Betalain alkaloid

There are abundant and diverse flavonoids with carbohydrates and lipids, alkaloids (betalain alkaloids and other alkaloids), phenols (chromones, cou-marins, lignans, quinines, and other phenolics), terpenoids (monoterpenoids, sesquiterpene lactones, triperpenoid saponins, carotenoids, and other terpenoids), and minerals as micronutritional phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables of our daily diets. Among these phytochemicals, the flavonoids have specific functionality in relation to age-related diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiac infarction, cataracts, and cancer. The authors of each chapter in the first section have presented their evidence in relation to the mechanism of the preventative and therapeutic ability of the compounds. 

Mabry, T.J. 1970. Betalains, red-violet and yellow alkaloids of Centrospermae. In Chemistry of the Alkaloids, ed. S.W. Pelletier. New York Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. 

The biosynfhesis of fhe major groups of SM has been reviewed in more detail in this volume alkaloids (including betalains) by M. Roberts, D. Strack... 

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Steglich, W. and Strack, D. (1990) Betalains, in The Alkaloids, Chemistry and Pharmacology (ed. A. Brossi). Academic Press, London, pp. 1-62. 

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