*Diet-Epigenome Interactions: Epi-Drugs Modulating the Epigenetic Machinery during Cancer… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.95374*

groups have been shown to have a protective effect in various cancer types, such as curcumin, isothiocyanates, green tea polyphenolics, quercetin, resveratrol, anacardic acid, gallic acid, delphinidin, silymarin, silybidin, and genistein that are found in various food components and medicinal plants are summerized in this chapter (**Figure 9**) [74].

These were the best known bioactive food compounds; besides these dietary components folic acid, alliin and allicin in garlic, omega 3 fatty acids, pigments such as licopene, carotenoids and anthocyanins, multivitamins such as vitamine A, C, E, vitamine B12 moreover, minerals such as zinc and selenium are the examples of nutrients that have a proven role in cancer prevention through an epigenetic mechanism [59–61, 74–77]; that substantially take part in prevention of various cancer types such as oral, breast, skin, esophageal, colorectal, prostate, pancreatic and lung cancers (**Figure 10**) [74].

**Figure 9.**

*Natural food components with epigenome altering properties [74].*

### **Figure 10.**

*Dietary components and their interaction with epigenetic regulation [74].*
