{"id":1602,"date":"2023-02-17T17:39:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T22:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/?post_type=fdoc-nutrition-page&#038;p=1602"},"modified":"2023-02-17T17:39:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T22:39:53","slug":"heart-health","status":"publish","type":"fdoc-nutrition-page","link":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/health-nutrition\/heart-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fresh Florida Grapefruit and Florida Grapefruit Juice have many qualities that make them great to include as part of a heart-healthy diet:<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>no sugar added<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>cholesterol free<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>saturated fat free<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sodium free<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>contains a number of vitamins, minerals, and&nbsp;phytonutrients, like carotenoids and polyphenols, that can help support heart health<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>contributes&nbsp;fibre&nbsp;to the diet (fresh grapefruit)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Fresh grapefruit, grapefruit juice and grapefruit-pommelo hybrid fruit and juices have been shown in clinical studies to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>reduce blood pressure<sup>2-5<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>reduce total cholesterol<sup>6,7<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>reduce \u201cbad\u201d cholesterol (LDL)<sup>4,6-7<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>increase \u201cgood\u201d cholesterol (HDL)<sup>9<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>reduce or not affect triglyceride levels<sup>2,6,7,9,10<\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>reduce aortic arterial stiffness<sup>11<\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, observational studies have associated grapefruit consumption with lower triglycerides and higher HDL cholesterol<sup>12<\/sup>&nbsp;and reduced risk for coronary heart disease mortality&nbsp;in women<sup>13<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-background wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#000000;background-color:#fee500;font-style:italic;font-weight:100\">White and pink\/red grapefruit have similar nutrition profiles; however, pink\/red grapefruit contain more carotenoids, like lycopene, that give them their colour.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-fdoc-references\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-fdoc-references__heading\">References<\/h2><ol class=\"wp-block-fdoc-references__list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33158037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Heart Association.\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/healthy-living\/healthy-eating\/heart-check-foods\">https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\/healthy-living\/healthy-eating\/heart-check-foods<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/16202862\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reshef et al. Am J Hypertens. 2005;18:1360-1363.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/19153985\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Diaz-Juarez et al. Phytother Res. 2009;23(7):948-954.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/22304836\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dow et al. Metabolism. 2012;61(7):1026-1035.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25880021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Onakpoya et al. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2017;57(3):602-612.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/15291499\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gorinstein et al. J Agric Food Chem. 2004;52:5215-5222.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/16506849\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gorinstein et al. J Agric Food Chem. 2006; 54:1887-1892<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/foodandnutritionresearch.net\/index.php\/fnr\/article\/view\/406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jonsson et al. Scand J Food Nutr. 2006;50(3):118-123.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/21288350\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Silver et al. Nutr Metab. 2011;8(1):8.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/16579728\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fujioka et al. J Med Food. 2006;9(1):49-54.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26016866\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Habauzit et al. Am J Clin Nutr. 2015;102(1):66-74.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25006335\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Murphy et al. 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Am J Clin Nutr. 2007;85(3):895-909.<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh Florida Grapefruit and Florida Grapefruit Juice have many qualities that make them great to include as part of a heart-healthy diet:1 Fresh grapefruit, grapefruit juice and grapefruit-pommelo hybrid fruit and juices have been shown in clinical studies to: In addition, observational studies have associated grapefruit consumption with lower triglycerides and higher HDL cholesterol12&nbsp;and reduced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"fdoc-nutrition-category":[],"class_list":["post-1602","fdoc-nutrition-page","type-fdoc-nutrition-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-nutrition-page\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-nutrition-page"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/fdoc-nutrition-page"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-nutrition-page\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-nutrition-page\/1602\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fdoc-nutrition-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fdoc-nutrition-category?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}