The use of total antioxidant capacity as surrogate marker for food quality and its effect on health is to be discouraged

Nutrition

Volumn 30, Issue 7-8, 2014, Pages 791-793

  Pompella, Alfonso ^a   Sies, Helmut ^b   Wacker, Roland ^c   Brouns, Fred ^d   Grune, Tilman ^e   Biesalski, Hans Konrad ^f   Frank, Jan ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BIOTESYS GMBH   (Germany)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ferric reducing ability of plasma; Food quality; Oxygen radical absorbance capacity; Phytochemicals; Total antioxidant capacity; Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BILIRUBIN; THIOL DERIVATIVE; TOCOPHEROL; URIC ACID; ANTIOXIDANT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIOXIDANT ASSAY; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FERRIC REDUCING ABILITY OF PLASMA; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; ORAC ASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TROLOX EQUIVALENT ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; DIET; HEALTH; METABOLISM; STANDARDS;

ANTIOXIDANTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIET; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH; HUMANS; PHYTOCHEMICALS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 84902176297     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: 18731244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2013.12.002     Document Type: Article

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