Table 1:

T. cacao phenolic compounds and the cell line(s) tested.

Phenolic compound	Biological effect	Reference
Polymer procyanidins	Caco-2 (colon)	Erlejman et al. (2008)
Procyanidin B2	Caco-2 (colon), HL-60 (leukaemia)	Erlejman et al. (2008) and Sakano et al. (2005)
Epicatechin	Caco-2 (colon), SH-SY5Y (neuroblastoma), HepG2 (hepatoma), MCF-7 (breast)	Erlejman et al. (2008), Ramiro-Puig and Castell (2009), Granado-Serrano et al. (2010), and Rodgers and Grant (1998)
3′-O-methyl epicatechin	FEK4 (skin fibroblasts)	Basu-Modak et al. (2003)
Catechin	HepG2 (hepatoma), Caco-2 (colon), Int-407 (intestine)	Erlejman et al. (2008) and Cheng et al. (2013)