“…However, more and more consumer concern over preservative safety and toxicity has led to a growing interest in natural sources of antioxidants (Devatkal et al, 2010;O'Grady, Maher, Troy, Moloney, & Kerry, 2006;Vasta & Luciano, 2011). Over the past five years, some trials have been conducted on natural, plant-based products like green tea leaves (Zhong et al, 2009), herbs (Karami, Alimon, Sazili, Goh, & Ivan, 2011), vegetables (Huang et al, 2011), fruits (Devatkal et al, 2010) and spices (Nieto, Estrada, Jordán, Garrido, & Baňón, 2011;Rojas & Brewer, 2008), which contain high levels of antioxidant components, such as polyphenol, flavonoid and polysaccharide. When fed to animals, these components can be delivered to the muscle and assist with the native defense system to counteract the action of pro-oxidants (Descalzo & Sancho, 2008;Lahucky, Nuernberg, Kovac, Bucko, & Nuernberg, 2010;Moyo et al, 2012).…”