In summary, a strategy has been developed to generate consistent profiles of phenolic antioxidants from food plants to design functional health foods for improved diet as a means to potentially manage (through prevention) oxidation-linked chronic and infectious diseases. The strategy to generate consistent phenolic antioxidant profiles has driven the development of plant system models, wherein synthesis of ATP, RE, NADPH2 and sugar phosphates for cellular metabolism is regulated through an alternative proline-linked pentose-phosphate pathway