ACTIVE OXYGEN-ELIMINATING AGENT, AND COSMETIC AND FOOD AND DRINK CONTAINING THE FORMULATED ACTIVE OXYGEN- ELIMINATING AGENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a natural active oxygen-eliminating agent having excellent active oxygen-eliminating activities based on a superoxide-eliminating activities, hydrogen peroxide-eliminating activities and free radical-eliminating activities, having high safety and prepared from an easily available raw material. SOLUTION: This natural active oxygen-eliminating agent containing a superoxide-eliminating material, a hydrogen peroxide-eliminating material or a free radical-eliminating material as an active ingredient is extracted from a flower part, a seed, a leaf part, a stem part or an aboveground part including them of a plant belonging to the genus Brassica of Brassicaceae, especially Brassica rope. The cosmetic and the food and drink contain the formulated active oxygen-eliminating agent.