Sarika Patil

  Knowing ORAC and Anti-oxidant potential of Curcumin A lot is being talked about on various social media platforms about the ORAC. But what is ORAC? How many people are aware of this? ORAC, Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity assay, is a method developed by the scientist at the National Institute of Health (NIH) to quantify the antioxidant capacity of food in a laboratory set-up. Though a lot of groundwork is yet to be required to establish the correlation between the ORAC value of foods and their health benefits, it is considered to be significant by some of the experts as a measure of anti-oxidant effectiveness. It is said higher the ORAC value, high will be the anti-oxidant capacity and hence more free radicals are cleared out of our body. We all are aware of Oxidative stress. It is nothing but an imbalance between the production and elimination of free radicals or Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) that results in damage to cells and tissues. This causes the decline of immune power