Month: November 2014

Did you know carrots were originally purple, and occasionally, yellow and white? In the late 16th century, Dutch farmers used mutant strains of the heirloom carrot, by crossing yellow and white ones, which gradually developed the common sweet orange carrot we have today.
The purple pigment in heirloom carrots is anthocyanin. Anthocyanins are a type of flavonoid, which give many fruits and vegetables their deep rich colours. They have anti-oxidant effects, and may also have anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, and even cancer-preventing effects.
Some think the reason the orange carrot became so popular in the Netherlands was in tribute to the emblem of the House of Orange and the struggle for Dutch independence. While this is possible, it also might have just been because orange carrots are sweeter and often more plump.

I responded to a friend request on one of my social media sites. She replied:
“Hullo Tom,
Thank you for your message. I will look into your interesting website and blog tomorrow, I am off to bed now, but I thought to tell you about something which just amazes me, you cannot buy iodine in the UK any more!?! All of a sudden iodine can only be bought by someone who is licensed to buy it!”
Wow! The insanity continues to accelerate!

If you want to really reduce your risk, lok into the details of the article and note what are the active ingredients in the beneificial foods.They are flavonoids (anthocyanins, flavonols and flavanones). Anthocyanin pigments and associated flavonoids have demonstrated ability to protect against a myriad of human diseases, are predominant in teas, honey, wines, fruits, vegetables, nuts, olive oil, cocoa, and cereals.
I just searched in Google for “foods highest in flavanoids” and Mr. Google returned the following:
Good sources of flavonoids include all citrus fruits, berries, ginkgo biloba, onions (particularly red onion, parsley, pulses, tea (especially white tea and green tea), red wine, seabuckthorn, and dark chocolate (with a cocoa content of seventy percent or greater).
In my top bars and powders I do not have pulses or red wine. The rest of the list are in my ingredients list.
http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/2014/October/ovarian-cancer-tea