Phenol-Explorer: an online comprehensive database on polyphenol contents in foods

V Neveu, J Perez-Jiménez, F Vos, V Crespy, L du Chaffaut, L Mennen, C Knox, R Eisner, J Cruz, D Wishart, A Scalbert, V Neveu, J Perez-Jiménez, F Vos, V Crespy, L du Chaffaut, L Mennen, C Knox, R Eisner, J Cruz, D Wishart, A Scalbert

Abstract

A number of databases on the plant metabolome describe the chemistry and biosynthesis of plant chemicals. However, no such database is specifically focused on foods and more precisely on polyphenols, one of the major classes of phytochemicals. As antioxidants, polyphenols influence human health and may play a role in the prevention of a number of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, some cancers or type 2 diabetes. To determine polyphenol intake in populations and study their association with health, it is essential to have detailed information on their content in foods. However this information is not easily collected due to the variety of their chemical structures and the variability of their content in a given food. Phenol-Explorer is the first comprehensive web-based database on polyphenol content in foods. It contains more than 37,000 original data points collected from 638 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals. The quality of these data has been evaluated before they were aggregated to produce final representative mean content values for 502 polyphenols in 452 foods. The web interface allows making various queries on the aggregated data to identify foods containing a given polyphenol or polyphenols present in a given food. For each mean content value, it is possible to trace all original content values and their literature sources. Phenol-Explorer is a major step forward in the development of databases on food constituents and the food metabolome. It should help researchers to better understand the role of phytochemicals in the technical and nutritional quality of food, and food manufacturers to develop tailor-made healthy foods. Database URL: http://www.phenol-explorer.eu.

Figures

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Schema of the development of the Phenol-Explorer database.
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The different tables and their relationships in the Phenol-Explorer database.
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Phenol-Explorer: screenshot of simple searches for a food and the polyphenols it contains, or for a polyphenol and the foods containing it.
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Phenol-Explorer: screenshot of the distribution of the different original content values and their corresponding literature references, used to calculate a mean content value of a given polyphenol in a given food.
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Phenol-Explorer: screenshot of an advanced search showing the different display options.
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Phenol-Explorer: screenshot of the webpage from which new data can be added by an authorized compiler.

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