Antioxidants
Antioxidants are one of food’s good guys; they work to protect your body from disease, infection and ageing. So it’s good to know then, that prunes have more antioxidants than any other fruit or vegetable tested.*
Free radicals.... the bad guys
Your body uses oxygen to help fuel metabolism; as it does it produces oxidising chemicals called free radicals. These degrade and damage your body’s cells, dramatically reducing your defences and leaving you more susceptible to premature ageing and disease, including heart disease and cancer.
To the rescue.... antioxidants
The only way to defend ourselves against the destructive action of free radicals is with protective chemicals known as antioxidants. Antioxidants, nutrients that are found in all plant foods, help neutralise the oxidative process by ‘wrapping’ a protective coat around each and every one of our cells preventing free radical action. If we don’t have enough antioxidants, the free radicals can access our cells and damage them.
What can you do?
Eat your way to better health with Sunsweet® prunes. Research reveals that prunes have more antioxidants than any other fruit and vegetables tested*. In fact, this research shows prunes to have an ORAC* rating of 5,770/100g; that’s more than double those of raisins and blueberries and more than the recommended 3,000 – 5,000 daily ORAC units.
*ORAC - Oxygen Radical Adsorption Capacity - a measure of each food's ability to neutralise free radicals and protect the body from ageing, heart disease, cancer and other degenerative conditions. Source: ORAC Antioxidant Analysis from the Human Nutrititon Centre at Tufts University in Boston, USA.
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