Carcinogenic and Anticarcinogenic Food Components
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Author(s): W. Baer-Dubowska, A. Bartoszek and D. Malejka-Giganti
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0849320968
Format: hardback
393pp
Price: £74.99
Review Date: 17 January 2006
Review: Anticarcinogenic food components have become important in the new research field of cancer chemoprevention, and this multidisciplinary book brings together information, in 17 contributed chapters, on both cancer-causing and cancer-preventing food components. The first part of the book addresses such topics as genotoxic food components, food preservation and processing, environmental contamination of food, oxidants in food, and dietary polyunsaturated acids and eicosanoids. Later chapters cover chemopreventive components in spices, tea, wine, fruits and vegetables, and phytoestrogens. A final chapter discusses current knowledge and future directions in the field of diet and cancer prevention. The book will interest biochemists, toxicologists, epidemiologists and food scientists, among others, in the food industry and in research establishments.