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Dried Fruits: Excellent in Vitro and in Vivo Antioxidants

Chemistry Department, University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Comparison of quantity of total polyphenols in fresh and the corresponding dried fruit on a dry weight basis.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2. Comparison of quality of antioxidants of vitamins and dried fruits (mean ± standard deviation). Dried fruit extracts from several sources of dates and raisins were pooled prior to assay.

View larger version (13K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3. Lipoprotein-bound antioxidant activity of fig phenols after spiking in plasma at different concentrations and determination of the lag time of LDL+VLDL oxidation.

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Fig. 4. The average change in plasma antioxidant capacity after consumption of either control (SpriteTM) or figs and SpriteTM (mean ± standard error of the mean) for 10 subjects, * p < 0.01 by a paired t-test.