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Antioxidant vs Preservative - What's the difference?

antioxidant | preservative |

As adjectives the difference between antioxidant and preservative

is that antioxidant is acting or having agents that act against oxidation while preservative is .

As a noun antioxidant

is any substance that acts to slow or prevent the oxidation of another chemical.

antioxidant

English

(wikipedia antioxidant)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any substance that acts to slow or prevent the oxidation of another chemical.
  • In nutrition, one of a group of vitamins that act against the effects of free radicals.

    • Antonyms

    * oxidant

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Acting or having agents that act against oxidation.

    • preservative

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) any agent, natural or artificial that acts to preserve, especially when added to food
    • Salt, sugar, and acid all act as preservatives when making pickles.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • tending to preserve
    • The curators took preservative actions to maintain the ancient collection.