View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE Published article. provided by Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Citation: Guiné RPF, Pedro A, Matos J, Barracosa P, Nunes C, Gonçalves FJ. (2017) Evaluation of Author version phenolic compounds composition, antioxidant activity and bioavailability of phenols in dried thistle flower. Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization, 11(1), 192- 203. EVALUATION OF PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS COMPOSITION, ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY AND BIOAVAILABILITY OF PHENOLS IN DRIED THISTLE FLOWER Raquel P. F. Guiné 1*, Ana Pedro 2, Joana Matos 3, Paulo Barracosa 4, Cláudia Nunes 5, Fernando J. Gonçalves 6 1 CI&DETS, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Campus Politécnico, Viseu, Portugal; CERNAS, Escola Superior Agrária de Coimbra, Portugal (
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[email protected]) *Corresponding author: Raquel P. F. Guiné Dep. Indústrias Alimentares, ESAV, Quinta da Alagoa, Estrada de Nelas, Ranhados, 3500- 606 Viseu, Portugal. Phone: +351 232480700; Fax: +351 232480750; E-mail:
[email protected] 1 Abstract The objective of this work was to characterize the thistle flower in relation to the composition of phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity, as well as the evaluation of the stability of the phenols along the digestive tract.