Sunlight is Damaging to plants ☀️ 🌱 But they need light to make their food So how do they deal with that? UV light from the sun can create free radicals through a process called oxidation Electrons get knocked out of the molecular structure, which can change its shape, making them unable to perform the important functions of parts of the the cell like DNA and cell structure To counteract this, plants produce antioxidants in the form of anthocyanins and carotenoids which donate an extra electron