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Anticancer and cancer chemopreventive potential of grape seed extract and other grape-based products
The Journal of Nutrition, 08/11/09

Kaur M et al. – In a review of the anticancer and cancer chemopreventive potential of grape seed extract and other grape-based products, this review focuses on recent advancements in cancer chemopreventive and anticancer efficacy of grape seed extract and other grape-based products. Completed studies from various scientific groups conclude that both grapes and grape-based products are excellent sources of various anticancer agents and their regular consumption should be beneficial to the general population.

Methods

Intervention or prevention of cancer by dietary constituents, a strategy defined as chemoprevention, holds great promise in the quest to control cancer, because it can be implemented on a broader population base with less economic burden.
Several epidemiological studies have shown that populations that consume diets rich in fruits and vegetables have an overall lower cancer incidence.

Results

Research efforts have focused on identifying, characterizing, and providing scientific basis to the efficacy of various phytonutrients in an effort to develop effective strategy to control various human malignancies.
Cancer induction, growth, and progression are multi-step events and numerous studies have demonstrated that various dietary agents interfere with these stages of cancer, thus blocking malignancy.
Fruits and vegetables represent untapped reservoir of various nutritive and nonnutritive phytochemicals with potential cancer chemopreventive activity.
Grapes and grape-based products are 1 such class of dietary products that have shown cancer chemopreventive potential and are also known to improve overall human health.

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