Strengths:

Simple and inexpensive instrumentation [84] Highly reproducible and sensitive [83] Can screen a wide spectrum of biological samples including plasma, blood, serum, saliva, tears, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, exudates, transudates, and aqueous and organic extracts of drugs, foods, and plants [85] Good correlation is usually observed with H2O2 scavenging assay [86]

Limitations:

Non-specific [83]