Het eten van groente en fruit veel beter dan supplementen met vitamines en mineralen.*

Het anti oxidatie vermogen van groente en fruit is vele malen hoger dan het eten van pillen met vergelijkbare hoeveelheden vitamines en mineralen. Het glutahion (de MASTER anti-oxidant) gehalte  stijgt alleen door het eten van groente en fruit en niet door het nemen van de vergelijkbare vitamines!

Lars O Dragsted, Anette Pedersen, Albin Hermetter, Samar Basu, Max Hansen, Gitte R Haren, Morten Kall, Vibeke Breinholt, Jacqueline JM Castenmiller, Jan Stagsted, Jette Jakobsen, Leif Skibsted, Salka E Rasmussen, Steffen Loft and Brittmarie Sandström

1 From the Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, Søborg, Denmark (LOD, MH, GRH, MK, VB, JJ, and SER); the Research Department of Human Nutrition (AP and BS) and the Department of Dairy and Food Science (LS), LMC Center for Advanced Food Studies, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark; the Institute of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, Technical University of Graz, Austria (AH); the Department of Geriatrics and Clinical Nutrition Research, University of Uppsala, Sweden (SB); the Division of Human Nutrition and Epidemiology, Department of Food Technology and Nutritional Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands (JJMC); the Danish Research Institute for Agricultural Sciences, Foulum, Denmark (JS); and the Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen (SL).

Background: Fruit and vegetables contain both nutritive and nonnutritive factors that might contribute to redox (antioxidant and prooxidant) actions.

Objective: We investigated the relative influence of nutritive and nonnutritive factors in fruit and vegetables on oxidative damage and enzymatic defense.

Design: A 25-d intervention study with complete control of dietary intake was performed in 43 healthy male and female nonsmokers who were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups. In addition to a basic diet devoid of fruit and vegetables, the fruit and vegetables (Fruveg) group received 600 g fruit and vegetables/d; the placebo group received a placebo pill, and the supplement group received a vitamin pill designed to contain vitamins and minerals corresponding to those in 600 g fruit and vegetables. Biomarkers of oxidative damage to protein and lipids and of antioxidant nutrients and defense enzymes were determined before and during intervention.

Results: Plasma lipid oxidation lag times increased during intervention in the Fruveg and supplement groups, and the increase was significantly higher in the former. Plasma protein carbonyl formation at lysine residues also increased in both of these groups. Glutathione peroxidase activity increased in the Fruveg group only. Other markers of oxidative damage, oxidative capacity, or antioxidant defense were largely unaffected by the intervention.

Conclusions: Fruit and vegetables increase erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase activity and resistance of plasma lipoproteins to oxidation more efficiently than do the vitamins and minerals that fruit and vegetables are known to contain. Plasma protein carbonyl formation at lysine residues increases because of the vitamins and minerals in fruit and vegetables. (mei 2004)  

 

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