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it is orange juice--specifically, the juice of the Satsuma mandarin
orange of Japan--that showed the most powerful result: keeping
hepatitis-C infected patients from developing liver cancer.
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SCIENCE NEWS
September 11, 2006
Breakfast Foods Deliver Buffet of Health Benefits

A darker than usual, mildly fruity muffin made from wine waste could
prove effective in protecting your health. Scientists at the University

of Maryland have shown that the leftovers of chardonnay wine production

can stop the growth of colon cancer cells in vitro as well as inhibit
the growth of E. coli and other bacteria when used as a preservative.
And when grape and other fruit seeds are turned into flour, they
"naturally carry some fruit flavor," says Liangli "Lucy" Yu. "All
contain significant levels of natural antioxidants."
The fruit seed findings are just one of several food-related health
findings presented yesterday at the American Chemical Society meeting
in San Francisco. Yu's group also examined the possibility of using
enzymes to improve the health benefits of whole wheat--the most
consumed cereal grain in the world. Using a commercially available
solid-state enzyme known as Ultraflo L on Akron wheat, the researchers
increased the available amounts of two antioxidants in the wheat bran.
"Most bioactive compounds are concentrated in bran," Yu notes.

The goodness of wheat may be concentrated in bran, but the goodness of
fruit seems evenly blended. Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic
Institute showed that cranberry juice, a popular cure for urinary tract

infections, contain tannins known as proanthocyanidins that can prevent

E. coli from establishing an infection. The tannins had multiple
effects on the bacteria, including changing its shape, altering its
cell membranes and interfering with its intracellular communication.

But it is orange juice--specifically, the juice of the Satsuma mandarin

orange of Japan--that showed the most powerful result: keeping
hepatitis-C infected patients from developing liver cancer. The orange
has unusually high levels of an antioxidant known as
beta-cryptoxanthin. This compound, when painted on to mice with skin
cancer, reduced tumors significantly and, when fed to rats with colon
cancers, cut tumor development. Also, 30 hepatitis C patients who drank

190 milliliters of mandarin orange juice fortified with extra
beta-cryptoxanthin to a three-milligram level failed to develop liver
cancer compared with 8.9 percent of 45 patients who did not drink the
juice. "This is very cheap, and it seems it works," says Hoyoku Nishino

of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, who led the research,
which will continue for four more years.
Such research into so-called nutraceuticals or functional foods has
proved a boon for pharmaceutical research directions as well as
immediate treatment. An apple a day might keep the doctor away, but it
might not hurt to add a mandarin orange, a fruit seed flour muffin,
whole wheat toast and some cranberry juice, too. --David Biello

Who loves ya.
Tom

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