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Super Foods and their Super Powers |
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Written by Knight Ridder
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006 |
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BUYER BEWARE
Not sure your chocolate is dark enough? Steven Pratt, author of “SuperFoods Healthstyles,” had mass-market chocolates tested. Here are the brands that came out on top:
- Newman’s Own Sweet Dark Dark Chocolate: 955 milligrams total polyphenols
- Dove Silky Dark Chocolate: 811 milligrams
- Endangered Species Chocolate Company Wolf Bar: 811 milligrams
- Cadbury Royal Dark Indulgent Dark Chocolate: 765 milligrams
- Hershey’s Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate: 739 milligrams
- Chocolat de Dina Extra Dark Chocolate with Green Tea: 676 milligrams
HOW SUPER FOODS MEASURE UP
How can you tell which foods have the most phytochemicals? Scientists at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston have developed the ORAC scale that measures the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity of various foods. Blueberries score 3,000 units, while dark chocolate tips the scales at 13,000 units.
Although you will not find ORAC numbers on a nutrition label, it may be only a matter of time. “To remain competitive, I think anything that touts antioxidants will need a comparison of where they are on the ORAC scale,” says Rachel Kenney, education manager for Naked Juice, a California -based super premium juice company that markets a line of “super food” and “antioxidant” beverages. | Only registered users can write comments.
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