Wolfberry Benefits: Are there benefits to drinking Chinese Wolfberry juice over eating the dried NingXia wolfberries, you may ask. When wolfberries - fresh or dried - are so nutritious, why drink a juice? And isn't the power of the Ningxia wolfberry "diluted" when mixed with other ingredients in the NingXia Red™ juice?
Benefits of eating the wolfberry fruits:
I love to eat dried NingXia wolfberries. You can eat these red berries such as you would eat raisins or cranberries. I sprinkle them over my salad or mix them up in my homemade salad dressing. You can steep them in water and enjoy your Chinese wolfberry tea. Or make yourself a Wolfberry cheesecake. The recipe is available in our Young Living Cookbook.
Benefits of drinking Wolfberry Juice:
But NingXia Red
Wolfberry Juice holds more. It's the
synergistic benefit of Ningxia wolfberries together with other fruits and essential oils that make the juice more bioavailable and hence much more beneficial. Research indicates that wolfberries pass through the body undigested because many people simply don't have enough stomach acid to properly digest the wolfberries. Wolfberries in form of juice can be much better assimilated.
So why not simply drink the pure wolfberry juice? Again, the answer is the
benefit of synergy. The book by Gary Young, "Discovery of the Ultimate Superfood" holds the answer:
Discovery of the Ultimate Superfood
One of the most interesting nutrient combinations we studied for our wolfberry juice blends was a combination of foods high in ellagic acid with those also high in quercetin. According to University of Florida researchers, when quercetin is combined with ellagic acid, a far stronger anti-cancer effect is achieved than with either alone. In other words, quercetin potentiated the ability of ellagic acid to block cancer growth, in this case showing better activity against MOLT-4 leukemia cells.
A unique benefit ...
It is not clear why these two nutrients are more effective together, but the results are noteworthy. The scientists concluded, "The interaction of ellagic acid and quercetin demonstrated an enhanced anticarcinogenic potential of polyphenol combinations, which was not based solely on the additive effect of individual compounds, but rather on synergistic biochemical interactions.
So in the creation of our wolfberry juice blends we combined foods high in ellagic acid, such as pomegranate and wolfberry with those high in quercetin such as the blueberry to enhance the DNA protecting properties of the mixture. In addition to nutrient composition synergies, we discovered these juices also had synergistic antioxidant properties when combined.
The Wolfberry Juice Benefit: 2+2=7
We found that the antioxidant activity (as measured by ORAC) of certain juice combinations exceeded the sum of their parts. In other words, when wolfberry juice was combined with pomegranate juice, the ORAC values were synergistic rather than merely additive. Instead of 2+2=4, the juice blends had equations like 2+2=7. The results were so unusual that a patent was applied for on this discovery.
We also found the NingXia Red™ blend to be extraordinarily active in absorbing free radicals as measured by the S-ORAC test. We found that the strongest antioxidant synergies were combinations of wolfberry juice with either pomegranate juice, blueberry juice, or raspberry juice. Even more dramatic synergies were obtained with different proportions of the four juices combined together.
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The Chinese Wolfberry Benefit - Scientific Evidence
Scientific tests show the dramatic
benefit Chinese Wolfberry Juice has, on your health as well as on your wallet. See
ORAC and S-ORAC results for the actual benefit of the juice.
