Consumer Info - Antioxidants
(ChiaCorp, december 14, 2007)
Antioxidants beat the ageing and damaging both in food as well as in living beigns. Epidemologic studies indicate that a high level of food and drink consumption rich in antioxidants may protect against CHD, apoplexy, lung and stomach cancer. Besides, there is a growing evidence that suggests that other many diseases like arthritis, damaging of inmune system and brain dysfunction, are the result of the damage caused by free radicals.
Chia seed has high antioxidant levels. The most important antioxidants in chia are chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, quercetin and kaempferol. It have been shown that flavonols inhibit platelet aggregation, lipid oxidation and emergence of inflammatory diseases and cancer.
