Comment on Safety and Antioxidant Activity of a Pomegranate Ellagitannin-Enriched Polyphenol Dietary Supplement in Overweight Individuals with Increased Waist Size

Abstract

For researchers, it is a most interesting and rewarding experience to confirm the effects and discover the mechanisms of the health-enhancing power of traditionally valued foods. No doubt pomegranate fruit is such an asset. In the paper by Heber and collaborators (1), recently published in this journal, antioxidant properties, corresponding to a decrease of plasma thiobarbituric acid reactive substances after 4 weeks of daily ingestion of 1000 mg of a pomegranate ellagitannin-enriched polyphenol extract have been described. These results confirm previousreports of the antioxidant potential of pomegranate (2-4) not only in Vitro but also in ViVo, in mice and in humans (5). (...)