You’ve heard a lot of talk over the past 10 or more years about super berries like Aronia Berry also known as Chokeberry. What does that mean really? Well it primarily refers to the concentration of natural antioxidants in different berries. The higher the antioxidant concentration, the higher the protection of your body.
Plants like these Aronia berries develop antioxidants, especially the category called polyphenols to protect their own cells from premature destruction primarily due to exposure to sunlight but also to heat air, moisture… So these substances in plants, in all plants, help to protect the plants so that they can grow to maturity.
We have co-evolved with plants since the beginning of time and so the polyphenols in plants also protect our cells, not all of them do it, but many do and especially the purple pigments like you see in blueberries and Acai and Maqui berries and in cranberries and especially in Aronia Berry. These purple pigments, which are known as anthocyanins, are unusually beneficial to the body. Some actually help to enhance mood, some help to protect the cardiovascular system and take blood lipids and cholesterol down. Some enhance the immune system.
They provide an immune modulating effect so if your immune function is too low, they help to bring it up and if your immune function is too high it gets brought down into a healthy normal level. The anthocyanins are also good for eyesight. They are good for a great many things and there is no berry in the world that has a greater concentration of polyphenols and the potent purple pigments, as I like to say, the antioxidants that we know as anthocyanins than aronia berry.
Aronia melanocarpa, of all the berries in terms of how we’ve been describing super over time, in terms of antioxidant richness aronia berry is the king of super berries.
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