date:Apr 16, 2013
gests that some phytochemicals could be nutritionally beneficial.
The team used analytical methods to determine the profiles of tocopherols, tocotrienols and gamma-oryzanol in white, light brown, brown, red, and purple bran. They found a wide variation in the concentrations of the two forms of vitamin E and of gamma-oryzanol.The team also analyzed other phytochemicalsspecifically phenolics and flavonoidsin the same five color classes of bran. Research chemist Ming-Hsuan Chen headed up the studi