Super fruits, super marketing.
Last year was the year of the acai berry. Mangosteen, noni, goji, and others also proliferate on the juice and supplement market. Some are predicting what will be next. Are these so called...
View ArticleBioavailability & pharmacokinetics of anthocyanins from cranberry juice
Recently, I wrote why “super” fruits are no better than regular fruit. Among those reasons, is because constituents in fruit have other discovered roles beside functioning as antioxidants, and in...
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Uric acid, not flavonoids increases antioxidant capacity from (apple) juice
In my article on “super”fruits I noted that many flavonoids have poor bioavailability, necessitating in vivo studies when assessing health effects- we cannot extrapolate the antioxidant capacity...
View ArticleQuercetin paradox in a complex antioxidant network
This is sort of a random post, but I remember coming across this paper from 2007 awhile back titled “The quercetin paradox” that shows how quercetin protects against some oxidative damage in a lung...
View Article“Antioxidants” in chocolate (and fruit): don’t buy the hype
Last week, just in time for Valentine’s day (clever science marketing or lucky peer review speed?), Hershey announced that cocoa is a “super fruit” with a paper in the Chemistry Central Journal (open...
View ArticleDietary sulforaphane reduces oxidative stress in diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is characterized by increased oxidative stress, which may result in vascular pathologies (Bekyarova, Ivanova, and Madjova, 2007). Certain dietary phytochemicals may ameliorate oxidative...
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Strawberry polyphenols mitigate very high dietary fructose-induced metabolic...
This was an interesting paper that has been sitting in my drafts for awhile, so here is a quick post on it. By Jaroslawska et al., it directly examines the ability of strawberry pomace (leftover from...
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