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. 2019 May 24;10:509. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00509

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Copyright © 2019 Saha, Talukdar, Nath, Sarker, Nahar, Sahu and Choudhury.

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Metabolism of phenols in the living system. The metabolism of the dietary components rich in phenols is easily absorbed by various part of the animal body where the small intestine process and deviates the potent part to hepatic cells and remains are hydrolysed in colon and excreted via feces. Simultaneously, a part of it is methylated in kidney through liver and the last remains are excreted through urination. The red arrows mark is used to show the various route of metabolism of phenols.