What is kaempferol? Kaempferol is a natural flavonol, a class of flavonoid, found in many fruits vegetables and herbs, including grapes, tomatoes, broccoli, tea, and ginkgo biloba leaves. Kaempferol is one of the flavonols which was abundantly found in ripe plantain pulp and less or absent from other cultivars. Kaempferol is a tetrahydroxyflavone in which the four hydroxy groups are located at positions 3, 5, 7 and 4'.
It has a role as an antibacterial agent, a plant metabolite, a human xenobiotic metabolite, a human urinary metabolite, a human blood serum metabolite and a geroprotector. It is a member of flavonols, a 7-hydroxyflavonol and a tetrahydroxyflavone.
Kaempferol also has a beneficial role on different inflammatory-related diseases such as cardiovascular, cancers, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Kaempferol may help by augmenting the body’s antioxidant defense against free radicals, which promote the development of cancer. This flavonol can reduce the lipid oxidation in the human body, prevent the organs and cell structure from deterioration and protect their functional integrity.
At the molecular level, kaempferol has been reported to modulate a number of key elements in cellular signal transduction pathways linked to apoptosis, angiogenesis, inflammation, and metastasis.
Kaempferol compound
