Flavinoid mind map from Wikipedia (flavanols, flavones, anthocyanidines, isoflavonoids, neoflavonoids)
Formerly known as vitamin P
Flavonoids from the world's healthiest foods
"Flavonoids, an amazing array of over 6,000 different substances found in virtually all plants, are responsible for many of the plant colors that dazzle us with their brilliant shades of yellow, orange, and red.....While the flavonoid family is too complex to report all of its food connections, some highlights are especially important. In the fruit family, it is berries that come out highest in the chemical category of flavonoids called anthocyanins. Black raspberries, for example, may contain up to 100 milligrams of anthocyanins per ounce. ... In general the more colorful components of the food--like the skins of fruits--contain the highest concentration of flavonoids."
Flavonoids from the world's healthiest foods
"Flavonoids, an amazing array of over 6,000 different substances found in virtually all plants, are responsible for many of the plant colors that dazzle us with their brilliant shades of yellow, orange, and red.....While the flavonoid family is too complex to report all of its food connections, some highlights are especially important. In the fruit family, it is berries that come out highest in the chemical category of flavonoids called anthocyanins. Black raspberries, for example, may contain up to 100 milligrams of anthocyanins per ounce. ... In general the more colorful components of the food--like the skins of fruits--contain the highest concentration of flavonoids."
"Many studies suggest that dark colored fruits such as berries; including blackberry, raspberry, and strawberry are rich in flavonoids and polyphenolic compounds and are endowed with beneficial properties in vision and eye health. ... All these antioxidants described here are well known to control the production of reactive oxygen species as well as their dependent activation of redox-sensitive transcription factors such as NF-κB and AP1. Further, most of the flavinoids have shown to prevent the activation of several key enymes [sic] such as aldose reductase that controls the oxidative stress signals."
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