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The pesto, this aromatic sauce to basis of basil and oil, would be a tasty means to jail the free radicals. These nasty molecules are implied in the apparition of the cardiovascular illnesses, some cancers and illnesses bound to the ageing.

Scientifically, the antioxidants of the pesto would manage to neutralize largely a radical free, named DPPH, used during experiences in laboratory.

To arrive to this conclusion, the Brazilian searcher Elizabeth Torres used a recipe chosen at the time of different gustatory tests done by volunteers. The recipe the more appreciated was this one:

3 g of garlic 47 g of basil 24 g of olive oil extravierge 14 g of walnut of the Brésil1 10 g of Parmesan cheese 2 g of salt

From this ” functional pesto”, the professeure in nutrition of the Sao Paulo university isolated the effect antioxidant of three specific ingredients:  basil, olive oil and the walnut of Brazil.

According to Elizabeth Torres, it is especially the basil that proved to be responsible for the activity global antioxydante of the pesto, counteractive the free radicals in a proportion capable to reach 88%.

According to her, these results are like those that one can get with others fine herbs, as the sage and the oregano. ” Besides, the fact to integrate such fine herbs in the returns permits to reduce the quantity of salt, what is preferable to avoid hypertension”, she/it has underlined.

However, the searcher didn’t value the effect potential synergique of the ingredients between them, especially with the garlic that shows an activity non negligible antioxydante.

” Our recipe can be considered like a good source of antioxidants, capable to be part of a healthy food. Let’s not forget that the pesto is presumably the first sauce used by the man, of the less since the ancient Greece”, concludes Elizabeth Torres.

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