Claim · model-written summary
Several Australian native fruits had antioxidant contents far in excess of blueberries.
- Taxon
- Davidsons plum, Burdekin plum, Illawarra plum, finger limes, Tasmanian pepper, muntries, Molucca raspberry, riberry, bush cherry and Cedar Bay cherrye1
- Outcome
- antioxidant contentse1
- Comparator
- blueberriese1
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Verbatim
e1“Davidsons plum, Burdekin plum, Illawarra plum, finger limes, Tasmanian pepper, muntries, Molucca raspberry, riberry, bush cherry and Cedar Bay cherry all had antioxidant contents far in excess of blueberries”
Title
Kakadu Plum – An Emerging Super-food
Ian Edwin Cock Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia) 2012
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- Observation Terminalia ferdinandiana had the highest antioxidant content of all fruits compared.
- Observation Terminalia ferdinandiana had vitamin C contents approximately 900 times higher than blueberries.
- Observation Vitamin C contents of Kakadu plum were estimated at as high as 6% of wet weight.
- Observation Kakadu plum fruit contain flavonoids and phenolics.
- Observation Kakadu plum fruit are a good source of gallic and ellagic acids.
- Observation Kakadu plum is a good source of minerals, including magnesium, zinc, calcium, potassium, sodium, iron, phosphorous, manganese, copper and molybdenum.