期刊
BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
卷 102, 期 11, 页码 1552-1556出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114509990857
关键词
Equol; Formononetin; Bovine milk; Isoflavones; Phyto-oestrogens; Red clover
资金
- Mercedes Zachariassen Foundation, Finland [4700752, 4700754]
- Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and National Emergency Supply Agency in Finland
The intake of isoflavones and the resulting equol contents of both plasma and milk of the same red clover-fed cows are reported for the first time in cyclic change-over design study. Cows were fed four different red clover silages and two timothy-meadow fescue silages as controls. The red clover silages contained daidzein, formononetin, biochanin A and genistein, whereas the timothy-meadow fescue silages contained no isoflavones. We found a strong association (v = 0.071x + 2.75, R-2 0.71) between the formononetin intake (x) and equol concentration (y) in the plasma, while the formononetin intake and milk equol concentration were weakly associated (y = 0.0035x + 0.358 R-2 0.20). This means that a small part of the total formononetin in the silage is secreted into milk as equol. The mean equol contents in plasma and milk of cows fed red clover silage diets were in the range of 4.6-8.4 mg/l and 458-643 mu g/l, respectively, while the respective values for the control diets were in the range of 0.8- 1.5 mg/l and 171-287 mu g/l. We showed that shorter growing periods of red clover resulted in higher silage formononetin contents and plasma and milk equol contents, suggesting that the equol content of milk can be manipulated by varying the harvesting strategy of red clover. We conclude that milk equol is derived from the formononetin of red clover silage and that milk from red clover-fed cows can be considered as a source of equol in human nutrition.
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