Flavanoids from berry and vegetable juices, vitamin C, tocopherol and carotinoids have anti-oxidant effect, activate redox processes, increase body’s resistance against harmful external pressure and infections; they also decrease blood cholesterol content. Flavonoids of shrubby cinquefoil are effective against dysbacteriosis and normalize metabolism.
Rutin strengthens blood vessel walls and reduces vascular permeability.
Polysaccharides activate body’s protective reactions.
Anthocyanins suppress tumor growth.
Betaine in combination with pectins has a pronounced protective and stimulating action on blood production (leukopoiesis, erythropoiesis), including after radiation and chemical therapy.
Vegetable fibers are nutritional fibers contained in plant-based materials. Vegetable fibers are a prebiotic, nutrition for beneficial intestinal bacteria. Regular consumption of vegetable fibers reconstitutes microbiota (intestinal microflora). Healthy microbiota means strong immunity, protection against pathogenic microorganisms and chronic inflammations, it means persistence of an organism under stress and increased loads, both physical and mental ones.
Vegetable fibers:
- facilitate significant drop in the level of “bad” cholesterol (low-density lipoproteins) in blood;
- slow sugar absorption from food and regulates blood glucose level;
- purify one’s organism of toxins and undigested food remnants;
- improve intestinal motility and prevents constipation;
- strengthen the feeling of satiation, staving off hunger.
- help fighting excess weight;
- are among factors that prevent cancer formation;
- prolong organism’s youth.