| | ACEROLA & CAMU-CAMU
450 mg CAPSULES
ANTIOXIDANT FORMULA
Acerola and Camu-Camu Formula is known as a powerful
antioxidant, and a power source of natural Vitamin C, which plays an important
role in many areas of the body.
ACEROLA
Common Names:
Barbados Cherry, West Indian Cherry, Cereza, Cerisier, Semeruco
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
Acerola (Malpighia glabra), also
known as Barbados Cherry or Wild Crapemyrtle, is a
tropical
fruit-bearing shrub or small
tree in the
family Malpighiaceae,
native to the West Indies and
northern South America. It
grows to 3 m tall, with a dense, thorny
crown. The
leaves are evergreen, simple
ovate-lanceolate, 5-10 cm long, with an entire margin. The
flowers
are produced in umbels of 2-5 together, each flower 1-1.5 cm diameter,
with five pink or red petals.
The fruit is bright red, 1 cm
diameter, containing 2-3 hard seeds. It is sweet and
juicy, and very high in vitamin C and other
nutrients. Although resembling a cherry, it is unrelated to the true
cherry
(Prunus).
Cultivation and uses
The fruit is edible and widely consumed in the
species' native area, and is cultivated elsewhere for its high vitamin C
content.
In the 1950s, a manufacturer of
baby food decided that apple juice was
milder for infants than orange juice. The
company claimed that a drop of acerola juice in an 8 oz. can of apple
juice provided the amount of vitamin C of an equal
amount of orange juice.
In Puerto Rico, the
acerola is so prized that custom officials exercise considerable
precaution to prevent exporting of acerola cuttings
CAMU-CAMU
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
The Camu camu (Myrciaria dubia),
also known as CamuCamu, Cacari, and Camocamo, is a
small (approx. 3 m tall) bushy river side
tree from
the Amazon rain
forest region of Peru and Brazil, which bears a
red/purple cherry like fruit. Its small flowers
have waxy white petals and sweet smelling aroma. It has bushy feathery
foliage. The evergreen, opposite leaves are lanceolate to elliptic.
Individual leaves are 3 - 20 cm in length and 1 - 2 cm wide.
It is a close relative of the
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) and the
Guavaberry or Rumberry (Myrciaria
floribunda).
Description
Long used by native peoples, wild camu-camu is
harvested directly into canoes. The fruit has only recently come into
large-scale cultivation and sale to the world market with
Japan
being the major buyer. It is relatively easy to cultivate. It survives
best in hot, damp tropical climates but will grow in the subtropics,
surviving temperatures down to just above freezing. It requires copious
water and withstands flooding. Trees begin to bear fruit after about 4
to 6 years.
Its fruit contains about 2800 mg of
Vitamin C per 100 g of fruit, or almost 60 times the concentration
of oranges.
Uses
The nutritious pulp has a citrus taste and is
traditionally prepared into a refreshing drink . It is more recently
also used in, ice creams, sweets,
etc.
Processed powder from the fruit pulp is beginning
to be sold in the west as a health food in loose powder or capsule form.
In addition to the high vitamin C content it contains the
amino acids valine,
leucine
and serine,
and is also rich in flavonoids.
Antioxidant activity of dietary fruits, vegetables, and
commercial frozen fruit pulps.
Hassimotto NM,
Genovese MI,
Lajolo FM.
Laboratorio de Quimica, Bioquimica e Biologia Molecular de Alimentos,
Departamento de Alimentos e Nutricao Experimental, FCF, Universidade de Sao
Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 580, Bloco 14, 05508-900 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Fruits, vegetables, and commercial frozen pulps (FP) consumed in the Brazilian
diet were analyzed for antioxidant activities using two different methods, one
that determines the inhibition of copper-induced peroxidation of liposome and
another based on the inhibition of the co-oxidation of linoleic acid and
beta-carotene. The anthocyanin-rich samples showed the highest,
concentration-dependent, antioxidant activities in both systems. In the liposome
system, at both 10 and 50 microM gallic acid equivalent (GAE) addition levels,
the neutral and acidic flavonoids of red cabbage, red lettuce, black bean,
mulberry, Gala apple peel, jambolao, acai FP, mulberry FP, and the acidic
flavonoids of acerola FP showed the highest antioxidant activities (>85%
inhibition). In the beta-carotene bleaching system, the samples cited above plus
red guava gave inhibition values >70%. On the other hand, some samples showed
pro-oxidant activity in the liposome system coincident with a low antioxidant
activity in the beta-carotene system. There was no relationship between total
phenolics content, vitamin C, and antioxidant activity, suggesting that the
antioxidant activity is a result of a combination of different compounds having
synergic and antagonistic effects.
PMID: 15826041 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Biological activity of barbados cherry
(acerola fruits, fruit of Malpighia emarginata DC) extracts and fractions.
Motohashi N,
Wakabayashi H,
Kurihara T,
Fukushima H,
Yamada T,
Kawase M,
Sohara Y,
Tani S,
Shirataki Y,
Sakagami H,
Satoh K,
Nakashima H,
Molnar A,
Spengler G,
Gyemant N,
Ugocsai K,
Molnar J.
Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan. motohasi@my-pharm.ac.jp
Fractionation of barbados cherry (acerola fruit, a fruit of Malpighia emarginata
DC.) extracts were performed by organic solvent extractions and column
chromatographies, using two extraction methods. Higher cytotoxic activity was
concentrated in fractions A4 and A6 (acetone extract), and H3 and HE3 (hexane
extract). These four fractions showed higher cytotoxic activity against tumor
cell lines such as human oral squamous cell carcinoma (HSC-2) and human
submandibular gland carcinoma (HSG), when compared with that against normal
cells such as human periodontal ligament fibroblasts (HPLF) and human gingival
fibroblasts (HGF). HE2 (hexane extract), AE2 (ethyl acetate extract), AE3, AE4,
AE5, A8, A9 and A10 showed some relatively higher anti-bacterial activity on the
Gram-positive Staphylococcus epidermidis ATCC 1228 but were ineffective on the
representative Gram-negative species E. coli and Ps. aeruginosa. The fractions
were inactive against Helicobacter pylori, two representative Candida species,
and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). H3, H4 and HE3, which displayed higher
tumor-specific cytotoxicity also showed higher multidrug resistance (MDR)
reversal activity, than (+/-)-verapamil as positive control. ESR spectroscopy
shows that the radical-mediated oxidation is not involved in the induction of
tumor-specific cytotoxic activity. The tumor specific cytotoxic activity and MDR
reversal activity of barbados cherry may suggest its possible application for
cancer therapy. Copyright 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
PMID: 15103668 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Content (per capsule):
Acerola dry extract ----» 217,5 mg
Camu-camu dry extract ----» 217,5 mg
Dose recommended : 2 capsules a day
| OVER x UNITS |
UNIT PRICE |
| 2 |
$ 15.75 |
| 5 |
$ 14.00 |
| 10 |
$ 13.20 |
| 20 |
$ 12.25 |
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