The active ingredient in cloves is eugenol, a natural pain reliever that's also used in some OTC pain rubs. Rubbing a tiny amount of clove oil on your gums may temporarily ease toothache pain until you can get to a dentist.
Out of the five antioxidant properties tested, cloves had the highest capacity to give off hydrogen, reduced lipid peroxidation well, and was the best iron reducer, Juana Fernández-López, one of the authors of the study and a researcher at the UMH, tells SINC.
The results show that use of the natural oxidants occurring in spices used in the Mediterranean diet, or their extracts, is a viable option for the food industry, as long as the organoleptic characteristics of the food product are not affected", adds the researcher. These substances exhibit high antioxidant capacity, and could have beneficial effects for health", says the researcher.
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