we create a host of new compounds ranging fromalcohols to aldehydes and acids, and various polymers. Although no individual compound may be responsible for the changes in sensory properties, the aggregated impact of the derivatized population of flavonoids can have a dramatic effect. We have only scratched the surface


of controlling this chemistry through new technologies such as microoxidation, even though we have been empirically employing the chemistry for centuries during barrel ageing. One ofmy favourite topics covered


is the role of flavonoids in health. The major active nutraceutical ingredients in food are flavonoids. In general they act a potent antioxidants andmetal chelators. A number of flavonoids are anti-cancer promoters and cancer chemopreventive agents. Reactive oxygen compounds are


formed in vivo during normal aerobic metabolismand can cause damage to DNA, proteins and lipids. This in turn can contribute to cellular aging, mutagenesis, carcinogenesis, coronary heart disease, and Alzheimer’s disease. The oxygen scavenging activity of


flavonoids can inhibit the progress of all of these reactions. Perhaps for a future article I will go into the details. —Gary Strachan is listed on


LinkedIn.


Looking Back By Wayne Wilson


F


romthe 1890s through the 1920s, many orchardists supplemented their income by interplanting


other crops between their rows of fruit trees. In those formative days of commercial


orcharding, it could take several years before a neworchardwould come in to bearing, andmany growers relied on annual cash crops to keep their enterprise going. Two of the favoured crops of the daywere onions and strawberries. Therewas a readymarket for this


produce, too. At the time, the hardrock mining towns of theKootenay region were boomingwith activity and thousands of young, hungrymale miners needed to be fed. For orchardists


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