WAPA - The World Apple and Pear Association

Research studies

This ‘Nutrition & Health’ research studies database aims at keeping you up-to-date with the most important studies in this area, published around the world. To find the information you look for you can use either the search engine below to look for specific words or the provided key words on the right.

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Criteria: flavonoid

Relevance of apple polyphenols as antioxidants in human plasma: contrasting in vitro and in vivo effects
(2015)

Flavonoid-rich apples and nitrate-rich spinach augment nitric oxide status and improve endothelial function in healthy men and women: a randomized controlled trial
(2014)

Dietary intake of selected flavonols, flavones, and flavonoid-rich foods and risk of cancer in middle-aged and older women
(2012)

Dietary catechins and epithelial cancer incidence
(2012)

Free fruit at workplace intervention increases total fruit intake: a validation study using 24hr dietary recall and urinary flavonoid excretion
(2010)

Which polyphenolic compounds contribute to the total antioxidant activities of apple?
(2005)

Associations of dietary flavonoids with risk of Type 2 Diabetes, and markers of Insulin Resistance and Systemic Inflammation in Women: A Prospective Study and Cross Sectional Analysis
(2005)

The health benefits of apples and pears, prepared for the World Apple and Pear Association (WAPA)
(2003)

Dietary catechins in relation to coronary heart disease death among postmenopausal women
(2001)

Intake of flavonoids and lung cancer
(2000)

Flavonoid intake and coronary mortality in Finland: a cohort study
(1996)

Dietary antioxidant flavonols and risk of coronary heart disease: the Zutphen Elderly Study
(1993)

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