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Antioxidants

The ORAC score

A test-tube number that sold a decade of superfoods. The USDA withdrew its own database in 2012, saying the values had no relevance to anything happening in a human.

Filed under Method Constellation Antioxidants Status Upcoming

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What we have so far

A test-tube number that sold a decade of superfoods. The USDA withdrew its own database in 2012, saying the values had no relevance to anything happening in a human.

This star is on the map because the show intends to take the question apart properly — the trials, how it is actually tested, whether the thing sold is the thing studied. That work is not done yet, and nothing here should be read as a conclusion. When the investigation is published it will appear on this page.

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