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As in oranges, Tangerines are very low (53
calories/100 g) in
calories. Nevertheless, they are valuable sources of flavonoid
anti-oxidants like
naringenin,
naringin, hesperetin,
vitamin A, carotenes, xanthins and luteins; in fact,
several times higher
than in the oranges.
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In addition, the citrus fruits are very rich
sources of vitamin-C
(ascorbic acid), a water-soluble vitamin. Vitamin-C is one of the
powerful natural anti-oxidant, which has many essential roles like
collagen synthesis, wound healing, anti-viral, anti-cancer activity,
and help prevent from neuro-degenerative diseases, arthritis, and
cold/fever...etc., by removing oxidant-free radicals from the body.
Vitamin C helps absorb iron in the food by reducing ferrous form of the
iron elements to ferric form in the gut.In fact tangerine has more anti-oxidant than orange
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
TANGERINE
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