EVALUATION OF FOOD PROCESSING AND STORAGE CONDITIONS ON ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY LEVELS (USING DPPH ASSAY) A thesis submitted to the Department of Life and Physical Sciences of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology as a partial fulfilment of the Bachelor’s degree in Applied Biology and Biopharmaceutical Science. Submitted: 18 th March 2016 ©Mirella Amarachi Ejiugwo