Tweet In my article on “super”fruits I noted that many flavonoids have poor bioavailability, necessitating in vivo studies when assessing health effects- we cannot extrapolate the antioxidant capacity results of in vitro studies of flavonoid extracts to suggest that they are the reason fruits/vegetables are healthy.  This 2006 review by Lotito and Frei concluded that [...]

Tweet Recently, I wrote why “super” fruits are no better than regular fruit.  Among those reasons, is because constituents in fruit have other discovered roles beside functioning as antioxidants, and in vitro antioxidant activity does not measure these.  I do not think antioxidant activity is a major reason why fruits are good for us. A [...]

Tweet Last year was the year of the acai berry.  Mangosteen, noni, goji, and others also proliferate on the juice and supplement market.  Some are predicting what will be next.  Are these so called “superfruits”  any better than “regular” fruit? Let’s look at a few lines of evidence. What makes a fruit “super”? First of [...]