There is an increasing interest in antioxidants, particularly in those intended to prevent the
presumed deleterious effects of free radicals in the
human body, and to prevent the deterioration of
fats and other constituents of foodstuffs. In both
cases, there is a preference for antioxidants from
natural rather than from synthetic sources (Abdalla
and Roozen, 1999). There is therefore a parallel
increase in the use of methods for estimating the
efficiency of such substances as antioxidants