Re: Raisins and oxidative damage prevention

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A short while ago, while discussing constipation, we recommended prunes.

Yet another reason to eat prunes (personally I luv 'em). If you look at the

file referenced below, you'll see (as Iris points out) that prunes is far

and superior in antioxidants to other foods. The next food (#2 ) is raisins

with about 1/2 the benefit.

on 1/28/2003 9:31 PM, oc9 <crsupport@...> at

crsupport@... wrote:

> http://makeashorterlink.com/?T16821243

>

> It doesn't say, but let's guess it was paid for by the raisin

> grower's association or some such. We know that the ORAC level of

> prunes is twice that for raisins, so they should work even better.

> (See the files area for the file on " Top Antioxidant Foods " .)