AKT1 and colonic neoplasm: Ellagic acid is a rich phenolic acid present in BGN and it was shown that 15 days administration of ellagic acid against murine colon cancer induced with a carcinogenic compound (1,2-dimethyl hydrazine) resulted in prevention of the activation of P13k/Akt pathway linked with colon carcinogenesis (Umesalma and Sudhandiran, 2011).