A strawberry is a superstar when it comes to anti-oxidant power, says Dr. Barry Sears in his book The Top 100 Zone Foods: The Zone Food Science Ranking System
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In addition, 1 cup of strawberries gives you a whopping 140 percent of your recommended daily allowance of vitamin C. Strawberries are also packed with flavonoids, two in particular, called quercetin and kaempferol. Research shows that these two flavonoids help keep “bad” (LDL) cholesterol from oxidizing and damaging artery walls.
Strawberries also contain ellargic acid — also found in raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, grapes, cherries, walnuts, pecans and Brazil nuts — which acts as a scavenger to “bind” cancer-causing chemicals, making them inactive. It inhibits the ability of other chemicals to cause mutations in bacteria. In addition, it prevents binding of carcinogens to DNA and reduces the incidence of cancer in cultured human cells exposed to carcinogens.
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Um morango é uma estrela mundial quando vem ao poder antioxidante, diz o Dr. Barry Sears em seu livro The Top 100 Zone Foods: The Zone Food Science Ranking System
Além, 1 copo das morangos dá-o que uns 140 por cento enorme de sua permissão diária recomendada de morangos da vitamina C. são embalados igualmente com as flavonóides, dois em particular, chamadas quercetina e kaempferol. A pesquisa mostra que estas duas flavonóides ajudam a manter o colesterol (LDL) “mau” das paredes oxidando e prejudiciais da artéria.
Os morangos igualmente contêm o ácido ellargic igualmente encontrado nas framboesas, nas amoras-pretas, nas airelas, nas uvas, nas cerejas, nas nozes, nos pecans e nos nozs do Brasil – que actua como um limpador “para ligar” produtos químicos cancerígenos, fazendo os inativos. Inibe a habilidade de outros produtos químicos de causar mutações nas bactérias. Além, impede a ligação dos carcinogéneos ao ADN e reduz a incidência do cancro nas pilhas humanas cultivadas expor aos carcinogéneos.
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Hi Sophie,
Very interesting , I wasn’t aware of all the good properties of Strawberries. I’ve always been a bit wary of eating them in England, this goes back to when we had all the PYO fields right next to busy roads and the plants were being given a nasty dose of lead!
Ok , so now we have unleaded fuel, but a few years ago I read (in the Telegraph I think, although I can’t find the article on the net) about the intensive cultivation methods used by Strawberry producers in Britain. These days all the Strawberries in our supermarkets are grown in huge poly-tunnels on raised beds. These beds are first treated with Methyl Bromide or Methyl Iodide, a pesticide so dangerous there are only a few contractors licensed to apply it!
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2007/09/methyl_iodide_strawberry_field.php
Organic is the only way! Keep up the good work.
Steve Caldecourt.
yes, i’d be very wary of eating non-organic strawberries. we have some friends who once worked in the polytunnels on the spanish coast growing strawberries – they were basically grown on sand as there was no soil, so you can imagine all the fertilisers etc they had to pump into it in order to grow anything. Plus of course growing only one crop in a big area attracts all kinds of pests and diseases that they are sprayed against. Our friends said they had to wear protective clothing and masks in the polytunnels. Then people eat the strawberries! Scary.