Antioxidants

New antioxidants research reported from A.T. Serra and co-authors

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 11th, 2011

2011 JAN 11 -- "Apples are known to have many health-promoting activities, especially anticancer, antiradical and antioxidant effects. Most of these actions are believed to be due to their polyphenolic components which very greatly between different varieties," scientists in Oeiras, Portugal report.

"In this work, four traditional Portuguese apple cultivars (Bravo de Esmolfe, Malapio Fino, Malapio da Serra and Pero Pipo) and five exotic varieties (Golden, Starking, Fuji, Gala Galaxy and Reineta Parda) were evaluated in terms of their bioactivity using both cell-based and cell-free assays; 17 parameters were evaluated for each sample. obtained were submitted...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-01-11)

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