TY - CHAP AU - Alfredo Aires ED - Marcos Soto-Hernandez ED - Mariana Palma-Tenango ED - Maria del Rosario Garcia-Mateos Y1 - 2017-03-15 PY - 2017 T1 - Phenolics in Foods: Extraction, Analysis and Measurements N2 - Phenolic compounds as a large class of metabolites found in plants have attracted attention since long time ago due to their properties and the hope that they will show beneficial health effects when taken as dietary supplements. This book presents the state of the art of some of the natural sources of phenolic compounds, for example, medicinal plants, grapes or blue maize, as well as the modern methods of extraction, quantification, and identification, and there is a special section discussing the treatment, removal, and degradation of phenols, an important issue in those phenols derived from the pharmaceutical or petrochemical industries. BT - Phenolic Compounds SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/66889 DO - 10.5772/66889 SN - 978-953-51-2958-5 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -