Flavonoids

Found in chocolate, cocoa, tea and wine.

Nothing to do with flavour.

Although commonly consumed in human and animal plant foods and in dietary supplements, flavonoids are not considered to be nutrients or biological antioxidants essential to body functions, and have no established effects on human health or prevention of diseases - wikipedia

anti-oxidative
anti-inflammatory
anti-mutagenic
anti-carcinogenic properties
capacity to modulate key cellular enzyme function

Research on flavonoids received an added impulse with the discovery of the low cardiovascular mortality rate and also prevention of CHD: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5465813/

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Created: 2026-06-28

Last Updated: 2026-06-28