An apple a day also helps brain...may also protect against damage leading to Alz & PD
 

An apple a day also helps brain
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Written by: SHARON LEM
Dec. 3, 2004

TORONTO -- There may be another good reason to start eating an apple a day.

According to researchers, an apple a day may not only help reduce the risk of cancer but may also protect against brain-cell damage that can lead to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

Read full article.

This news is a bit late for all of us. :Sigh:

That , and...
 

good for your teeth and gums, good source of roughage, and you get your sweets without using white sugar. AND, they just taste good!!:)

I wonder if cooking the apple reduces the amount of quercetin. I eat apples raw and microwaved (with some grape nuts trail mix cereal).

Onions Pack Quercetin Power.

Quercetin, a formidable antioxidant with wide-ranging activity, is concentrated in onions. Studies show that quercetin is anti-cancer, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-viral and anti-bacterial. It also helps block the formation of blood clots and processes that lead to artery-clogging. A recent Dutch study found that those who ate half an onion a day cut their risk of stomach cancer in half. In another Dutch study, those eating the most "bioflavonoids," mainly quercetin, were least likely to suffer fatal heart attacks.

For the most quercetin, eat red and yellow onions; white onions have very little. Coming soon: super-potent onions. At the University of Wisconsin and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, researchers are developing onions extra-high in quercetin and other disease-fighting phytochemicals.

Red wine, broccoli and tea are also rich in quercetin.

Interesting article:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...faa1f6ef1f72c8

zucciniflower...i found this about cooked apples:

Even though quercetin is relatively stable during cooking, fresh apples are better sources of quercetin than cooked or processed apple products because the compound is mainly concentrated in the skin of apples rather than the flesh, Lee says. Products such as apple juice and apple sauce do not contain significant amounts of skin. In general, red apples tend to have more of the antioxidant than green or yellow ones, although any apple variety is a good source of quercetin, he adds.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...s-ia111604.php

hope this helps. :) doesn't say how much it's reduced.