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SUBMITTER: Prabakaran M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6337394 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20181225 1
Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.) contains generous amounts of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, and dietary fibers, in addition to secondary metabolites such as phenols and flavonoids that act as antioxidants. The phenolic compounds detected in rice (organic rice (OR), conventional rice (CR), and pesticide-free rice (PFR)), namely, protocatechuic, gentisic, <i>p</i>-hydroxybenzoic, <i>p</i>-coumaric, ferulic, salicylic, and caffeic acids, are notable free radical scavengers. The sum of these pheno ...[more]