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Functional Aspects of Antioxidants in Traditional Food

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Antioxidants have become one of the hottest topics in the modern food industry, not only as food additives preventing oxidative changes, but also as food components acting in vivo after ingestion. According to their mechanisms of activity, antioxidants have been divided into two basic groups: primary antioxidants or donators, so-called preventive antioxidants, and secondary antioxidants or the acceptors, the so-called chain-breaking antioxidants. In recent years, researchers have turned their attention towards phenolic compounds, secondary metabolites of the plant world, which are highly bioactive. Today, the food industry needs to search for other innovative sources of antioxidants that could be consumed everyday and that would lead to a healthier life, that would be acceptable to consumers, safe, with a high potential, cheap, and biologically active in low concentrations.

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  • Antioxidants
  • Bioactive components
  • Polyphenols
  • Food

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  1. Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Life Sciences, ul. Wojska Polskiego 31, 60-624, Poznan, Poland

    Anna Gramza-Michałowska & Dominik Kmiecik

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  1. University of Iceland, Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Kristberg Kristbergsson

  2. Izmir , Turkey, Food Engineering Department Ege Universi, Izmir, Turkey

    Semih Ötles

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Gramza-Michałowska, A., Kmiecik, D. (2016). Functional Aspects of Antioxidants in Traditional Food. In: Kristbergsson, K., Ötles, S. (eds) Functional Properties of Traditional Foods. Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7662-8_1

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