Re: Antioxidant Power of Natural Product Supplements Highly Variable

Dan Hook (guldann@ix.netcom.com)
Sun, 8 Aug 1999 15:46:44 -0400

>While I tend to believe the below study under the heading: whole foods are
better for you than "manufactured" preparations. One has to chuckle on who
did the study and what they found. I would assume the US. Depart of Ag.
would prefer to find that fruits and veggies are better. I just had to
point this out in light of all the "bias" in scientific research threads
lately (of which I agree there are). I do like the closing paragraph though
our greens and beets are growing quite nicely. Beth

vegetables than from taking natural product supplements claiming to be
>potent antioxidants. That's according to analyses of 46 commercial
>preparations by researchers with the Agricultural Research Service, the
>chief scientific agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
>
>snip
>The researchers point out that a single serving of fresh or freshly cooked
>fruits or vegetables supplies an average of 300 to 400 ORAC units. Many
>fruits and vegetables--such as berries, plums, oranges, leafy greens and
>beets--provide much higher antioxidant levels. By contrast 28 of the 40
>berry extracts tested and one of the six other products wouldn't provide
300
>ORAC units in a day's suggested intake.
>
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>Scientific contacts: Ronald L. Prior, phone (617) 556-3311, or Guohua Cao,
>phone (617) 556-3141, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at
Tufts
>University, Boston, Mass., fax (617) 556-3299, prior@hnrc.tufts.edu,
>cao_am@hnrc.tufts.edu.
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