
HEALTH
BENEFITS"Take 10 cherries and call me in the morning"? The day when doctors say that may not be far off. Newsweek Magazine.
Ongoing Scientific Research show that daily consumption of fruits can promote good quality of life and well-being in humans. For several years The Cherry Marketing Institute, a Michigan based cherry growers organization, has funded Scientific Research on the health benefits of cherries at Michigan State University (MSU). The Scientist have produced evidence to show that:

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Science is beginning to find out why cherries work to improve quality of life. Dietary antioxidants are believed to play a role in reducing the risk of various human degenerative diseases caused by free radicals in our bodies.
How Free Radicals Damage Our Bodies
Dear visitor, If you want to live disease free life, or minimize your exposure to disease, it is important for you to understand how free radicals damage our body and how antioxidants repair our body.
Free radicals are toxins, from the environment or by-products of digestion or drugs, believed to cause or worsen many diseases. They are not called 'radicals' for nothing. They steal electrons from our cells (building blocks of our body), creating weak unhealthy cells in the process.
Get it?:). When your cells are weak, you eventually become weak and/or sick. The way to keep free radicals from damaging your cells is to zap them with antioxidants. Free radicals want electrons, so they steal it (rip it) from your healthy cells...Folks this is how "disease" occurs...you get weak and eventually sick.
How Anti-oxidants Repair Our Bodies
If you take antioxidants, the antioxidants provide the electrons that these free radicals (molecular thieves) need so they can leave the electrons from your healthy cells alone.
Cherries contain an abundance of 17 antioxidants including anthocyanins and melatonin (an efficient antioxidant). The consumption of any tart cherry products is followed by the uptake of the antioxidants into the body where they ward off tissue destruction (referred to scientifically as oxidative stress) that could cause aging and disease.
Recent antioxidant Research findings
As we stated earlier, research on the ingredients in tart cherries have been going on for more than ten years at Michigan State University, University of Texas Health Science Center and several other independent laboratories around the world. We will like to draw your attention to most recent scientific findings.
Tart cherry juice concentrate gets highest antioxidant potency Score of all Fruits and Vegetables
Tart cherry juice concentrate has the highest ORAC values of all the fruits and vegetables recently tested, according to Brunswick Laboratories, in Wareham, MA. Dr. Boxin Ou, principal research scientist at Brunswick Laboratories who is one of the leading scientist in the United States (U.S) on phytochemicals in plant foods.
The ORAC (oxygen radical absorption capacity) test accurately quantifies the antioxidant capacities of foods by taking into account the fact that most natural products are complex mix of phytochemicals of which many are antioxidants. It is a measure of how many antioxidants are in a food product and how powerful they are. That means the antioxidants in tart cherries are more readily available to neutralize free radicals in our body.
Antioxidant Capacity of top 12 Fruits
Research conducted at Jean Mayer (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and Brunswick Laboratory, compared the ORAC values of 12 top fruits. The results show that cherry juice concentrate has over 17 times more antioxidants than red grapes.
This finding is significant considering the volume of research available on the health benefits of drinking red wine. The ORAC test results are shown below:
ORAC values for top 12 fruits in table form
|
Rank |
Fruit |
Orac
Value |
| 1 | Tart Cherry Juice Concentrate |
12000 |
| 2 | Dried tart cherries |
6800 |
| 3 | Prunes |
5770 |
| 4 | Blueberries |
2400 |
| 5 | Blackberries |
2036 |
| 6 | Frozen Tart Cherries |
2033 |
| 7 | Canned waterpack tart cherries |
1700 |
| 8 | Strawberries |
1540 |
| 9 | Raspberries |
1220 |
| 10 | Plums |
949 |
| 11 | Oranges |
750 |
| 12 | Red Grapes |
739 |
ORAC values for top 12 fruits in graphical form

ORAC values for other fruits and Vegetables
|
Rank |
Fruit/Vegetables |
Orac
Value |
| 1 | Kale |
1770 |
| 2 | Spinach |
1260 |
| 3 | Brussels Sprouts |
980 |
| 4 | Alfalfa Sprouts |
930 |
| 5 | Broccoli Florets |
890 |
| 6 | Beets |
840 |
| 7 | Red Bell Pepper |
710 |
| 8 | Sweet or "Black" cherries |
670 |
| 9 | Pink Grapefruit |
495 |
| 10 | Grapes, white |
460 |
| 11 | Onion |
450 |
| 12 | Corn |
400 |
| 13 | Tofu |
205 |
| 14 | Carrot |
200 |
| 15 | Tomato |
195 |
| 16 | Iceberg/Head Lettuce |
105 |
Drinking Tart Cherry Juice daily may help you control pain, fight and prevent some chronic diseases. It may help any health conscious people looking for the possibility of improved health and pain-free living. Tart Cherry Juice is not a "cure", but provides pain relief and increased mobility to those suffering from inflammatory conditions such as arthritis and gout, without the complications traditionally induced by the use of over the counter anti-inflammatory drugs.
There are
two main health benefits of drinking
the juice daily:
Anti-inflammatory health benefits - help you reduce inflammation/joint swelling caused by arthritis
or gout and
Antioxidant health benefits - help you fight and prevent diseases.
And may help prevent many other chronic diseases.
Anti-inflammatory Health BenefitsDrinking CHERRYJUICEPOWER tart cherry juice daily may help:
The ruby-red color of tart cherry gives it the potent antioxidant properties more superior to vitamin C and E.
Drinking CHERRYJUICEPOWER tart cherry juice daily may help: