About Antioxidants

Dr. Perricone's 10 Superfoods - Superfood Number 1: Acai

"Acai pulp contains: A remarkable concentration of antioxidants that help combat premature aging, with 10 times more antioxidants than red grapes and 10 to 30 times the anthocyanins of red wine."

- Dr. Nicholas Perricone's 10 Superfoods, Oprah.com, 2005.

Detox or Die by Sherry A. Rogers MD

"When ROS (free radicals) get high enough or persist long enough, the cumulative effect is that they begin the damage that results in common disease."

- Dr. Rogers, Detox or Die, 2002.

  Read Full Article: Winning the War Against ROS

Excerpt from Açai (Euterpe oleracea): The Nutritional and Antioxidant-Rich Amazonian Palm Tree Fruit

Dr. Alexander Schauss, Ph.D., FACN

Some years ago I was the first scientist to determine the antioxidant activity of acai fruit using the oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) assay. This assay and others allowed me to discover that acai had unusually high antioxidant and scavenging activity in vitro against hydroxyl, peroxyl, peroxynitrite, and superoxide anion free radicals, compared to all of the common fruits and vegetables consumed in the United States.

The results were so striking in comparison to other food sources of antioxidants that we ultimately determined how to preserve this antioxidant activity so that the fruit could be exported in a form that would retain its benefits.

The Açai fruit has a very broad nutritional value to humans. It has remarkably high antioxidant activity. Based on new data about the antioxidant levels of American foods that was published in early 2005 by US government, data shows that Açai has significantly greater antioxidant activity on a gram to gram comparative basis than any of the common fruits or vegetables Americans consume. Thus, any juice blend rich in Açai fruit would help people meet their daily antioxidant requirements from food.

Reference: Açai (Euterpe oleracea): The Nutritional and Antioxidant-Rich Amazonian Palm Tree Fruit by Dr. Alexander Schauss. Read Full Article

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