Nowadays the only plant used to source SOD is melon. Researches performed at the Industrial Chemistry Lab of Bologna University allowed to quantify the amount of SOD in several plants. Based on the results of these researches, it is shown that carrots have a SOD content far higher than other plants and 10x compared with SOD in melon.
In particular, Superox-D is:
- SOD Activity > 11.000 U/gram;
- kcat ~ 1.000.000.000 (number of superoxide radicals inactivated per second).