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Research Progress in Functional Activity of Theaflavins

LIU Wei,ZHOU Jie,GONG Zheng-li*   

  1. College of Food Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400716, China
  • Received:2012-03-21 Revised:2013-05-02 Online:2013-06-15 Published:2013-06-03

Abstract:

As an important tea natural product, theaflavins has wide application area and has bright development
future. Functional activity of theaflavins such as antioxidant, anti-cancer, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anticardiovascular
disease and nerve functional regulation was elaborated in this article, which will provide some scientific basis
for the exploitation of theaflavins.

Key words: theaflavins, natural product, functional activity

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