Cherry Juice
There is a large variety of cherry juices on the market. Just like the other juice sorts, you should always choose a quality product for your mixed drinks, though this doesn’t necessarily have to be the most expensive.
“Take 10 cherries and call me in the morning”? The day when doctors say that may not be far off.
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:
* Montmorency tart cherries are among the fruits and vegetables with the highest antioxidant value.
* What farmers and health conscious folks have believed for years – that tart cherries offer the possibility of improved health and mobility, are true…Read what customers say in their own words
If life is like a bowl of cherries…What are you waiting for?
You can wait for official approval, or you can benefit Now
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
ORAC values for top 12 fruits in graphical form
ORAC values for other fruits and Vegetables
More Health Benefits
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.
Main Health Benefits
Drinking CHERRYJUICEPOWER tart cherry juice daily may help:
* Bring pain-relief to those who suffer from arthritis.
* Bring pain-relief to those who suffer from gout.
* Prevent certain cancers.
* Protect against heart disease.
* Prevent heart attacks or stroke.
* Prevent varicose veins.
* Fight and prevent diseases.
* Possibly slow the aging process.
* Prevent cataracts.
And may help prevent many other chronic diseases.
Anti-inflammatory Health Benefits
Research shows Tart cherry juice is 10 times more effective than aspirin in reducing pain caused by inflammation, arthritis or gout.
Drinking CHERRYJUICEPOWER tart cherry juice daily may help:
* Prevent as well as treat many kinds of pain.
* Provide some relief for joint discomfort.
* Provide some degree of free movement in arthritis affected knees, shoulders, hips, fingers, hands, elbows, wrists, ankles, back or any other joints without the usual adverse side effects of aspirin or ibuprofen on the stomach and the kidney.
* Reduce inflammation of joints.
* Improve mobility.
* Reduce headache.
Antioxidant Health Benefits
Antioxidants reduce damage done by oxygen and other free radical substances to the cells in our bodies. If left unchecked, these damages (cell death) may cause hardening of our arteries that may result in heart attack, impotence or other chronic diseases.
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:
# Fight and prevent diseases.
# Protect artery walls from damage that lead to plaque build up and heart disease. Daily consumption could cut the risk of heart attack by 30%.
# Prevent varicose veins by strengthening blood vessel walls. The stronger they are the less likely it is that varicose veins will develop.
# Provide high concentration of melatonin (higher than other plant products). Melatonin destroys free radicals that damage our cells and cause cancer.
# Flush cancer-causing substances out of the body and stunt the growth of cancerous cells. The perillyl alcohol in tart cherry juice can slash the incidence of all types of cancer as much as 50 percent.
Other antioxidant Health Benefits
# Adding tart cherries to meat help reduce the level of heterocyclic aromatic amines (HAAs), compounds that form naturally when meat cooks and are suspected of causing cancer. Try it out. Soak some meat in the juice and let it soak for awhile before cooking.
# The anthocyanins in tart cherry juice have potential to inhibit tumor growth, slow cardiovascular diseases, and possibly retard the aging process.
# Tart cherries retard spoilage of ground beef. At least one U.S manufacturer produces hamburger patties with cherries.
# May reduce factors that affect the way red blood cells clump together to form heart-stopping clots.
# Drinking tart cherry juice daily may slow development of cataract
