The game is part of a series of ten 25-minute classroom sessions in which kids make tasty virtual recipes using fruits and veggies. Then they set personal goals for making those recipes at home and for eating at least one more serving of a fruit or vegetable at a specific meal or snack. The scientists expect to finish analyzing the results of their education experiment by the end of summer 2000. Highly Variable Chances are you'll get more antioxidant protection from eating fresh fruits and vegetables than from taking natural product supplements claiming to be potent antioxidants. That's according to analyses of 46 commercial preparations by the ORAC assay.
Theory holds that such damage is behind heart disease, cancer and other diseases of aging.
So antioxidant supplements are gaining popularity. The supplements tested included bilberry, cranberry, chokeberry and elderberry extracts. A single serving of fresh or freshly cooked fruits or vegetables supplies an average of 300 to 400 ORAC units. Maybe While searching for natural compounds to control fungi in plants, ARS scientists may have stumbled onto new antibiotics against Streptococcus and Staphylococcus bacteria. Although these compounds have not been tested against human pathogens, some of them may prove as good as or better than commercial antibiotics and should interest the pharmaceutical industry.