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. 2020 Sep 17;8:e9953. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9953

Table 2. Antioxidant activity of cocoa products rich in cocoa rich in cocoa (PC), cocoa rich in dietary fibre (DFC), conventional cocoa (CC), cocoa rich in methylxanthines and cocoa (MPC) and raw un-processed cocoa (RC).

Product PC Product DFC Product CC Product MPC Product RC
Antioxidant activity
FRAP (µmol TE/µg product) n = 3 175.07 ± 1.52 75.88 ± 2.61 109.41 ± 2.33 120.12 ± 3.26 219.33 ± 6.90
ABTS (µmol TE/g product) n = 3 133.09 ± 3.70 56.64 ± 3.26 66.64 ± 6.88 89.53 ± 2.99 173.42 ± 7.53
ORAC (µmol TE/g product) n = 8 459.71 ± 9.40 234.51 ± 4.89 248.56 ± 4.32 257.39 ± 5.79 483.93 ± 19.88