What you need to know about antioxidants

Coffee, tea, chocolate and red wine can be seen everywhere, you may not know they are excellent sources of antioxidants.

What are antioxidants?

Antioxidants are nutrients in foods that can help our body cells from the damage caused by oxidative stress response,  such as exposure to ultraviolet light, pollution or smoke. tea, coffee, chocolate, red wine, strawberry, Blueberry, carrot and spinach, garlic, broccoli, and roughage are antioxidant-rich foods. For the convenience of transport, distribution and consumption, the shelf life of many foods may be as long as one year. Such a long time may cause the food oxidation. Therefore, antioxidants is needed.

The right time to use antioxidants

1  Use the antioxidants when food are fresh or before food oxidation.

2  Oil oxidation is a spontaneous chain reaction, so add oxidants before inductive phase of chain reaction can cut off the reaction chain.

Which foods have the antioxidants?

Oils, nuts and oilseeds products, biscuits, puffed food, fried noodle, fried dough twist, convenient rice and other foods can be added antioxidants. Besides, dry cured meat products, aquatic products and other animal foods has also been licensed antioxidants. Because of these products contain fat, and most of them are exposed in the air. There will be an unpleasant smell of rancid when placed for a long.

Actually, every day we are in contact with antioxidants, because a variety of baked food and puffed food generally contain antioxidants. At the same time, if the pastry food add raw materials like peanuts and sesame, that means the antioxidants are also added.

The more antioxidants the better?

The use of high doses of antioxidants can also lead to toxicity.  The recommended dosage of beta carotene (vitamin A) is 2~7 mg daily, if the male smokers takein beta carotene 20 mg / day, the chances of developing lung cancer increase 18%.

Are antioxidants any equivalent?

There are many kinds of antioxidants, and  the structure and properties are different. In terms of chemical structure, there are thiol, phenol and amine antioxidants. In terms of dissolution, there are water soluble and fat soluble antioxidants. Therefore, different antioxidants have different effects.

How should we arrange the diet?

We should focus on reducing the high saturated fat and salt, such as cream, cakes and sausages, etc. However, it's not a good idea to remove coffee, tea, chocolate and wine from your diet. In fact, they are part of our life. Do you know they are a good source of antioxidants, which is very important to our health.

Studies of the United States anti ageing properties shows that antioxidants can help you extend your life span. They can also help fight heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's disease. If you are interested in exercise or training, you can drink a cup of coffee before exercise. Antioxidants in coffee can help you stay healthy. Source: http://okfoodadd.blogspot.com/2015/08/acidity-regulator-and-its-application.html.