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isoflavones

isoflavones is the plural of isoflavone.

Meaning of isoflavone

Noun

isoflavone (plural isoflavones)

  1. Any of a class of polyphenolic phytoestrogens found in soybeans and similar plants that may have beneficial health properties.
    • The presence of isoflavones has also led to the worry that soy might negatively affect fertility or give men more feminine characteristics. […] And while it’s true that the isoflavones in soy can weakly mimic estrogen, he added, they also seem to have anticancer, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant...2023 April 4, Alice Callahan, “How Healthy Is Tofu?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about isoflavones

What is isoflavones the plural of?
Isoflavones is the plural of isoflavone.

Words near isoflavones in the dictionary

  1. isoflavanone
  2. isoflavans
  3. isoflavene
  4. isoflavenes
  5. isoflavone
  6. isoflavones
  7. isoflavonoid
  8. isoflavonoids
  9. isoflavonol
  10. isoflavonols
  11. isoflavonone

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