Occurrence of Leuco-Anthocyanin in Sour and Sweet Cherries

Anthocyanin content, lipid peroxidation and cyclooxygenase enzyme inhibitory activities of sweet and sour cherries.

Cherries contain bioactive anthocyanins that are reported to possess antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antidiabetic and antiobese properties. The present study revealed that red sweet cherries contained cyanidin-3-O-rutinoside as major anthocyanin (>95%). The sweet cherry cultivar "Kordia" (aka "Attika") showed the highest cyanidin-3-O-rutinoside content, 185 mg/100 g fresh weight. Th...

Sweet and sour: unraveling diabetic vascular disease.

Diabetes is the epidemic of the 21st century.1 Rare in the past, diabetes has grown into an increasingly common disease both in developed countries and most recently also in the third world. The most important factor for this unforeseen trend appears to be the increase in body weight around the world attributable to the changes in lifestyle over the last decades.2 It is likely that the increasi...

A less sour sweet; blocking galectin.

Tight glucose control: sweet or sour?

Introduction: The debate about the potential benefi ts of tight glucose control in intensive care patients has been ongoing since the exciting initial single-center study by Van den Berghe et al. [1], which demonstrated reduced mortality in patients managed according to a protocol aimed at maintaining blood glucose between 80 and 110 mg/dL compared with the then-standard goal of less than 215 m...

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