Ethoxyquin: An Antioxidant Used in Animal Feed

Table 5

Comparison of different activities of ethoxyquin and its derivatives based on the data presented by Błaszczyk and Skolimowski [19, 71, 80–82] and Błaszczyk et al. [79].

Activitity	Activity from the lowest (left) to the highest (right) one
Cytotoxicity	EQ-F < EQ-HCl < EQ-C < EQ-S < EQ-T < EQ-Q < EQ-R < EQ-H < EQ
Genotoxicity	EQ-F < EQ-C < EQ-H < EQ-HCl < EQ-Q < EQ-T < EQ-S < EQ-R < EQ
Antioxidant activity	EQ-F < EQ-HCl < EQ-R < EQ-T < EQ-S < EQ-C < EQ-Q < EQ < EQ-H

EQ-F: ethoxyquin phosphate; EQ-HCl: ethoxyquin hydrochloride; EQ-C: ethoxyquin L-ascorbate; EQ-S: ethoxyquin salicylate; EQ-T: ethoxyquin salt of Trolox C; EQ-Q: ethoxyquin complex with quercetin; EQ-R: ethoxyquin complex with rutin; EQ-H: ethoxyquin 𝑛-hexanoate; EQ: ethoxyquin.