Abstract:[Background] Aging and some diseases of organism are mostly related to oxidation, with the further research of antioxidant, the safety of synthetic antioxidants is called into question. So the research for natural antioxidants has become a hot topic. [Objective] To screen for Lactobacillus with high antioxidant activity from air dried mutton and to analyze their antioxidant capacity in vivo and in vitro. [Methods] Taking 24 strains of meat-derived Lactobacillus as research objects, the ability of scavenging free-radical, chelating ferrous ion, reducing and anti-lipid peroxidation were used as the indexes for analyzing the antioxidant capacity in vitro. The 16S rRNA gene sequence homology analysis was used to identify the species, and its antioxidant activity in vivo was studied in mice. [Results] All of strains that we tested had anti-oxidation ability in vitro, among them, strain of TR13 had the strongest anti-oxidation ability, its scavenging activity of ·O2? was 54.29%, and scavenging activity of hydroxyl radical was 90.84%, the scavenging activity of DPPH radical was 99.38%, the chelation rate of ferrous ion was 55.85%, the ability to reduce was 1.345, the rate of detecting anti-lipid peroxidation was 39.99%. The strain of TR13 was identified as Lactobacillus helveticus according to the 16S rRNA gene identification. Feeding D-galactose-induced aging mice with TR13 bacterial solution verified that TR13 could promote the activity of glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) in liver, kidney, and blood tissues of mice significantly, and the GSH-Px activity of TR13 group was significantly higher than that of vitamin C (Vc) group. [Conclusion] The strain of TR13 can effectively prevent oxidative aging for body, and the result can provide reference for researching Lactobacillus antioxidants.