Talk:List of antioxidants in food

Merger with list of Phyto-Chemicals
Do Phyto-chemicals exhibit significant characters/behaviours other than anti-oxidants? For example Phyto-estrogens mimic the behaviour of estrogen inside the human body. This particular Hormone is associated more with development of body charateristics than with anti-oxidant properties. J mareeswaran (talk) 16:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Phyto chemicals doesn't include vitamins as they are essential nutrients. So Anti-oxidants becomes a super-set of Phytochemicals. But list of phytochemicals is a more detailed article.If it is merged with anti-oxidants, it will disturb the clarity of this article. So probably both should remain as different articles with anti-oxidants focusing more on essential nutrientsJ mareeswaran (talk) 17:01, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * The term "phytochemical" just means "plant chemical." This includes any chemical that a plant produces, not just antioxidants.  This could include alkaloids, for instance.  Antioxidants are a subset of phytochemicals.  That's why it doesn't make any sense at all to merge the two articles.
 * WriterHound (talk) 06:12, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

do not merge because not all antioxidants are phytochemicals and not all phytochemicals are antioxidants. --SV Resolution(Talk) 16:35, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Anti-oxidant properties of Cereals
sorghum, rice bran etc. are mentioned high up in the ORAC scale along with spices and cocoa as per this link http://www.ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/12354500/Data/ORAC/ORAC07.pdf

Maybe the list(foods highest in anti-oxidants) given in this wikipedia article needs to be re-visited

J mareeswaran (talk) 18:17, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I suggest the table in the Food Sources section be totally removed as it is a duplication of the table in Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity J mareeswaran (talk) 17:49, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Better than a list!
A table would be much better, with chemical, checkmark-able properties like antioxidant, anti-cancer, hepatoprotective, antifungal, antibacterial, antiviral, that way both lists could be merged into one better list. Of course, a database would be best, but that would require too much user input for wikipedia. Doseiai2 (talk) 16:44, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Clarity
It would be a whole lot better to have a specific section for Antioxidants in Food. I was actually hoping that it would be more detailed, complete with list of more food sources. People looking for Antioxidant section are looking for specific information. In my case, it is for longevity and anti-aging purposes. Merging with another section will blur the distinction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.86.150.55 (talk) 01:47, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Phenolic acids and their esters
Main article: polyphenol antioxidant "Chicoric acid - another caffeic acid derivative, is found only in the popular medicinal herb Echinacea purpurea." This assessment is inaccurate. You know why the compound was called chicoric? Because it is present in chicory (Chicorium intybus), therefore it is not found only in Echinacea purpurea. "Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases" is (apparently) showing a contradictory information: if you search for plants having "chicoric-acid", you find indeed only Echinacea purpurea". However, if you do not limit the search to first 40 plants with highest content of chicoric acid, you will find, as one may expect, chicory and other echinacea species as palida or angustifolia (and other botanically related plants). Since this article is intended for education, I suggest not to skip the chicory, to highlight that the name of some phytochemicals is based on the name of the plant where they were discovered first. The listing of other plants is also highlighting another important observation/fact: related plants may share some particular phytochemicals (see E. palida or E. angustifolia olso having chicoric acid). Thnaks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheezypancake (talk • contribs) 03:17, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

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serving size
serving size should just be per 100 gram or something, talking about ounces, half and whole cups in 1 table is just stupid, nobody can use that to make a comparison...

Agree; it's ridiculous.77Mike77 (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Agree. Now this article is only understandable to people living in USA, UK and former colonies of USA/UK.

Why not add grams and liters to existing table, if it is not possible to have a table with all in 100 grams?

People often buy powders from iherb and similar stores, so per 100g of freeze-dried powder would be interesting. ee1518 (talk) 12:40, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Undefined acronym
ORAC? What do the letters stand for? (Edit: it means "Oxygen radical absorbance capacity"; maybe someone could link that to the wiki article.)77Mike77 (talk) 15:22, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

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Betaine is missing
I see betaine is missing from the article. See : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betaine — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.162.180.7 (talk) 01:38, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

How about selenium and zinc?
Because selenium is considered an antioxidant and zinc contributes. David notMD (talk) 14:23, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I disagree – this misunderstanding is widespread in the public and is often used to falsely advertise supplement products. Dietary minerals – selenium, zinc, manganese, and others – do not have direct antioxidant roles themselves, but rather are cofactors inducing or reducing enzymes that have antioxidant functions. Minerals should not be listed on this page. This article is mainly a misleading mess that overemphasizes polyphenols as dietary antioxidants (which they are not). The only "antioxidants in food" are vitamins A-C-E. --Zefr (talk) 15:17, 14 September 2017 (UTC)