Antioxidant Activity of Various Tea Extracts in Relation to Their Antimutagenicity

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 27-32

  Yen, Gow Chin ^a   Chen, Hui Yin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

active oxygen; antimutagenicity; Antioxidant activity; scavenging effect; tea extracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345170751     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf00049a007     Document Type: Article

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