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Vitamin E: Or Why We Don't Go Rancid
Author(s) -
Ingold Keith U.,
Burton Graham W.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of the chinese chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.329
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 2192-6549
pISSN - 0009-4536
DOI - 10.1002/jccs.199200033
Subject(s) - chemistry , antioxidant , vitamin e , vitamin , food science , biochemistry
The authors' chemical studies on vitamin E are summarized. These studies provide very strong support for the view that vitamin E owes its biological activity solely to the fact that it acts as a general purpose, lipid‐soluble, peroxyl‐radical‐trapping antioxidant.