section_path: Health effects/Research by constituent/Lignans
section_name: Lignans
paragraph_text: Lignans
  
  Plant lignans are associated with high fiber foods such as cereal brans and beans are the principal precursor to mammalian lignans which have an ability to bind to human estrogen sites. Soybeans are a significant source of mammalian lignan precursor secoisolariciresinol containing 13–273 μg/100 g dry weight.