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Best Antioxidant Foods To Eat

Fruit and Chocolate Rank High

Antioxidant foods cause bio-chemical reactions (antioxidant activity) in the body. This antioxidant activity comes from polyphenols, flavonoids and other microscopic plant nutrients (called phytonutrients as a group, phyto = plant).

In an USDA Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) study of over 275 plant foods these 20 foods proved to give the most antioxidants health benefits per a typical serving.

	Food	Serving Size	Fiber (grams)
1.	Baking Chocolate, unsweetened	1 square	4.8
2.	Elderberries, raw	1/2 cup	5.1
3.	Apples, Red Delicious (raw with skin)	1 medium	5.0
4.	Apples, Granny Smith (raw with skin)	1 medium	5.0
5.	Juice, Pomegranate, 100%	1 cup	0.2
6.	Candies (dark chocolate)	1 ounce	2.0
7.	Plums, dried (prunes) uncooked	1/2 cup	6.2
8.	Wine, table red	5 fluid ounces	0.0
9.	Artichokes, boiled	1/2 medium	5.2
10.	Apples (raw with skin)	1 medium	4.4
11.	Cranberries, raw (whole)	1/2 cup	2.3
12.	Prune juice, canned	1 cup	2.6
13.	Pears, raw	1 medium	5.5
14.	Apples, Gala (raw with skin)	1 medium	3.7
15.	Candies, semisweet chocolate	1 ounce	1.7
16.	Nuts, pecans	1 ounce	2.7
17.	Plums, black diamond (raw with peel)	1 fruit	0.9
18.	Apples, Golden Delicious, (raw with skin)	1 medium	4.4
19.	Blueberries, raw	1/2 cup	1.8
20.	Apples, Red Delicious, (raw without skin)	1 medium	2.1

If your favorite food did not make the top 20 list — many other foods stimulate antioxidant activity that may be more to your taste:

Fruits (avocado, pear, prune, date, raisin, fig, cherry)
Berries (blackberry, strawberry, raspberry)
Potatoes (russet, red, white)
Vegetables (Broccoli raab, red cabbage, spinach)
Beans (small red, red kidney, pinto, black, navy)
Nuts (pecan, hazelnut, pistachio, Brazil nut,walnut, cashew)

Seasonings and spices and simple high fiber cereal products make it easy to boost the antioxidants in your diet.

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Content derived from:
Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center

Nutrition based on data assembled from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.
g=grams, mg=milligrams, mcg=micrograms, kcal=calories