ISSN:
0570-0833
Keywords:
Organosulfur compounds
;
Nutrition
;
Chemistry
;
General Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Many plants that serve for human nutritional purposes contain compounds from which physiologically active substances are formed by enzymic reactions. Usually such compounds, and the enzymes which react with them, are located in different cells, so that the active substances are formed only on crushing the plant: Examples are the lachrymatory factor and the antimicrobial substances formed from the different cysteine-S-oxides of the onion and garlic, as well as the goitrogenic compounds formed from the thioglucosides occuring in the Brassica species.
Additional Material:
2 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.196202991