Camu camu extract prevents obesity in mice fed high-fat diet

Found in the Amazon rainforest in Peru and Brazil, camu camu fruit has gained popularity around the world in recent years as the latest "superfood." Boasting an extraordinarily high vitamin C content of as much as 2 to 3 percent its weight, the fruit is rich in flavonoids and antioxidants and has long been used by Amazonian natives for food and medicine. Now a new study has found that an extract of camu camu can prevent mice fed a high-fat and high-sugar diet becoming obese.

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Category: Health & Wellbeing

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• Fruit
• Gut Bacteria
• Microbiome
• Obesity
• Universite Laval
• Weight

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