“…Flavonoids have been known to have various bioactive functions such as therapeutic detoxification against liver injury (Zhang et al, 2014) and apoptosis of leukemia cells (Wang et al, 2015). In addition, many studies have reported that some phenolic compounds including flavonoids, such as kaempferol, parulerin, luteolin and epigallocatechin, have inhibitory effects on tyrosinase (Kim and Uyama, 2005;Huang et al, 2013). Furthermore, many have studied a fermentation technique of bioactive flavonoids to improve their bioactivity (Xing et al, 2016).…”