The acai berry may fight leukemia
Jan 24
A study conducted at the University of Florida was published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry on January 17th. After introducing the antioxidant rich acai berry to cancer cells in a culture, the majority of cancer cells were actually destroyed!
Stephen Talcott, assistant professor at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences said the acai berry extract triggered apoptosis, or destruction, of 86% of the leukemia cells. Talcott also mentioned that the results are cell-culture based and that there is no proof that the acai berry would prevent or fight leukemia. This also isn’t the first fruit that has shown the ability to destroy cancer cells in culture form.
