Fruit proves better than vitamin C alone

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070416/full/070416-15.html


If you're after an antioxidant, try oranges.

If you're in the market for an antioxidant to keep your body young and healthy, new research suggests you'd be much better off with oranges than vitamin C tablets.

Although vitamin C is best known for its protection against scurvy and, possibly, the common cold (see 'Vitamin C best in the cold'), fruits rich in vitamin C are also powerful antioxidants that protect cellular DNA from being damaged by oxidation. Going without such foods leads to DNA damage long before the iconic bleeding gums of scurvy are seen.

But do vitamin C pills on their own have the same protective effect as fruit? Serena Guarnieri and a team of researchers in the Division of Human Nutrition at the University of Milan, Italy, designed a simple experiment to find out.

The team gave test subjects a single glass of blood-orange juice, vitamin-C-fortified water, or Sugar water to drink. The blood-orange juice and the fortified water had 150 milligrams of vitamin C each, whereas the Sugar water had none. Blood samples were taken from the test subjects 3 hours and 24 hours after their drink. Unsurprisingly, blood plasma vitamin C levels went up after drinking both the juice and the fortified water.


http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070416/full/070416-15.html


read the rest at the link... food is always the best source of nutrients. Grow or buy the absolute best, preferably local food available to you.
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