Food & Function Blog

Food & Function Issue 5 is now online; you can read the full issue here. 

The front cover features ‘Fruit juice-induced endothelium-dependent relaxations in isolated porcine coronary arteries: evaluation of different fruit juices and purees and optimization of a red fruit juice blend’ by Cyril Auger and co-workers in France and Germany.  This article received extensive media coverage globally upon publication of the advance article.

The review ‘Inhibition of advanced glycation endproduct formation by foodstuffs’ by Gow-Chin Yen and co-workers in Taiwan is highlighted on the inside front cover.

You can read these and all other articles in Food & Function for free until the end of 2011.

This month sees the following articles in Food & Function that are in the top ten most accessed:-

The potential role of milk-derived peptides in cardiovascular disease 
Martha Phelan and David Kerins 
Food Funct., 2011, 2, 153-167 DOI: 10.1039/C1FO10017C  

Anti-inflammatory activity of natural dietary flavonoids 
Min-Hsiung Pan, Ching-Shu Lai and Chi-Tang Ho 
Food Funct., 2010, 1, 15-31 DOI: 10.1039/C0FO00103A, Review 

Development of a simple model device for in vitro gastric digestion investigation 
Jianshe Chen, Vishwajeet Gaikwad, Melvin Holmes, Brent Murray, Malcolm Povey, Ye Wang and Ying Zhang 
Food Funct., 2011, 2, 174-182 DOI: 10.1039/C0FO00159G, Paper 

Inhibition of advanced glycation endproduct formation by foodstuffs 
Chi-Hao Wu, Shang-Ming Huang, Jer-An Lin and Gow-Chin Yen 
Food Funct., 2011, 2, 224-234 DOI: 10.1039/C1FO10026B  

Identification of H2O2 as a major antimicrobial component in coffee 
Ulla Mueller, Tanja Sauer, Ingrid Weigel, Rohtraud Pichner and Monika Pischetsrieder 
Food Funct., 2011, 2, 265-272 DOI: 10.1039/C0FO00180E  

Expression of carotenoid biosynthetic pathway genes and changes in carotenoids during ripening in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) 
Kanakapura Krishnamurthy Namitha, Surya Narayana Archana and Pradeep Singh Negi 
Food Funct., 2011, 2, 168-173 DOI: 10.1039/C0FO00169D, Paper 

Antiproliferative mechanisms of quercetin in rat activated hepatic stellate cells 
Li-chen Wu, In-wei Lu, Chi-Fu Chung, Hsing-Yu Wu and Yi-Ting Liu 
Food Funct., 2011, 2, 204-212 DOI: 10.1039/C0FO00158A, Paper 

Normalization genes for quantitative RT-PCR in differentiated Caco-2 cells used for food exposure studies 
Robert A. M. Vreeburg, Shanna Bastiaan-Net and Jurriaan J. Mes 
Food Funct., 2011, 2, 124-129 DOI: 10.1039/C0FO00068J, Paper 

Habitual coffee and tea drinkers experienced increases in blood pressure after consuming low to moderate doses of caffeine; these increases were larger upright than in the supine posture 
Michael K. McMullen, Julie M. Whitehouse, Gillian Shine and Anthony Towell 
Food Funct., 2011, 2, 197-203 DOI: 10.1039/C0FO00166J  

Phenolic tyrosinase inhibitors from the stems of Cudrania cochinchinensis 
Zong-Ping Zheng, Qin Zhu, Chun-Lin Fan, Hui-Yuan Tan and Mingfu Wang 
Food Funct., 2011, 2, 259-264 DOI: 10.1039/C1FO10033E  

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