Flavonoids are polyphenol antioxidants that can be found in plants, herbs and other aliments. They have been documented as cancer preventive agents and are very useful active constituents of herbs and plants responsible for many of the beneficial properties exerted by those ones, as for example their anti-aging effect (Ginkgo biloba, Calendula...etc.) and their free radical scavenging action (antioxidant), preventing cancer occurrence...etc.

Flavonoids also exert antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic properties, being also able to decrease capillary fragility [3], but what is more important, a study by Susan Steck of the Arnol School of Public Health shows that they can have an even more important function as Flavonoids may lower the risk of highly aggressive prostate cancer occurrence. Image: Fruit at North Market in Columbus, OH. by Lisa Sinclair under Creative Commons License (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Flavonoids are polyphenol antioxidants that can be found in plants, herbs and other aliments. They function as powerful antioxidants having a very important role in our metabolism and believed to have certain anti-cancer properties, but how many different types of flavonoids exist and where can we find them?

Quercetin is believed to have several benefits for the human body, among which we can mention the anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and antioxidant. Quercetin has indeed about four times the antioxidant properties of Vitamin C.