{"id":224901,"date":"2010-01-25T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/01\/25\/mango-stops-colon-and-breast-cancer-cells\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T03:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T08:06:00","slug":"mango-stops-colon-and-breast-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/224901","title":{"rendered":"Mango Stops Colon and Breast Cancer Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"It’s nice that all my favourite fruits and vegetables are slowly making their way on to the growing list of superfoods<\/a>. While there is no official list of superfoods, and indeed it seems like “the” list will vary extensively depending on where you’re getting your information, the term superfood usually designates a food that is particularly high in specific nutrients, minerals or, most commonly, antioxidants<\/a>. It’s fantastic to see natural foods like blueberries<\/a>, pomegranates<\/a> and cacao<\/a> being recognized for the healthy, nutrient-dense foods that they are.<\/p>\n

A shame, then, that one of my favourites, mango isn’t usually thought of as a superfood. Mangoes are quite good for you, and I’ve sung their praises in the past<\/a>, but their antioxidant count doesn’t come close to what an equal volume of pomegranate or blueberries or acai berries would be, and its vitamin profile is fairly standard. However, Dr. Stephen and Dr. Susanne Talcott<\/a> have started referring to mangoes as superfoods after their recent study uncovered the surprising effect the fruit has on cancer cells.<\/p>\n

Texas AgriLife Research<\/a> food scientists examined five different varieties of mango and found they all effectively stopped the growth of cancers cells in the lab. And the Talcotts tested an extract of polyphenols from mango in vitro<\/span> on colon, breast, lung, leukemia and prostate cancers. Polyphenols<\/a> are a class of natural antioxidant compounds from plants, found in high concentrations in tea<\/a>, wine, chocolate<\/a> and certain other plant foods. The Talcotts specifically looked at specific polyphenols from the mango called gallotannins as being the bioactive compounds responsible for the effect on cancer cells.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, Eat This It’s nice that all my favourite fruits and vegetables are slowly making their way on to the growing list of superfoods. While there is no official list of superfoods, and indeed it seems like “the” list will vary extensively depending on where you’re getting your information, the term […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}