Unless you live under a rock you surely have noticed antioxidant supplements heavily pushed in mainstream media, in food advertisements and certainly on the shelves of health food shops, supermarkets and of course the local chemist (pharmacy). It’s big business for the manufacturers. It’s the buzz word and visible practically everywhere. So much so that [...]
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The ORAC determination (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) is a method developed by the National Institutes of Health in Baltimore, USA to measure the antioxidant activity in certain foods, herbs and spices both physiologically and chemically. Although not the only method, it is the most popular one for determining antioxidant values in vitro. The correlation between [...]
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