Hops (
Humulus lupulus) includes not only bitter and aroma components but also some polyphenols.
Xanthohumol, a kind of polyphenol, has a structure of prenylchalcone and shows various bioactivities.
1,2) For example, the activities have been reported as an antiproliferative activity of cancer,
3) a chemopreventive activity,
4) a bone resorption inhibition activity,
5) an antioxidative activity,
6) a diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT, an enzyme related to lipogenesis) inhibition activity
7) and so on.