Experiment results were released by the journal Nature, one of the project leaders, Professor Rui Hai Liu, explained how the combination of these substances gives this fruit anticancer activity, not individual action from them.

In the laboratory investigations are often conducted on plants for identification and isolation of phytochemicals with anticarcinogenic properties contained therein. Scientists are interested in isolating and defining the benefits of components such as vitamin C, vitamin E and beta carotene, among others.

The ingestion of tablets can be replaced by eating fresh fruits

Researchers have found that most of the antioxidant effects of apples are given by the action of phytochemicals, while vitamin C is responsible for only a small part of that activity. Several studies in this field has shown that eating 100 grams. fresh apple skin provides the body with the same amount of antioxidant intake of 3 tablets of 500 milligrams of vitamin C each. Antioxidants are useful in preventing damage to cells and tissues caused by oxidation. Liu explains the specialist can get enough antioxidants from foods (fruits and vegetables) without worrying about their toxicity, and is better than taking pills.

Her research also aims to test the importance of phytochemicals to human health because some of them contain known anti-allergenic properties, but there are other phytochemicals that have anti-cancer properties, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral and anti -proliferative.

Laboratory reports confirmed us its benefits

A group of American professionals and scientists tried colon cancer cells with apple extract and discovered that, inhibited the proliferation of cancer cells. Divide the apple skin and flesh, the results were that apple skin extract inhibited by 43 percent and pulp cancer by 29 percent. In the case of liver cancer, skin extract inhibited the cancer cells by 57 percent and pulp extract by 40 percent.

These results were met with optimism by the American Cancer Society, but chose these findings with caution. They consider it too early to say exactly which substances in apples give this protection, saying that by the time that the best way to decrease the risk of cancer is eating enough fresh fruits and vegetables. “