Are the ingredients extracted from fruits and vegetables superior to fruits and vegetables in cancer prevention?

Li, Yuhua; Li, Chen; Sun, Yang; Niu, Yinbo; Liu, Li; Mei, Qibing

doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2010.01.037

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Volume 75, Issue 1 , Pages 77-78, July 2010

Are the ingredients extracted from fruits and vegetables superior to fruits and vegetables in cancer prevention?

Yuhua Li
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, PR China
- Co-first author.
Chen Li
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, PR China
- Co-first author.
Yang Sun
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, PR China
Yinbo Niu
- Faculty of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, PR China
Li Liu
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, PR China
Qibing Mei
- Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, PR China
- Faculty of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, PR China
- Corresponding author. Address: Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, PR China. Tel./fax: +86 29 84779212.

Received 7 January 2010; accepted 28 January 2010. published online 02 March 2010.

Summary

A diet high in fruits and vegetables decreases the risk of various cancers. And recently, several ingredients extracted from fruits and vegetables are observed to have a protective effect against different cancers as well. Many of them have been allowed to enter clinical trial. Due to the fact that these ingredients possess not only a comparatively high purity and quantity, but also a potential economic value, it seems that they are superior to and could replace fresh vegetables and fruits in cancer prevention in the future. Herein, we proposed the hypothesis: the ingredients cannot take the place of fresh fruits and vegetables in cancer prevention.