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Vitamins & Nutrients

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Because Preshafruit fruit mixes and juices are not cooked or heated more of the fruits vitamins, nutrients and antioxidants are retained.

Take Vitamin C for example:

Preshafruit (HPP) Valencia Orange Juice retains 85% of its Vitamin C when stored at 4 degrees C for 20 weeks compared to thermal processed orange juice which only retains 40% Vitamin C when stored at 4 degrees C.

 

Vitamins and Minerals found in fruit

Vitamins

  • A (RETINOL): Supports vision, skin, bone and tooth growth, immunity and reproduction.
  • B1 (THIAMIN): Supports energy, metabolism and nerve fuction.
  • B2 (RIBOFLAVIN): Supports energy, metabolism, normal vision and skin health.
  • B3 (NIACIN): Supports energy, metabolism, skin health, nervous system and digestive system function.
  • B6 (PYRIDOXINE): Amino acid and fatty acid metabolism, red blood-cell production.
  • C (ASCORBIC ACID): Collagen synthesis, amino acid metabolism, helps iron absorption, immunity, water-soluble antioxidant.
  • E: Fat-soluble antioxidant, regulation of oxidation reactions, supports cell membrane stabilisation.
  • FOLATE: Supports DNA synthesis and new cell formation.
  • K: Synthesis of blood-clotting proteins regulates blood calcium.

Minerals

  • CALCIUM: Formation of bones and teeth, supports blood-clotting.
  • IRON: Part of the protein Hemoglobin that carries oxygen throughout the body's cells.
  • MAGNESIUM: Helps to maintain muscles, nerves and bones. Also used in energy metabolism and protein synthesis.
  • POTASSIUM: Maintains fluid and electrolyte balance, cell integrity, muscle contractions and nerve impulse transmission.
  • ZINC: A part of many enzymes, involved in production of genetic material and proteins, transports vitamin A, taste perception, wound healing, sperm production and the normal development of the foetus.

What are Antioxidants?

Antioxidants protect the cells in your body from an unstable form of oxygen called a free radical. The antioxidant combines with the free radical to prevent it from attaching to and damaging the cells in your body. Vitamins C and E are examples of antioxidants that are present in fruit.
*University of Leuven Study, Belgium,2004