Table 4.

Most abundant anthocyanidins and their roles

Cereal grain	Most abundant flavonoids	Significance of abundant flavonoid	Most abundant anthocyanidin	Total anthocyanidin content (μg/g)
Barley	Catechin	antioxidation capacity	Cyanidin	4
Maize	cyaniding-3-glucoside	–	cyanidin-3-glucoside	93–96.5
Sorghum	leucoapigeninidins and leutolinidins	High resistance to molds	apigeninidins and leutolinidins	94.4

Dicko et al. (2005), Mazza and Gao (2005), El-Sayed et al. (2006)