Food & Function Blog

Issue 12 of Food & Function is now available to read online.

The front cover this month features work by Wei-Hsuan Hsu, Tzu-Ming Pan and co-workers from Taipei, Taiwan. In their work they investigate the effect of two active compounds which have been reported to inhibit pancreatic inflammation and improve insulin resistance, and which, taken together, have the potential to be developed as an anti-diabetic agent in the future.

Read the article in full – it’s free to access for the next six weeks:
Monacolin K and monascin attenuated pancreas impairment and hyperglycemia induced by advanced glycation endproducts in BALB/c mice
Wei-Hsuan Hsu, Si-Shi Lu, Bao-Hong Lee, Ya-Wen Hsu and Tzu-Ming Pan  
Food Funct., 2013,4, 1742-1750, DOI: 10.1039/C3FO60268K

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Here are the latest HOT papers in Food & Function, as recommended by the referees:

Effects of herbal infusions, tea and carbonated beverages on alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase activity
Sha Li, Li-Qin Gan, Shu-Ke Li, Jie-Cong Zheng, Dong-Ping Xu and Hua-Bin Li  
Food Funct., 2014, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3FO60282F

Chemopreventative effects of tetrahydrocurcumin on human diseases
Jia-Ching Wu, Mei-Ling Tsai, Ching-Shu Lai, Ying-Jan Wang, Chi-Tang Ho and Min-Hsiung Pan  
Food Funct., 2014, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3FO60370A

Short term and dosage influences of palm based medium- and long-chain triacylglycerols on body fat and blood parameters in C57BL/6J mice
Yee-Ying Lee, Teck-Kim Tang, Nur Azwani Ab Karim, Noorjahan Banu Mohamed Alitheen and Oi-Ming Lai 
Food Funct., 2014, Advance Article, DOI: 10.1039/C3FO60358J

All the papers listed above are free to access for the next 4 weeks!