Many available bioactive antioxidants are derived from natural sources like plants and animals. They are isolated from rice bran, peanut kernels, cornmeal, frog skin, egg yolk proteins, casein and many other sources. The findings of synthetic antioxidants have resulted in replacement of natural ones by synthetic compounds. But, the usage of synthetics such as Butylhydroxyanisole (BHA), Butylhydroxytoluene (BHT), and tert-butylhydroxyquinone (TBHQ) are found to have carcinogenic effects 10,11 Hence, the development and utilization of less harmful antioxidants . with low cytotoxicity of natural origin are desirable and interest in finding natural antioxidants has increased in recent days mainly focused on plant compounds