Talk:Flavonoid
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Cleaned up, but still needs some work! LoopZilla 09:57, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Just Cocoa as flavonoid source?
Dark chocolate is touted as an excellent source of flavonoids as long as it is over 70-75% cocoa. I would like to see clarification on just Cocoa itself as a soure or clarification as to why it may not be if that is the case.
[edit] mention if related to flavors
Flavonoid sounds related to the word 'flavor', say if and how.
This doesn't seem to be true. Some quick searches on Google show that flavonoids are responsible for yellow, orange, and red coloring in some plants [1]; the words flavone and flavonoid come from the Latin flavus [2], generally translated as "yellow"[3]. Flavor, on the other hand, comes from the Latin flator[4].
[edit] flavonoids as antibiotics
Several sources seem to proclaim flavonoids as having antibiotic properties. Can anyone confirm and add to the article? Chilledsunshine 07:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
- Just about anything at a sufficient concentration has antibacterial properties =) However, I don't think there's any evidence of any practical value of flavonoids as antibiotics. -Techelf 09:18, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] check for a possiblle mistake, pls
In the paragraph "Proanthocyanidins", it says about OPCs' "decreasing capillary permeability and fragility". I think there may be an error - they increase capillary permeability and decrease fragility. I am not into Medicine, but what is there right now doesn't sound right. Right?
[edit] EGCG
with all the media hype there has been, i actually expected this to get its own article. despite that, even though EGCG redirects here it only gets a passing mention and no discussion of the validity of it being used to reduce weight. can anyone add to this? -Zappernapper 12:57, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Molecular structure of flavone is incorrect
It appears that the molecular structure of flavone is incorrect. There should be a carboxylic group in position 4 (as in pyrone). Could someone please check this and change the molecular structure if he/she knows how to do that?
- You are right. Actually that is the structure of 2-phenylbenzopyran
