Natural Antioxidants: Functions and Benefits- An

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M M Youssef*

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Natural Antioxidants: Functions and Benefits- An Article

M M Youssef*

Department of Food Science &Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Alexandria, Egypt Alexandria, Egypt

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Received Date: July 29, 2019; Published Date:September 23, 2019

Abstract

Natural antioxidants possess strong potential to inhibit oxidative stress by controlling the formation and scavenging the free radicals, known as reactive oxygen species (ROS). The ROS is a collective term and including both oxygen radicals and several non-radical oxidizing agents that participate in the initiation and/ or propagation of chain reaction [1,2].