Butylated Hydroxyanisole By Dev International

Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) is a synthetic food antioxidant used to prevent oils, fats and shortenings from oxidative deterioration and rancidity. This review depicts the current knowledge on BHA. The physical and chemical characteristics of BHA are summarized and its function as a food antioxidant is made clear. Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) is an antioxidant and used as preservative in foods, animal feed, animal and vegetable oils, petroleum products, rubber, and plastics.They donate a hydrogen atom to oxygen radicals derived from fatty acids, thus scavenging ROS. Apart from this, BHA also increases the activity of hepatic cytosolic gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase which synthesizes glutathione, an antioxidant.