To prevent cancer eat more and more Sapota fruit. Sapota fruit, a popular ingredient for desserts, could well be the answer to stop cancer from spreading, according to a study by Indian scientists.
Researchers have able to prove methanolic (alcoholic) extracts of the whole fruit possess certain active photochemical (plant-derived compounds) that can trigger a sequence of orchestrated events in tumour cells leading to their death (a process called apoptosis).
“ This was a preliminary study which had used two of the phytochemicals isolated from Sapota fruit on cancer cell lines. Ours is the first study using whole fruit methanolic extracts which explores anti-cancer properties of the same on different cancer cell lines and on animal models.
According to professor Sathees C. Raghavan ( At the department of Biochemistry) “Our results indicate that inclusion of Sapota fruit in our daily diet may protect from genesis and progression of cancer,”
The collaborative study was conducted by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore, and the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore.
This report was published in August in Nature Publishing Group’s journal Scientific Reports.
As the disturbing figures rise on one hand, there is also, on the other end, mounting evidences of plant derived dietary substances as “suitable candidates for treating various types of cancers due to their broad chemical diversity”.
Professor Raghavan explained: “We have tested its effect on cancer cells derived from different cancers such as leukemia, breast, ovarian and lung carcinomas. We found that it induces apoptosis in all types of cancers with varying efficiencies. (Source: Wikipedia)
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