EO - ORAC

ORAC stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. It's a lab test that attempts to quantify the "total antioxidant capacity" (TAC) of a food by placing a sample of the food in a test tube, along with certain molecules that generate free radical activity and certain other molecules that are vulnerable to oxidation . After a while, they measure how well the sample protected the vulnerable molecules from oxidation by the free radicals. The less free radical damage there is, the higher the antioxidant capacity of the test substance. There are actually a handful of different tests designed to measure total antioxidant capacity in this way, but the ORAC is probably the best known and most popular.

Antioxident (ORAC) scores for fruits & vegetables:		Antioxident (ORAC) scores for EOs:
Carrots	210	Sandalwood (Aloes)	160
Oranges	750	Frankincense	630
Beets	840	Rose of Sharon (Cistus)	3860
Raspberries	1220	Cinnamon	10340
Strawberries	1540	Spikenard	54800
Blueberries	2400	Myrrh	379800
Wolfberries	25300	Clove	1078700