Mangosteen - Top Antioxidant-Rich Fruit

One of the most antioxidant-rich fruits on earth is Mangosteen. It is better than blueberries, and more powerful than pomegranate, Mangosteen has emerged as nature’s premier antioxidant defender against free radicals. Throughout most of southeast Asia, Mangosteen is known as the "Queen of Fruits" thanks to its excellent taste and health benefits.
The secret to its powers appears to lie in its remarkable profile of antioxidant phytonutrients, including, polyphenols and xanthones like gamma-mangostin and alpha-mangostin. I know, from personal experience, of a friend who is using Mangosteen in tandem with chemotherapy for her bout with colon cancer. She looks like the picture of health and is still on the job full time. There are seminars on Mangosteen and its superior results in fighting off free-radicals.
Scores of Popular Antioxidants:
Raspberries - 1220
Blueberries - 2400
Pomegranates - 3,037
Wolfberry juice - 3,472
Mangosteen - 17,000
Vitamin Health Stores provide a "Triple Standardized" capsule form of Mangosteen. I would like to see the natural fruit available because of its excellent taste and health benefits. Things are changing in the health arena of available approaches to healthy eating and I have already seen pomegranate juice and fruit available locally.
Unfortunately, the "Nutrition Facts" on the label of the pomegranate juice indicate a very high sugar and carbohydrate content - which is against my rule of thumb. I have contacted a number of sources for a healthy form of "Dark Chocolate" without all the sugar and milk - with little success. If you come across some, please let me know? I remain skeptical about supplements taking the place of cinnamon, oregano, garlic, cherries and those natural food forms already included in my "nutrition-based-regimen." I like my tea in a cup and not in a pill. Oranges, apples, steamed broccoli and cauliflower taste a lot better than the pills and add color and taste to my daily intake of natural food.
Herbs, minerals and vitamins are not taken in pill form on the "Island of Longevity" - Okinawa, Japan. Their claim to fame is the result. The percentage of people in Okinawa who live to be at least 100 years old is four times the national average of Japan, which is pretty impressive, considering that the Japanese have the longest average lifespan of any people on earth.
Okinawans tend to enjoy a high quality of life, relatively free of the disabilities we tend to associate with advanced age. Okinawans have one fifth the rate of heart disease, one fourth the rate of prostate and breast cancer, and a third less dementia than Americans, according to an article in the November, 2005 issue of National Geographic.