Are all fruits good for you or should you limit certain ones? Natural fruit sugar comes with fiber, antioxidants and nutrients that support overall health. Watermelon and oranges are packed with ...

Avocados are beneficial to digestive health because of their high fiber content, including prebiotics. They also contain ...

Even white and brown foods such as garlic, onions, mushrooms, and bananas contain helpful compounds like allicin and inulin ...

Bacteria are adept at developing resistance to antibiotics. Among the deadliest of resistant bacteria is MRSA, which killed 19,000 Americans in 2005 alone. 14. MRSA’s deadliness comes in part from a ...

Rabourn, W. J., and Quackenbush, F. W., paper presented before the Division of Biological Chemistry, 132nd Meeting Amer. Chem. Soc., 1957. Quackenbush, F. W., and ...

Abstract: Time-resolved measurement of photosensitized luminescence of singlet oxygen (SO) has been applied to studies of SO generation and quenching by C40 carotenoids (phytofluene, zeta-carotene, ...

The study by the University of Nottingham found that vitamin A-related metabolites, especially carotenoids, are linked to a diverse and healthy gut microbiome Carotenoid compounds were positively ...

They deserve the lime-light. Researchers credit phytonutrients — compounds found on plant surfaces that protect against bacteria, viruses and fungi — for giving plant-based foods their health-boosting ...

A significant negative correlation was observed between serum carotenoids and bacterial vaginosis among women. There is an inverse correlation between serum carotenoids and the prevalence of bacterial ...