Old ancient soybean,Soy and the dissemination,cultivation.
Article Content:
- .Basic Botanical Data of Soy.Glycine max.
- .Cultivation and plant history of Soy:Soy and the dissemination.
- .Nutrients and Phytochemicals of Soy.
- .Soybeans are used in a variety of ways in Asia.
- .Soy Active Compounds.
- .History of Soy.
- .Health and Functionality of Soy:1).Soy and Reduction in Cholesterol.
- .Health and Functionality of Soy:2).Soy Improves Digestion.
- .Health and Functionality of Soy:3).Soy Treat heart disease.
- .Health and Functionality of Soy:4).Soy reduce certain cancers.
- .Health and Functionality of Soy:5).Soy is also being studied for possible effectiveness in numerous other conditions.
- .Health and Functionality of Soy:6).Soy as Bowman-Birk inhibitor(BBI).
- .Health and Functionality of Soy:7).Phytoestrogens and Soy Extract.
- .Health and Functionality of Soy:8).Dietary Soybean:A Source of Functional Food Ingredients, Soy proteins,Soy carbohydrates,Soy lipids and phytosterols,Soy phytoestrogens,Soy saponins,Soy Isoflavones.
- .Soy Components:8.1).Soy proteins.
- .Soy Components:8.2).Soy carbohydrates.
- .Soy Components:8.3).Soy lipids and phytosterols.
- .Soy Components:8.4).Soy phytoestrogens.
- .Soy Components:8.5).What are phytoestrogens?.
- .Soy Components:8.6).Soy saponins.
- .Soy Components:8.7).Soy Isoflavones.
- .Research Update and latest findings of Soy Isoflavones.Daidzein.Daidzin.Genistein.Genistin related.
Soy Components:8.4).Soy phytoestrogens.
Soybeans and soy foods are major sources of dietary phytoestrogens.
The main group of phytoestrogens in soybeans is the isoflavones. The coumestan, coumestrol, occurs in small amounts in the beans (but in large amounts in soybean sprouts).
In soy and other plants, isoflavones occur principally in the form of glycosides.
The principal isoflavone glycosides in soy are genistin and daidzin; the corresponding aglycones are known as genistein and daidzein. Soybeans contain approximately three times as much genistin as daidzin.
Glycitein 7-O-b-glucoside is a third isoflavone glycoside in soy. It is present in soybeans in smaller amounts than daidzin.
Isoflavones appear to play several different roles in plant physiology. Some isoflavones, at least, act as antimicrobial defence compounds.
The major soybean isoflavones, genistein and daidzein, are inducers of nodulation genes in the nitrogen fixing bacterium Bradyrhizobium, which forms nodules on soybean roots.
However, it is the biological activity of isoflavones in mammals that has caused most excitement in recent years.
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1.Old ancient soybean,Soy and the dissemination,cultivation.




