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(Poly)unsaturated fatty acids can undergo two types of photooxidation: (1) a free-radical chain reaction, which starts from the excited state of another molecule, and (2) a singlet oxygen (IO2) reaction in which the absorption of photons by molecules of another food component is followed by energy transfer to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-p"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Photoxidation - Definition of Photoxidation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oxidative degradation of a substance by photoreaction. 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