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• Antioxidants: a premature scientific hypothesis that reshuffled the traditional food pyramid

  Publication

  • A. Bartoszek-Pączkowska

  - Year 2014

  Antioxidants present in substantial amounts in foods, plant-based products in particular, have been suggested as chemopreventive agents that can curb the development of undesirable health effects caused by oxidative stress simply by enriching diet in such compounds. This idea has been enthusiastically accepted by consumers, as well as food and pharmaceutical industry, and created great demand for products containing antioxidant...

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