But here's the best part: cacao powder has 40 times the antioxidant
content than blueberries.
Not exact matches
Raw cacao is a superfood that increases your energy and state of bliss, helps boost your immunity, and satisfies your chocolate cravings — it also improves skin texture and helps prevents wrinkles with almost four times the antioxidant
content of regular processed dark chocolate, and 20 times more
than blueberries.
Raw cacao actually contains four times the antioxidant
content of regular processed dark chocolate and 20 times more
than blueberries.
Results from this study showed that
blueberries grown organically had a significantly higher sugar
content (fructose and glucose), malic acid, total phenolics, total anthocyanins, and antioxidant activity (ORAC)
than fruit grown conventionally.
There are lots of other changes this represents too, such as the presence of chemicals in our food supply (pesticides, herbicides, xenoestrogens, etc) that didn't exist in the ancient diet, as well as the dramatic changes caused by hybridization of many of our foods, which creates versions of fruits and vegetables bred more for size, sweetness, and appearance as opposed to natural nutrition... this aspect has decreased micronutrient
content in the modern day food supply (just look at wild
blueberries vs cultivated
blueberries as an example of that with wild berries coming in at more
than DOUBLE the antioxidants from ORAC testing).
According to one study, purple sweet potatoes have more
than three times the antioxidant activity
than that of one
blueberry.22 In addition to sweet potatoes» antioxidant
content, these vegetables are also great sources of vitamins C and B5, copper, dietary fiber, niacin, potassium, and iron.23