Grape seed extract: nature's wonder
Added 20.08.2008
It is only now, through extensive research, that we are truly discovering and understanding the many beneficial properties that grapes and their substances have on our health.
Grape seeds contain more than 300 different natural substances. Some of the best known are oligomeric proanthocyanidins (OPCs). OPCs are natural compounds that have many health promoting properties.
Resveratrol, found in grape seed extract and other fruits and plants, is one of the most important OPCs as it has a wide variety of effects including: reducing the influence of asthma provocative factors; normalising immune response to allergens in hay fever; preventing the oxidation of LDL cholesterol (unhealthy cholesterol); reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease; has vasodilating effects (widening of the arteries); has highly potent cancer preventative agents; and has several different anti-inflammatory properties.
