SUMMARY: "An apple peel a day, might help keep cancer at bay"

A study of Cornell Institute suggets that "An apple peel a day, might help keep cancer at bay", a similar proposal to the proverb "An apple a day keeps the doctor away".
The researcher Rui Hai Liu, the senior author of the study, found that the apple peel has several compounds that have anti-proliferative activities, that is to say, anticancer activities in human liver colon and breast cancer cells.
The compounds are about a dozen kinds of "triterpenoids" that previously were tested in laboratory cultures. Three of them have never been described before in the literature.
Liu also said that some compounds act in differents ways against the cancer cells, but all of them have very potent anti-cancer activity and for that reason they must be study further.
Liu and the researcher Xiangjiu He analized the individual compounds in apples of the Cornell Orchard and they also found others compounds called "phytochemicals" (a kind of flavonoids and phenolic acids, known for their antioxidant activity) that seem to have anti-cancer activities too.
The recommendation of Cornell Institute's researchers is to eat 5 to 12 daily servings of a variety of vegetables and fruits, specially apples and their peel to reduce the risks of developing cancer and other chronical diseases.
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