Morlife Anti-Ox Reds makes a delicious fortified nutritious drink bursting with fruit goodness. It is a fortified functional food containing a synergistic blend of superfoods, which provides a comprehensive range of naturally occurring phytonutrients, especially red pigments, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants with added extra nutrients.
Features:
- Contains 21 natural superfoods which focus on the red pigments found in fruit and vegetables
- Fortified with 11 added beneficial nutrients including vitamins, minerals & bioflavonoids
- Also contains the basic nutrients, such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals.
- Red Pigments provide a range of phytonutrients including: carotenoids, flavonoids, lignans, isothiocyanates & indoles, phenols, saponins, sulfides and so on.
Specifications:
- Suggested Use
- Mix 1-3 teaspoons up to 3 times daily of Anti-Ox Reds into juice, milk shake, smoothie, salads, dressings or other food. Children ½ to 1 teaspoon daily.
When striving for wellness, it is easy to overlook common foods with remarkable health benefits and instead desire expensive ‘miracle cures', especially those condoned by celebrities. It can be a surprise that some of the ‘super foods' that we desire may already be sitting in our fridge or growing in our vegetable garden. An example of this lies in the healing potential of common fruits and vegetables. For example, the humble tomato has been shown to help prevent prostate cancer - the third most common cancer to affect males, whilst strawberries and blueberries may help prevent cardiovascular disease and premature aging.
If you tend to skip meals and opt for a multivitamin pill to supply essential nutrients, you may ask why regularly consuming fruit and vegetables is important. The main answer lies in the naturally occurring plant chemicals or polyphenols. Whilst it is possible to manufacture essential vitamins and minerals in a laboratory to make a multivitamin pill, many other unique plant chemicals are too complex to recreate. Therefore even though taking a multivitamin daily is recommended for good health, it is also important that you consume foods that supply a range of other beneficial plant chemicals, especially antioxidant compounds.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are rich sources of antioxidant vitamins, minerals and polyphenols. Polyphenols are brightly coloured plant chemicals that have beneficial health properties. In fact, different fruits and vegetable have different polyphenols, which have different actions in the body. There is no substitute for a healthy diet, but to help you out there are now some functional food products available that offer a combination of antioxidant foods together with essential vitamins and minerals. Taken together with a healthy diet, this combination will ensure that your daily antioxidant intake is sufficient.
Antioxidants - Why are they so important?
Antioxidants are molecules that reduce or inhibit damage by free radicals thereby preventing oxidative stress. Free radicals are unstable molecules that are produced naturally in our body every day as part of our normal metabolism. They are also created by a number of external factors including UV light, radiation, infections, medications, heavy metals, pollution and synthetic chemicals, to name a few. As you can see, although we can minimise the causes of free radical production, it is impossible to avoid them completely.
Antioxidants inhibit damage by free radicals by converting them into harmless molecules. However, when antioxidants are lacking, free radicals attack other molecules to stabilise themselves, which in turn causes the molecules that are attacked to become unstable and subsequently attack more molecules. This chain reaction is called oxidative stress. Therefore it is important to both minimise exposure to external factors that cause free radical production and also to increase our antioxidant status.
The Good News......
The Antioxidant ‘super' foods in Antiox Reds
SUPER FRUITS & BERRIES:
Goji berries, Pomegranate, Blueberries, Raspberries, Strawberries, Cranberries, Blackcurrant & Black Grape
NUTRIENT RICH VEGETABLES:
Carrots, Beetroot & Tomato
PLUS CONCENTRATED NUTRIENTS:
Grapeseed extract, Lycopene & Rosehips
ANTIOXIDANT VITAMINS & MINERALS:
Calcium Ascorbate (Vitamin C), Mixed Tocopherols (Vitamin E), Selenium & Zinc
The bottom line......
Eating an abundance of different brightly coloured fresh fruit and vegetables instead of highly processed nutrient poor foods could be the most important decision you make towards long-term wellness. When you are unsure if you have eaten enough antioxidant foods to fulfil your daily requirements, it may be beneficial to take a functional food supplement containing the above nutrients to ensure that you are getting the antioxidant protection you need.
