How can you measure the antioxidant levels in blueberries?

February 9th, 2010 by tonca Leave a reply »

I am doing a science fair project, and want to know if it is possible for me to actually measure the antioxidant content of blueberries (or any other food)

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Brigitte H says:

February 9, 2010 at 7:43 pm

To measure antioxidant property two methods are used:

Ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP)
read Materials and Methods
http://www.sci.u-szeged.hu/ABS/2002/Acta%20HPb/s2/32-szool.pdf

Trolox equivalent antioxidant capacity (TEAC) assay
Materials and methods
http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/133/9/2812

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