<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\" lang=\"EN-US\">Spices are common food adjuncts, which have been used as flavoring, seasoning, and coloring agents and sometimes as preservatives throughout the world for thousands of years.</span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\'; mso-fareast-font-family: AdvPSTim; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;\"> During recent years consumers have been more concerned about the addition of synthetic additives to food and the two&nbsp; most commonly used antioxidants, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), have shown DNA damage induction Therefore, there is an increasing interest in natural food additives, such as spices or spice extracts, which can function as natural antioxidants besides seasoning the food.</span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\" lang=\"EN-US\"> They are known to possess a variety of antioxidant effects and properties. Natural antioxidants are known to protect cells from damage induced by oxidative stress, which is generally considered to be a cause of aging, degenerative diseases, and cancer</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif;\">.</span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif;\">The mountainous state of Uttarakhand is endowed with a rich variety of medicinal plants, many of which are in great demand.</span></p>
<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\', serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coriander belonging to family Umbelliferae is an herb that is widely cultivated in India and possessing nutritional as well as medicinal properties is amongst the most commonly used spices.</span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\"> <span lang=\"EN-US\">Four different genotypes of Coriander were collected from Vegetable Research Centre, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand namely Pant haritana, PD-21, PD-51 and UD-643. The present investigation was performed to evaluate the antioxidant power of different genotypes of Coriander via two methods namely DPPH free radical scavenging activity and superoxide radical scavenging activity. All the genotypes demonstrated good to moderate antioxidant activity.</span></span></p>
 
<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\" lang=\"EN-US\">Keywords:</span></strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \'Times New Roman\',\'serif\';\" lang=\"EN-US\"> Coriander, antioxidant, genotype, herbal, spices.</span></p>