Extracts vs. Foods: Grapefruit Juice and Weight

Today we continue to look at the health benefits of food extracts versus eating the actual foods. Today’s extract could be considered both: grapefruit juice. I’m putting this one in the extracts category because of the way the researchers prepared the grapefruit juice. Here’s the story.

To say that this was a complicated study is an understatement. I’ll give you the essence of it and the results. Researchers centrifuged fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice to remove all particulates; then they concocted several different mixtures, adding varying amounts of saccharin, sugar, metformin, and a phytonutrient from grapefruit called . . .

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