Category Archives: Grapes

Grape Extract for Anxiety?

Posted on August 17, 2021 by Robert Barrington

Grapes are known to be a healthy food that provide significant health benefits when regularly consumed. Grapes, particularly their skins and their seeds are rich in antioxidants, including a group of flavonoids called anthocyanins (in the skins) and proanthocyanidins (in … Continue reading →

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Grape Seed Extract and Cognition

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Robert Barrington

Grapes are high in antioxidants and are known to have a number of health benefits in humans and animals. However, the antioxidants differ between different parts of the grapes and this may give them different properties. For example, scientists have … Continue reading →

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Grape Seed Extract: Improvements in Anxiety and Sleep

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Robert Barrington

Vitis vinifera is the Latin name for the common grape vine. Vitis vinifera is cultivated throughout the World for wine, fruit and juice production. Vitis vinifera grows to around 30 meters in length, and is characterised by a flakey bark, … Continue reading →

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Vitis vinifera: Grapes and Raisins to Treat Anxiety?

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Robert Barrington

Grape extracts have been shown to contain high concentrations of dietary phytochemicals, particularly polyphenols. As polyphenols have been shown to possess possible anxiolytic effects in humans and animals, this may suggest that extracts of grape plants may confer mood elevating … Continue reading →

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Grape Juice: An Alternative to Red Wine?

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Robert Barrington

Evidence suggests that consumption of red wine reduces the risk of a number of diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease. This may relate in part to the presence of the alcohol within red wine, consumption of which has been shown to reduce … Continue reading →

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Concord Grape Juice and Memory

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Evidence suggests that fruits and vegetables have beneficial health effects. The exact reason for this is not known, but studies suggest that the polyphenols contained within fruits and vegetables may have a number of beneficial health effects. One line of … Continue reading →

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Pycnogenol: Antioxidant Bark

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Antioxidants are protective of disease because they inhibit free radical chain reactions, and this reduces oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is associated with many Western lifestyle diseases including cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, arthritis and obesity. Oxidative stress may initiate … Continue reading →

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Fruit Versus Fruit Juice: Blood Sugar Effects

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Robert Barrington

The absorption of glucose causes a release of insulin from the pancreas. This insulin is required to allow the uptake of glucose to cells and therefore has a blood sugar lowering effect. The rise in blood sugar seen following ingestion … Continue reading →

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Red Wine Alternatives

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Robert Barrington
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Grapes and Blood Pressure

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Robert Barrington

t is becoming increasingly evident that antioxidants are able to favourably modulate high blood pressure. In particular, plant antioxidants such as the polyphenol class of compounds are able to cause blood pressure changes by increasing flow mediated dilation. For example, … Continue reading →

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