7 Health Benefits of Vitexin: The Remarkable Flavonoid You’ve Never Heard Of

Vitexin is an apigenin flavone glucoside occurring in passionflower, chaste tree, bamboo leaves, pearl¹ millet, mung bean, hawthorn, fenugreek² and other plants.

A related compound, isovitexin, is also found in passionflower and mung bean, as well as in açaí, cannabis, buckwheat and wild green oat.

Over the past couple of decades, research has been dominated by studies that have identified the compounds in a number of plants, and investigations into their health benefits has only recently commenced in earnest.

”Vitexin and isovitexin are active components of many traditional Chinese medicines and were found in various medicinal plants,” write M. He and …read more