Healthful Plant Nutrients Also Found In Meat And Milk - Journal Of Agricultural And Food Chemistry

Counterintuitive as it may seem, those healthful phytoestrogen nutrients that consumers usually associate with fruits and vegetables also exist in foods of animal origin. After all, “phyto” means “plant.” Now the first comprehensive study of phytoestrogen content in foods has identified the best sources of these nutrients. The study is scheduled for the November 26 issue of ACS’ bi-weekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. In the study, Gunter G. C.

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