The new study recommends that black raspberries can prevent bowel cancer. It was found by researchers in a lab study that a freeze-dried edition of black raspberry could reduce the number of tumours in a sprain of mice which were prone to disease by sixty percent.
The earlier studies have shown that black raspberries have antioxidant and anti cancer properties. The fruit repressed the growth of tumour by suppressing a protein known as beta-catenin. The frequency and number of tumours were decreased by fifty percent in another sprain of mice susceptible to colitis.
Colitis is an inflammation of the large intestine that can contribute to bowel cancer. The both strains of mice were either fed a Western-style, high fat diet or the identical diet supplemented with ten percent freeze-dried black raspberry powder for twelve weeks.
We saw the black raspberry as a natural product, very powerful and easy to access explained study leader Dr Wancai Yang from the University of Illinois in Chicago. The results were published today in the journal Cancer Prevention and Research.
Researchers saw a wide range of defensive effects in the bowels of the mice given the supplement. Black raspberries are native to the US and are a popular fruit among home gardeners, although they are less common in the UK.