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Blueberries with their vibrant blue/purple colour is bursting with Vitamin C.
And they are ripe with an antioxidant compound called anthocyanin – whfoods labels them as antioxidant powerhouses.
But handle them carefully or you’ll end up with blue or purple fingers – and don’t spill any on your clothes.
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Acai berries – one of the most talked about or maybe even hyped superfoods.
Coming from the purple fruit of the Acai Palm (Euterpe oleracea), Acai is a potent antioxidant.
3 different studies (the PubMed links below) have all concluded Acai to have really good antioxidant properties.
“The antioxidant capacities of all purple açaí samples were found to be excellent against peroxyl radicals, good against peroxynitrite and poor against hydroxyl radicals compared with common European fruit and vegetable juices recently analysed.”
“The extracts exhibit good antioxidant capacity against peroxyl radicals, similar to the capacity of the pulp. The antioxidant capacity against peroxynitrite and hydroxyl radicals is even higher.”
Mike Adams had this to say:
“The Acai berry is one of the highest. Its ORAC score is 167, compared with 32 for blueberries and 14 for apples”
A AIBMR Life Sciences study led by Alex Schauss looked at a freeze-dried Acai product called OptiAcai and found it to have an ORAC score of 1026.9 which suggests that there’s a great difference in potency between different brands.
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Asparagus
The two strongest features of Asparagus is its high content of Vitamin K and Folate.
Folate is good for your cardiovascular system since Folate, together with Vitamin B6 and Vitamin B12, helps convert homocysteine into cysteine. Without enough Folate you’ll have a buildup of homocysteine in your bloodstream which weakens the blood vessels.
Vitamin K aids the body with blood coagulation, helps fight inflamation and helps prevent bone loss disseases such as osteopenia and osteoporosis.
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