Result achieved in the study enable concluding that the lower
degree of proteins depolymerisation during ex vivo digestion compared
to in vitro hydrolysis facilitates a higher antioxidant activity
and, most likely, also the release of peptides possessing this activity.
Sarmadi and Ismail10 analysed protein hydrolysates of peanuts
and observed that the antioxidant activity of peptideswithmolecular
masses of 500–1500 Da was higher than that of peptides
with the molecular mass over 1500 Da and below 500 Da.