The objectives of the present article are as follows: to describe the consumption of PFS containing fennel among a subsample of Finnish PFS consumers from the PlantLIBRA PFS Consumer Survey; to present the consumer reasons for PFS usage, perception of the usefulness of the products and the adverse effects experienced after usage; to describe the socio-demographic and lifestyle-related characteristics of the consumers; and to estimate the intake of selected bioactive compounds, including estragole and trans-anethole, from the fennel-containing PFS consumed by these Finnish consumers.
To our knowledge, this article presents the first intake estimates of some of the bioactive compounds – namely trans-anethole, p-coumaric acid and rosmarinic acid – in human populations.