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Article: Antioxidant vitamins: too much of a good thing?
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- Food Engineering & Ingredients
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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Vitamins A, C and E are essential ingredients of a healthy diet. These important phytochemicals function as antioxidants, reducing oxidative stress in the body by neutralising free radicals. Fresh fruits and vegetables are a major source of these antioxidant vitamins, but many other processed and/or packaged foods are easily supplemented with them, creating a variety of functional foods that are in demand by increasingly health-conscious consumers. But do antioxidant vitamin supplements really promote health? Camila Alexander* investigates.
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For some time now, antioxidant vitamins have also been available in most countries as dietary supplements, giving ...
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