Fruit Better Than Vitamins
Posted on April 23, 2007 Comments (0)
Fruit proves better than vitamin C alone. Tests show that it isn’t just the vitamin that protects the body.
Other nutrition researchers have suggested that sugars in juice interact with vitamin C to generate the antioxidant effect2. But Guarnieri suspects that the phytochemicals found in oranges (cyanidin-3-glucoside, flavanones and carotenoids) are the substances that need further study. “But how they are interacting is still anyone’s guess,” she adds.
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