The total antioxidant content of more than 3100 foods, beverages, spices, herbs and supplements used worldwide

Carlsen, Monica H; Halvorsen, Bente L; Holte, Kari; Bøhn, Siv K; Dragland, Steinar; Sampson, Laura; Willey, Carol; Senoo, Haruki; Umezono, Yuko; Sanada, Chiho; Barikmo, Ingrid; Berhe, Nega; Willett, Walter C; Phillips, Katherine M; Jacobs, David R; Blomhoff, Rune

doi:10.1186/1475-2891-9-3

Nutrition Journal

Table 1 Statistical descriptives of the Antioxidant Food Table and individual categories.

From: The total antioxidant content of more than 3100 foods, beverages, spices, herbs and supplements used worldwide

	Antioxidant content in mmol/100 g
	n	mean	median	min	max	25th percentile	75th percentile	90th percentile
Plant based foods ^a)	1943	11.57	0.88	0.00	2897.11	0.27	4.11	24.30
Animal based foods ^b)	211	0.18	0.10	0.00	1.00	0.05	0.21	0.46
Mixed foods ^c)	854	0.91	0.31	0.00	18.52	0.14	0.68	1.50
Categories
1 Berries and berry products	119	9.86	3.34	0.06	261.53	1.90	6.31	37.08
2 Beverages	283	8.30	0.60	0.00	1347.83	0.15	2.37	3.64
3 Breakfast cereals	90	1.09	0.89	0.16	4.84	0.53	1.24	1.95
4 Chocolates and sweets	80	4.93	2.33	0.05	14.98	0.82	8.98	13.23
5 Dairy products	86	0.14	0.06	0.00	0.78	0.04	0.14	0.44
6 Desserts and cakes	134	0.45	0.20	0.00	4.10	0.09	0.52	1.04
7 Egg	12	0.04	0.04	0.00	0.16	0.01	0.06	0.14
8 Fats and oils	38	0.51	0.39	0.19	1.66	0.30	0.50	1.40
9 Fish and seafood	32	0.11	0.08	0.03	0.65	0.07	0.12	0.21
10 Fruit and fruit juices	278	1.25	0.69	0.03	55.52	0.31	1.21	2.36
11 Grains and grain products	227	0.34	0.18	0.00	3.31	0.06	0.38	0.73
12 Herbal/traditional plant medicine	59	91.72	14.18	0.28	2897.11	5.66	39.67	120.18
13 Infant foods and beverages	52	0.77	0.12	0.02	18.52	0.06	0.43	1.17
14 Legumes	69	0.48	0.27	0.00	1.97	0.12	0.78	1.18
15 Meat and meat products	31	0.31	0.32	0.00	0.85	0.11	0.46	0.57
16 Miscellaneous ingredients, condiments	44	0.77	0.15	0.00	15.54	0.03	0.41	1.70
17 Mixed food entrees	189	0.19	0.16	0.03	0.73	0.11	0.23	0.38
18 Nuts and seeds	90	4.57	0.76	0.03	33.29	0.44	5.08	15.83
19 Poultry and poultry products	50	0.23	0.15	0.05	1.00	0.12	0.23	0.59
20 Snacks, biscuits	66	0.58	0.61	0.00	1.17	0.36	0.77	0.97
21 Soups, sauces gravies, dressing	251	0.63	0.41	0.00	4.67	0.25	0.68	1.27
22 Spices and herbs	425	29.02	11.30	0.08	465.32	4.16	35.25	74.97
23 Vegetables and vegetable products	303	0.80	0.31	0.00	48.07	0.17	0.68	1.50
24 Vitamin and dietary supplements	131	98.58	3.27	0.00	1052.44	0.62	62.16	316.93

^a) Categories 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14, 18, 22, 23
^b) Categories 5, 7, 9, 15, 19
^c) Categories 4, 6, 8, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21

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