Antioxidants

Ascorbic acid, a type of food substances, can facilitate the biosynthesis of ossein and accelerate the healing of wounds.
It plays an important role in the metabolism of tryptophan and tyrosine, which can prolong the life of the body.
Ascorbic Acid also can improve the utilization of the iron, calcium and folic acid.
This kind of food nutients improves the metabolism of fats, lipoid and cholesterol, which can prevent cardiovascular disease.

Sodium erythorbate is a new type of antioxidant, which acts as preservatives by inhibiting the effects of oxygen on food.
Sodium erythorbate is widely used in the production of various foods, such as meat products, beer, beverages, canned fruits and vegetables, confiture, frozen fish and so on.

As an important antioxidant in food industry, sodium ascorbate can not only preserve the color and natural flavor of the food, but also can prolong its shelf life, without any side effects.
It is mainly used in meat products, fruits, vegetables, canned food, jam, beer, carbonated drinks, fruit tea, fruit juice, wine, and so on.

Erythorbic acid, mainly used as food antioxidant, is widely used in meat products, beer, fruit juice, fruit can and canned vegetable, cake, dairy products, wine, and so forth.

Calcium ascorbate, a kind of food additives, can be added to soup and soup-type foods.
This organic compound can supplement the calcium without changing the original taste of food and losing physical activity of VC. So it is bifunctional agent in preventing rachitis and scurvy.

BHT, one of the best food antioxidants, has been widely used in cosmestics, pharmaceuticals, jet fuels, rubber....
With a strong antioxidant effect(5 ~ 7 times better than that of BHA, BHT, PG), it is ideal for use in animal and plant fat and fat-rich foods, especially for salad oil, blend oil and cooking oil.
Butylated hydroxytoluene can effectively slow down the oil oxidation and improve the stability of food products, thus significantly extending the shelf life of grease and fat-rich food.

In food industry: Because of the high antioxidant activity of green tea extracts, they have been used as a kind of innovative food additive to preserve animal and vegetable oils, ham, cake, instant noodles, soft drinks, thus preventing food from oxidation and deterioration and extending their shelf life.
In medicine : tea polyphenols (green tea extract) can reduce blood pressure, lipid and prevent cardiovascular diseases. Besides, with their strong anti-oxidation function, tea polyphenols can eliminate the skin super-oxide, increase SOD activity, with superior antibacterial effect.