“…The analytical methods used for evaluation of antioxidant activity can be divided into two classes -those that involve preliminary chromatographic separation and those that do not. The first class of methods includes high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (Dapkevicius, van Beek, & Niederländer, 2001;Que, Mao, & Pan, 2006), (high performance) thin-layer chromatography (HP) TLC (Cimpoiu, 2006;Lapornik, Wondra, & Prosek, 2004), and capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) (Minussi et al, 2003). The second includes different strategies based on electronic paramagnetic resonance (EPR) (Amarowicz, Pegg, Rahimi-Moghaddam, Barl, & Weil, 2004;Stasko, Polovka, Brezova, Biskupic, & Malik, 2006) or UV-visible spectrometry (Prakash, Singh, & Upadhyay, 2007) which are based on the reaction between the antioxidant compounds and various chromogenic free radicals, especially 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) (Villano, Fernandez-Pachon, Moya, Troncoso, & GarciaParrila, 2007).…”