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Description: Health & Healing With the Power of Plants
Health & Healing With the Power of Plants
I recently came across this video from Nutrition Facts’ YouTube page , and it blew my mind! I had never heard this before, and wanted to share it with you in case you haven’t either. If you’ve been putting bananas and berries together in your smoothies – stop!
Equally, avocados, apples or pears. If it turns brown when peeled or cut, you don’t want to eat it with anything flavonoid-rich. There is an enzyme in these fruits called polyphenol oxidase that breaks down polyphenols when the plant is damaged (that is what causes the browning) as a self-protective measure. “When exposed to oxygen…polyphenol oxidase can oxidize polyphenols into these breakdown products, which have antimicrobial activity,” according to the video.
Expressions by Loren | an outlet for processing the world around me