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- noun Plural form of
prooxidant .
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"The major drawback of the free radical scavenging assays is that they do not measure the ability of a compound to chelate metals, partition into lipids where oxidation is prevalent, or interact with other antioxidants and prooxidants (e.g., metals) in a food product," they concluded.
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