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Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Phytochemical Constituents

Phytochemical is a natural bioactive compound found in plants, such as vegetables, fruits, medicinal plants, flowers, leaves and roots that work with nutrients and fibers to act as an defense system against disease or more accurately, to protect against disease. Phytochemicals are divided into two groups, which are primary and secondary constituents; according to their functions in plant metabolism. Primary constituents comprise common su-gars, amino acids, proteins and chlorophyll while seconddary constituents consists of alkaloids, terpenoids and phenolic compounds  and many more such as flavonoids, tannins and so on

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