Tart Cherry Rank High in ORAC

Tart Cherries: Source of Vital Antioxidants

Brunswick Laboratories, Wareham, MA recently conducted extensive nutraceutical evaluations and ORAC testing on four Montmorency tart cherry products. Dr. Boxin Ou, principal research scientist at Brunswick Laboratories and one of the leading scientists in the U.S. on phytochemicals in plant foods, filed these scientific notes on the evaluations.

Tart cherries have some of the highest ORAC values of tested fruits and vegetables. The results are per 100 grams of each product..

Dried tart cherries have 6,800 ORAC units

Frozen tart cherries have 2,033 ORAC units

Canned water-packed tart cherries have 1,700 ORAC units

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