Talk:Oligomeric proanthocyanidin

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Moved page from "Oligomeric proanthrocyanidin", which is a misspelling. Securiger 12:40, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] References?

This particular article really needs its references; because there are a lot of people like me wanting to know more about OPC; before purchasing grossly expensive products offered by companies like Isotonix -- I want to know that the claims supported by these companies which I am supporting have any truth in them.

[edit] Inconsistencies

This article is inconsistent. It claims at one point that OPCs do not occur in grape seed extract and then later on seems to have copied some marketing blurb from somewhere stating that it is indeed in grape seed extract. Looking at DrDukes Phytochemical database I can only see evidence of the fruits and skins of grapes containing "procyanidins" (OPCs?) and no association between the seeds and "procyanidins" (OPCs?). The article seems to deteriate in quality from where the hyperlinks stop.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Drdobbin (talk • contribs) 23:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Merger proposal

I am replacing the PROD tag with a Merge tag, since the problems of the current article notwithstanding, (i) there seems to be e need to have some information about OPC and (ii) I found the already existing article Proanthocyanidin that also refers to OPC. Beyond having at least a redirect from either keyword, I have no opinion on the merge. --Tikiwont 09:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Even though technically OPC describes more precisely the chemical functionality the terms more widely used are Procyanidin and proanthocyanidin. Thus pointing to NOT merging being a better option. Nevertheless, the corrections pointed out and the need for consistency remain.