Fruits, Roots and Shoots

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Fruits, Roots and Shoots is a powerful plant factor supplement
Dose: Up to 4 capsules daily if fighting an infection or 1 capsule daily for promotion of health.

The reason the government urge us all to eat ‘5 a day’ portions of fruits and vegetables is in order to ensure that we ingest enough phytonutrients from plants which are known to be absolutely vital for our health and well-being. Fruits, Roots and Shoots is a brilliant phytonutrient formula containing high potency plant extracts with exceptional protective properties. As the name suggests, these nutrients are extracted from edible fruits, roots and shoots.

The vital plant antioxidants are called flavonoids and carotenoids and each capsule has an ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) score of 5,000 units, equivalent to over 15 portions of fruit and vegetables per day! (Our '5 a day' yield 1,500 ORAC units.)  The phyto-nutrients are collectively and individually known for their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antiviral activity and we cannot take in too much of these protective factors. Indeed many nutritionists feel that the government should be urging us to eat a minimum of ten portions of fruit and vegetables in a day as we used to do only a century ago and as people do regularly in less affluent cultures.

Flavonoids serve as protective nutrients in plant tissue to protect the plant and in particular the plants DNA against external threat from mutagens which damage our DNA. Once consumed by humans they act in the same way. Flavonoids come in a variety of different colored pigments and each has a different protective action. Fruits, Roots and Shoots contains flavonoids from the full colour spectrum and is based on the most potent of each group.  Carotenoids in plants and in humans help to retain intracellular communication, protect against damage from UV light and particularly help retain integrity and health in the following body tissue: prostate and cervix, cardiovascular and respiratory, the skin, breast and ovaries.   Most people ingest on average 140mg flavonoids per day against a recommended level of 800mg for optimum health; likewise with carotenoids, the average intake is 5mg daily, against recommendations of 20mg.  Fruits, Roots and Shoots supplies 650mg mixed flavonoids and 15mg mixed carotenoids to bridge this gap. Despite the constant reminders the national average intake is still less than 2 portions per day and this great little supplement can quickly make up the deficit.

Flavonoids and carotenoids are contained in all fruit and vegetables. The levels are much higher in organic produce as their production is stimulated to protect the plant against pests and other external threats in the absence of chemical herbicides, fungicides and pesticides. If a plant is protected by these chemicals, it has less need to produce its own protective flavonoids, carotenoids and salvestrols, and hence the levels are significantly lower in non-organically-farmed produce.  This effect of agro-chemical farming coupled with the reduction in intake of fruits and vegetables, are the main reasons for many of us being short of these protective nutrients in our diets.  Fruits, Roots and Shoots serves as a very valuable extra source of vital plant protection and at times of infection the dose can be raised to four per day, to serve as a powerful natural anti-biotic.

The daily dose of 1 capsule of Fruits, Roots and Shoots provides:
Quercetin       75.0mg
Broccoli Powder (containing 0.5% sulphorophane) 60.0mg
Green Tea Extract (95% polyphenols)    50.0mg
Grape Seed Extract      50.0mg
Ginger extract (5% gingerols)    50.0mg
Blueberry 4:1       40.0mg
Bilberry Extract (25% anthocyanocides)   40.0mg
Curcumin Extract (95% curcuminoids)   40.0mg
Beta Carotene (from carrot concentrate)   2.0mg
Lycopene       5.0mg
Lutein        5.0mg
Providing zeaxanthin     200.0µg

Fruits Roots and Shoots is Code 6715

Capules: Code 6715

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