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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. ...Hippocrates |
Total antioxidant activity in cereals:
| Cereals | Antioxidant Content (FRAP mmol/100 g FW) |
| Buck wheat, wholemeal flour |
1.99
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| Buck wheat, white flour |
1.23
|
| Barley, wholemeal flour |
1.09
|
| Common millet, wholemeal flour |
0.82
|
| Maize, white flour |
0.60
|
| Oats, rough oatmeal |
0.59
|
| Barley, white flour |
0.58
|
| Rye, wholemeal flour |
0.47
|
| Wheat, wholemeal flour |
0.33
|
| Oats, white flour |
0.32
|
| Bulgur wheat, wholemeal flour |
0.31
|
| Sorghum, wholemeal flour |
0.30
|
| Common millet, white flour |
0.25
|
| Rye, white flour |
0.23
|
| Rice, grains |
0.17
|
| Wheat, white flour |
0.13
|
| Durum wheat, white flour |
0.05
|
| Rice, white flour |
0.04
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Antioxidant content was determined by the FRAP assay. Values represent mean concentration per 100 g fresh weight of edible portion if not otherwise stated. Cereal samples were obtained from various countries and the antioxidant content is a mean of cereals from at least three locations or brands.