Nutrition is a key pillar for maintaining and improving human health, as well as for ensuring better life quality.

Bioactivity

In recent years, there has been a growing trend for the promotion of food products that, in addition to meeting the conventional nutritional needs, contain bioactive compounds with beneficial properties for human health, such as:

  antioxidant

  anti-inflammatory

  antimicrobial

  anticancer

The antioxidant activity is a crucial
indicator of a food product's
bioactivity, that refers to the
beneficial effects that the
consumption of a food
product provides to
human health.

Antioxidants provide strong protection against free radicals (potentially harmful molecules) produced:

Naturally in human body during metabolism

Under the influence of exogenous factors, such as poor diet, smoking, alcohol consumption, exposure to environmental pollutants and chemicals

The high levels of free radicals cause damage to critical biomolecules, such as lipids, proteins, and DNA.