Interestingly both
polyphenols and BRAI index are negatively correlated with the peroxide
content (r = 0.72, 0.59), since it is easily predicted that if
the antioxidant capacity of the sample is high, the extent of its
autoxidation would be low. Since the antioxidant activity is
responsible for the nutraceutical status of EVOO (Servili et al.,
2004), it is clear that these correlations are particularly important