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Raspberry plants classified in the genus Rubus, and includes several species, which include R. idaeus, R. arcticus, R. crataegifolius, and R. occidentalis. Raspberry fruit is an important agricultural commodities used in the manufacture of various processed foods such as dried fruits, jams, and juices, or eaten as fresh fruit.
Raspberry fruit contains many antioxidant polyphenols, such as the pigment anthocyanin. In addition it also contained significant amounts of dietary fiber (20% fiber per total weight), vitamin C, manganese, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, folic acid and iron.
Content of antioxidants in relatively strong raspberry fruit, this is caused by the dense content of ellagic acid (from elagotanin), quercetin, gallic acid, anthocyanins, sianidin, pelargonidin, kaempferol, and salicylic acid. Content of antioxidants in fruit that is yellow less than red fruit.
Because of the many antioxidants vitamin C and polyphenols as described above, then the fruit is given a value of ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) is around 4900 per 100 grams. This makes the raspberries become one of the fruits that have high ORAC value. For comparison, the apple only has approximately 2800 ORAC value, and cranberries and wild blueberries have the ORAC value of 9000.
The properties to overcome the following diseases have been obtained from various experiments, although there has been no clinical trials to further strengthen this claim, however medical research has shown the benefits of early stage regularly consuming raspberries to overcome this disease: inflammation, pain, cancer, diseases heart disease, diabetes, allergies, reduced cognitive abilities due to aging, and impaired vision due to age.
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