods caused considerable losses (median RF=0.45-0.70), although variability was high. Food storage caused fewer losses, regardless of food or polyphenol (median RF=0.88, 0.95, 0.92 for ambient, refrigerated, and frozen storage, respectively). The food under study was often a more important determinant of retention than the process applied. ConclusionPhenol-Explorer data enable polyphenol losses due to processing from many different foods to be rapidly compared. Where experimentally determined polyphenol contents of a processed food are not available, only published RFs matching at least the food and polyphenol of interest should be used when building food composition tables for epidemiological studies.
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