« Back to previous pageCherryActive Concentrate - The Super-Antioxidant Drink!
Are you looking for a convenient and 100% natural drink to boost your daily intake of health promoting antioxidants?
CherryActive Concentrate is the perfect, natural source of high quality antioxidants in one convenient and delicious serving!
Just 30ml of CherryActive Concentrate has the antioxidant capacity of over 20 typical portions of fruit and veg!
“Research confirms CherryActive Concentrate as the premier Antioxidant drink!”
CherryActive Concentrate dilutes to make the most powerful antioxidant drink on the market, following two separate analyses, which both reveal its extraordinarily high antioxidant content. Tested at the two leading Antioxidant labs in the UK and USA, CherryActive Concentrate’s astonishing antioxidant test results have placed it ahead of other leading antioxidant drinks such as Goji juice, Noni juice and Acai juice, to name a few, by significant margins.
Simply dilute CherryActive Concentrate with fresh water to make a delicious, health- promoting cherry juice! Suggested mix is 30ml with 250ml water.
Dr Robert Verker BSc MSc DIC PhD, ANH Consultancy Ltd, a leading UK scientific specialist said;
“To put CherryActive’s antioxidant results into perspective, a single 30ml serving gives you about the same free radical quenching ability as over 20 typical portions of fruit and vegetable. The results also show the antioxidant effects work well across 5 different free radical systems, something that can’t be said about simpler antioxidants like single vitamins”
Antioxidant testing performed at Knight Scientific Laboratories, UK
Comparison of Antioxidant Capacity of CherryActive Concentrate (30ml) Against Single Servings of Other Drinks
Antioxidant testing performed at Brunswick Laboratories, USA, ORAC Test Results
1 litre of CherryActive Concentrate = 275,343 ORAC units, therefore a 30ml serving has 8,260 ORAC units (your average 5-a-day has 1750 ORAC units!) Click here to view our CherryActive ORAC Certificate
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What are Antioxidants?
Antioxidants are substances, compounds, or nutrients in our foods which can prevent or slow oxidative damage to our bodies. When our cells use oxygen, they naturally produce “free radicals”, which are chemicals that form naturally inside the body through the process of oxidation. Everyday functions such as breathing, digestion and physical activity produce free radicals. Daily exposure to polluted air, fried or over-cooked food and oxidizing radiation, from the sun and electrical appliances, contribute additional free radicals in the body.
These free radicals travel throughout our bodies, causing damage to our cells, organs and the body’s delicate chemical balance. Extensive damage by free radicals is thought to be a factor in the signs and diseases associated with ageing - including ageing skin, cancers, heart disease, stroke, brain deterioration, arthritis and other conditions.
Antioxidants quench, or neutralise, these free radicals, thus preventing, or slowing down, the damage they can cause. Therefore, scientists recommend us to maintain a high antioxidant defence to slow down the ageing process and to maintain good health.
Patrick Holford, founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition and author of the Optimum Nutrition Bible comments.
“A recent Horizon documentary, ‘How to live to 101’, showed that the longest living people in the world all achieve a very high intake of antioxidants, measured as over 6000 ORAC units a day. CherryActive Concentrate is extraordinarily high at 8,260 ORACs per 30ml serving. It’s so high I had to check the independent analysis. I am making a serving a day part of my anti- ageing strategy.”
What Antioxidants are in Montmorency Cherries?
Montmorency cherries contain a complex variety of powerful antioxidants, including:
Anthocyanins – these powerful antioxidant compounds, which give the fruit its bright red hue, are known to have powerful anti-inflammatory qualities as well as help protect the cardiovascular system against a build up of plaque.
Melatonin – this is one of the most potent antioxidants discovered. Melatonin is a powerful anti-cancer agent, has anti-inflammatory properties and also controls daily circadian rhythms, helping to maintain healthy sleep patterns. Montmorency cherries contain significantly high levels of Melatonin.
Super Oxide Dismutase (SOD) - a powerful enzyme and cellular antioxidant, SOD acts as a super scavenger of superoxide anions by ferreting out and destroying them throughout the body. The human body is often lacking SOD, thus the burden of defence often relies on intake of exogenous dietary antioxidants. Very few natural foods contain SOD.
Proanthocyanins - these are a group of flavonoids, also called condensed tannins (also found in red wine), and are known powerful free radical scavengers. There is a substantial quantity of proanthocyanins in Montmorency cherries.
Flavonoids - Six major flavonoids in Montmorency cherries were identified by the Brunswick Laboratories. They are chlorogenic acid, neochlorogenic acid, coumaroylquinic acid, rutin-glucoside, rutin and isorhamnetin-3-rutinoside. All these flavonoid compounds are powerful antioxidants.
ORAC Values
Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity, or ORAC, measures the total antioxidant capacity of foods. ORAC measures how many oxygen radicals a specific food can absorb and deactivate (Ou 2001). The higher the ORAC score, the better a food may be in helping our bodies defend theselves against free radical damage and the diseases associated with ageing. The recommended “5-a-day” fruit and vegetable servings give an ORAC score of around 1,750 units. CherryActive Concentrate has an amazing ORAC score of 8,260 per 30ml.
| Typical 5-a-Day Food Portions | ORAC Units* | “Studies have shown antioxidant supplements derived from non-food sources do not replicate the action of antioxidants from food sources” Follow link to CherryActive ORAC Certificate CherryActive ORAC score equals 275,343 ORAC units per Litre = 8,260 per 30ml serving. |
| Medium Banana (80g**) | 650 | |
| Watermelon (80g) | 113 | |
| Fresh Tomatoes (80g) | 294 | |
| Garden Peas (80g) | 480 | |
| Cooked Carrots (80g) | 253 | |
| Total for selected 5-a-Day | 1790 | |
| CherryActive Concentrate (30ml) | 8260 | |
| (makes one 280ml glass of cherry juice) | ||
| *Source: Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity of Selected Foods – 2007, US Department of Agriculture. **80g is the standard portion measure for Government's 5-a-Day programme. |
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How Do We Do It?
Our Cherries
CherryActive use finest Montmorency cherries in its products, a variety noted for containing up to 5 times the antioxidant levels of other more common cherry varieties, like Morrello cherries.
Our Methods
CherryActive's unique methods of growing and processing its fruit ensures antioxidant-rich products, whilst looking after the environment in which they are produced.
From the planting and growing phase, through to pressing, bottling and storing, we take meticulous care to ensure we surpass our standards of excellence.
Our specialist farmers grow our Montmorency cherries in the finest, nutrient-rich soil, which packs our cherries full of antioxidant goodness. They specially care for our crop in an ecologically sound and responsible way to produce a safe and abundant harvest, whilst protecting and preserving the natural environment.
Once our cherries are ripe, they are harvested, with only firm, bright red cherries (indicating the highest levels of powerful antioxidants) being selected to be used in CherryActive products. We do not use harsh heat treatments or preservatives, which optimises the end products' high antioxidant properties.
Quality Assurance
CherryActive believe in only supplying our customers with premium quality products and service. We have worked hard to provide a product range high in health-promoting antioxidants. Our CherryActive Concentrate is complemented with our award-winning CherryActive Capsules (Best Supplement - Natural Trade Show 2007)
We will not compromise on our quality standards through the use of damaging artificial colours, preservatives, additives or sweeteners, and are committed to delivering you high quality, natural products.