Project description:Equol is one of major isoflavones with an affinity to endoplasmic reticulum and has an estrogen-like biological activity. Equol-producing bacteria have been isolated and characterized, however fermentation has been performed in an anaerobic condition with soybean-based products as substrates. Pueraria lobata has been reported as a plant with a higher content of isoflavones, such as daidzein, daidzin, and puerarin.
