BeVeryGoodMan

May 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page Antioxidant has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Eugene Krabs (talk) 15:06, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi there, you seem to be misinformed about the components of glutathione. This tripeptide contains glycine, glutamic acid and cysteine - but no methionine. Tim Vickers (talk) 03:14, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I've added a note about the pharmacological use of acetylcysteine to increase GSH, but I can't find anything about the level of sulfur-containing amino acids in food (which it the topic of this section) modulating GSH. Can you please cite some sources for your edits? Tim Vickers (talk) 16:05, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Methionine is not an antioxidant, so the levels of methionine in food is not a measure of the level of an antioxidant in food. The table and section deals with the levels of antioxidants in foods, not their various precursors. Tim Vickers (talk) 00:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Could you please provide some kind of source for your edits. The source needs to supports both the levels of these amino acids in foods and that eating these foods changes the level of antioxidants in the body. Otherwise what is the relevance of this nutritional information to antioxidants? See discussion at Talk:Antioxidant#Unreferenced_table. Tim Vickers (talk) 16:11, 26 May 2009 (UTC)