The ORAC Scale

So I have been reading about the ORAC Scale (Oxygen Radical Absorbency Capacity). In a nutshell, they measure the amount of antioxidants in food and give them a score.

It is detemermined our body needs 5000 ORAC scale units of bio-available antioxidants daily as a minimum to cope with the average rate of oxidation.

So for example, in the measurement of 100 grams, red grapes score 739. Thats about 1.5 pounds of grapes a day.

How about garlic? Garlic scores 1,939. Thats about 257 grams of garlic or a little over 1/2 a pound. Stinkoooo!

How about the beloved blueberry? 2,400 . Thats about 208 grams and a bit under 1/2 a pound. Getting better...

Let's take it up a notch. The Ningxia Wolfberry! (not the juice) This sucker is the most powerful food on earth. Yep even better than the Acaii berry. It scores 25,300! So you only need to eat 20 grams or .04 pounds. Thats like a small handfull.

Oh it gets better! Lets look at supplements...

I take vitamin E oil every day. Its gotta be the kind with Tocopherols. This stuff scores at 135,000! Thats 3.7 grams or probably one softgel.

We are not done! This one will blow you away. Clove oil... who would have thought... 10,786,875!!!!! Thats .0046 grams. Thats like less than a finger nail dab.

So, where is the list? I have 2 references (so far, still looking into it)

http://wolfberryjuice.com/antioxidants-orac-list.htm
http://www.healthdimensions.com.au/a/181.html

Now go get a vat of clove oil and live to 130!

Fri. Mar 21, 10:41am

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