Abstract:Astilbin is a dihydroflavonol rhamnoside that widely exists in plants and functional food. Researches indicated that astilbin has many bioactivities, such as selective immunosuppression, hypoglycemic effect, regulate lipid metabolism, etc, which attracted the interesting of many food chemists, medicinal scientists and biologists. In the present article, the distribution, physicochemical properties, bioactivities and metabolism of astilbin were reviewed.
