Organic Chemical
dietary steroid
die·tar·y ste·roid
Definitions related to dietary steroid:
  • A chemically heterogeneous group of organic compounds found in food containing a 17-carbon 4-ring system (cyclopentanoperhydro-phenanthrene ring system).
    CRCH Nutrition Terminology
    Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, 2021
  • Any substance found in the diet, comprising a terpenoid characterized by a conjugated carbon structure of four rings: three cyclohexane rings and one cyclopentane ring. Individual steroids vary by the functional groups attached to these rings and by the oxidation state of the rings.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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