Why Wild?
The Advantages of Wild Foods
The phytochemicals found in the skin of fruits and vegetables provide these plants with antioxidant protection against the stress caused by intense sunlight and rigorous growing conditions. The harsher the environment, the more potent the protection. When you eat these foods, you get the same antioxidant protection for yourself.
Born to be Wild (and Healthy)
Wild Blueberries have thrived under harsh growing conditions for over 10,000 years. One of North America’s native berries, the wild ones are never cultivated or planted. Yet they survive in the glacial soils and northern climate of Maine and Canada thanks to their high concentration of the flavonoid anthocyanin, a phytochemical found in blue pigmented fruit. In fact, Wild Blueberries have a higher anthocyanin content than ordinary cultivated blueberries. So when you eat Wild Blueberries, you gain the extra antioxidant protection of a hardy, wild fruit—Nature’s Antioxidant SuperFruit.
Mary Ann Lila, PhD, Director, Plants for Human Health Institute at North Carolina State University, explained “why wild plants can protect you from cancer,” on a recent edition of the Dr. Oz Show. Read what Dr. Lila, a member of the Bar Harbor Group of research scientists, says about Wild Blueberries and cancer protection here.
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