How Fruit Juice "Lights Up Our Brain"

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Why do people who drink fruit and vegetable juice have a 76% lower risk of developing Alzheimer's? With thousands of phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables, see how juices light up your brain.

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It's one thing to show Alzheimer's benefits in a Petri dish; it's quite another to show benefit in a human population.

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That came two years later. About 1800 people were followed for about eight years. In the beginning of the study, they asked how often everyone drank any kind of juice, and then sat back and watched to see who would get Alzheimer's.

By the end of the study, it appeared that those who drank fruit and vegetable juices had a 76% lower risk of developing Alzheimer's.

They conclude that fruit and vegetable juices may play an important role in delaying the onset of Alzheimer's disease. What could it be?

Here's the nutrition facts label for purple grape juice, on the left. According to the label, there's basically nothing in it.

Not even any vitamin C.

And indeed, that's what the study found even after controlling for antioxidant vitamin intake: vitamin E, vitamin C, beta carotene.

Still, a quarter the risk of Alzheimer's.

Based on the nutrition label, you'd think it was just sugar water. Practically indistinguishable from Coca-Cola.

In fact, the grape juice has got even more sugar: nine spoonfuls per cup, compared to seven in Coke.

But it just looks like sugar water because the labels don't list phytonutrients.

If they did, the Coke label would remain the same, but the grape juice label would spill down and roll along the floor, like Santa's list - and this would just be the first page!

There are thousands of phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables - missing in junk foods and animal foods - yet never listed on the labels.

The leading candidate (class of compounds) responsible for the protection against Alzheimer's, are the phenolics - like flavones and flavanones and flavonols, which in many cases, can rapidly cross the blood-brain barrier.

There are more than 5,000 different types of flavonoids in the plants we eat.

Research suggests that within minutes of biting into an apple, for example, these phytonutrients are already starting to light up our brain.

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