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isoflavone

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i·so·fla·vone (s-flvn)
n.
A flavonoid found in soy.
isoflavone
3-phenyl-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one; many of the naturally occurring estrogenic substances in pasture plants are isoflavones.
isoflavone
Nutrition Any of a family–eg, genistein, daidzen, of phytoestrogens in peanuts, beans, soy beans, lentils, that are carcinoprotective and ↓ ASHD. Cf Genistein, Nutraceutical, Soy, Textured vegetable protein.


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The direct cardiovascular health benefit of soy protein or isoflavone supplements is minimal at best," its Nutrition Committee concluded.
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In the previous experiments using menopausal-model rats, the two partners confirmed that cyanidin-3-glucoside, a kind of anthocyanins, and a soybean isoflavone daidzein suppress the abdominal adiposity.
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Genistein, the major isoflavone in soy, exhibits mixed estrogen agonist and antagonist properties (Price and Fenwick 1985), inhibits tyrosine kinase (Akiyama et al.
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