How Do You "Measure" Antioxidants?
By "ORAC" Scores

Hopefully since you've gotten this far you are starting to get a good idea of why you should eat what you should eat to move yourself away from Gout. The missing piece of the puzzle is some foods have more antioxidant power than others.

How do we know? How do we measure it?

"Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity".

Once again, there is an enormous amount of very technical language that you can find at the likes of Wikipedia, but for our purposes I want to try to keep this simple.

ORAC scores or values were developed by scientists at the National Institutes of Health. All the studies, testing and experimentation indicate that foods with higher values have a greater ability to neutralize the effects of Free Radicals and slow down the aging process and protect from disease.

One of the most well-known companies to test for antioxidant potency is Brunswick Labs and they've been working closely with the USDA since 1997.

Depending on who you talk to, a good daily score is between 5000 and 6000 per day, but others say that 10,000 is optimal.

As a side note, it's good to try to keep your scores high because it is usually a good indicator that you're getting a healthy dose of flavonoids.

Flavonoids are measured in milligrams. (mg) 1000mg or higher is what you and I are looking for when it comes to boosting up our source of anti-inflammatory to keep the Gout away.

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