Fruit and vegetable dietary supplement ingredient could inhibit free radical growth in humans
According to study by FutureCeuticals and International Chemistry Testing
A significant step forward has been taken in understanding the impact of fruit and vegetable-based materials on reactive oxygen species (ROS or free radicals) concentrations in humans in a new study.
Published in the Journal of Food Science and Nutrition, the study documented a collaboration between Momence, IL, US-based ingredient developer FutureCeuticals, and an antioxidant research team from International Chemistry Testing, headed by Boxin Ou, co-creator of the ORAC assay, a quality control marker and a useful tool used to measure and compare the relative antioxidant potential of fruits and vegetables.
'We wanted to understand better the relationship between diet and free radicals, and to investigate whether the total ROS in human serum can be quantified after intake of a blend of antioxidant-rich fruit and vegetable-based materials,' said Brad Evers, Director of Business Development at FutureCeuticals.
He said this study is the first of two that demonstrate how certain, well-designed combinations of fruits and vegetables at relatively low intake levels can have meaningful in vivo activity against the targets that guided the design of Spectra.
Spectra is FutureCeuticals' all-natural blend of 30 fruit, vegetable and herbal powders and extracts that have been balanced to deliver targeted antioxidant potential.
'The results of this study reveal an acute and dynamic effect from a small serving of this multi-ingredient blend,' added Boris Nemzer, FutureCeuticals Director of R&D and Quality Assurance.
'With compelling results in humans, this paper contributes provocative and novel points of discussion to the discourse on whether antioxidant potential (as measured by ORAC, for instance) correlates with free radical scavenging activity in vivo.'
According to Nemzer, a second clinical study on humans, currently under review, also showed significant activity on ROS levels and increases in nitric oxide levels.
