“…Based on our HPLC results, four phenolic compounds, 5‐hydroxymethylfurfural (5‐HMF) (0.65 µg/mg), neochlorogenic acid (3.02 µg/mg), protocatechuic acid (0.06 µg/mg), and syringic acid (0.07 µg/mg) were identified in pectinase‐treated P. mume concentrate. Many studies have proposed that treatment with 5‐HMF (Zhao et al., ), neochlorogenic acid (Fang et al., ; Lin, Hu, Zhou, & Cheung, ), protocatechuic acid (Xie, Guo, Wang, Lei, & Yu, ), and syringic acid (Gheena & Ezhilarasan, ; Hu, Lin, Huang, & Cheung, ) exerts cancer and angiogenesis suppressive activities with regard to several tumor species. Specifically, previous studies reported that 5‐HMF (Zhao et al., ), neochlorogenic acid (Fang et al., ), protocatechuic acid (Xie et al., ), and syringic acid (Gheena & Ezhilarasan, ) inhibited proliferation of various cancer cells at the concentrations of 0.77, 1.77, 25.2, and 4.95 µg/mg, respectively.…”