“…In some cases, ACs were superior to polymeric resins for phenol adsorption (Otero et al, 2005d), and similar for flavonoid adsorption (Aehle et al, 2004). Macroporous resin adsorption emerged as an efficient technique for separation, recovery and concentration of active components from vegetals, including leaves (Xu et al, 2000;Silva et al, 2007;Li and Chase, 2009), bark (Lorenz and Roennefahrt, 2004), roots and rhizomes (Fu et al, 2005;Xu et al, 2005), hawthorn (Liu et al, 2010a,b), juice (Saleh et al, 2008), fruits (Lang, 2004), and commercial extracts (Barkakati et al, 2010). Resins have been applied to the purification of products and byproducts of citrus (Doner et al, 1993), pomegranate (Seeram et al, 2005a;Seeram et al, 2005b) and cacao (Kim et al, 2004).…”