Acai Antioxidants

Talcott believes this may have been caused by the high amount of antioxidants contained in berries. The studies found that acai antioxidant levels are the highest antioxidant levels of any food, as measured by the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC), the scale used to measure antioxidant activity.

While the findings do not prove that compounds in açai berries may prevent leukaemia in people, the researchers were optimistic.

"This was only a cell-culture model and we don't want to give anyone false hope," Talcott said. "We are encouraged by the findings, however. Compounds that show good activity against cancer cells in a model system are most likely to have beneficial effects in our bodies."

We live in a stressful world, any stress we put on our body from unhealthy foods, polluted air, smoking, etc. can cause free radicals. A free radical is any atom or molecule that has a single unpaired electron in an outer shell – the fact that it does not have a full outer shell makes it very unstable and aggressive to get missing electrons from atoms with a full outer shell. This starts chain reactions, called oxidation, damages cells and has been linked to a range of disorders including cancer, arthritis, diabetes, etc. Antioxidants terminate the oxidation process by giving the extra electron to the free radical so it becomes a stable oxygen molecule again.

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