Lignans dietary sources

The plant precursors of mammalian lignans include secoisolaricinol, laricresinol, matair-esinol, 7-hydroxymatairesinol, pinoresinol, and lignin. ° ° Flaxseed and whole cereal grains are considered the most important dietary sources, but many others are known, for example, strawberry achenes, berries, coffee beans, tea leaves, etc. ... 

The lignan content of foods is generally low and does not exceed 2 mg/100 g, with the exception of sesame seeds (373 mg/100 g) and flaxseed (335 mg/100 g), which have a lignan content one hundred times higher than other dietary sources [57]. 

Hypocholesterolemic activity. Extract of the dried entire plant, administered to rats at a dose of 30% of diet, was active " . Lignan fraction of the seed, administered in the ration of 4-week-old rats at a dose of 0.2% of the diet for 3 weeks, was active. Dietary fat sources were safflower and primrose oils . 

Tetens 1, Turrinim A, Tapanainen H, Phjrtohealth WPl working group, et al. Dietary intake and main sources of plant lignans in five European countries. Food Nutr Res. 2013 57. Available from http //dx.doi.Org/doi 10.3402/fnr.v57i0.19805. 

Moazzami, A. and Kamal-Eldin, A., Sesame seed is a rich source of dietary lignans, J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc., 88, 719-723, 2006. 

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