An apple plus a Brazil nut a day keeps the doctors away: Antioxidant capacity of foods and their health benefits

Current Pharmaceutical Design

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 189-195

  Ferrari, Carlos Kusano Bucalen ^a,c   Percário, Sandro ^b,d   Silva, José Carlos Costa Baptista ^e   da Silva Torres, Elizabeth Aparecida Ferraz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Avenida Tarquínio Joslin dos Santos   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antioxidant capacity; Cancer; Cardiovascular diseases; Cerebrovascular diseases

Indexed keywords

BERTHOLLETIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; HUMAN; MALUS; NEOPLASMS; PHYTOTHERAPY;

BERTHOLLETIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HUMANS; MALUS; NEOPLASMS; PHYTOTHERAPY;

EID: 84960963885     PISSN: 13816128     EISSN: 18734286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1381612822666151117122715     Document Type: Article

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