Abstract

ANTIOXIDANT: LITERATURE REVIEW

Sweeti Jain* and Nidhi Jain

ABSTRACT

This paper is an effort to provide a literature review on antioxidant in the simplest way and elucidate their pros and cons in the vital systems. The health benefits of antioxidant for a wide variety of ailments including multiple types of cancer, heart disease and liver disease have been established in past. This made antioxidants an important tool in the medical and industrial world. At the same time side effects have been observed in the vivo. The collected literature highlights the benefits and drawbacks of antioxidant, simultaneously it describes the type of antioxidants for the ease of study.

Keywords: antioxidant, pro-oxidant, enzymatic antioxidant, non-enzymatic antioxidant.