{"id":440,"date":"2018-06-05T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.org\/grapefruit\/?post_type=fdoc-nutrition-page&p=440"},"modified":"2022-04-26T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:15:34","slug":"phytonutrients","status":"publish","type":"fdoc-nutrition-page","link":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/health-nutrition\/grapefruit-health-nutrition\/phytonutrients\/","title":{"rendered":"Phytonutrients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Phytonutrients are plant compounds which are thought to have health-promoting qualities. Scientists are discovering that these plant-derived components are intimately involved in fighting cellular damage, a common initiation step in the pathways for cancer, ageing, and a variety of diseases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grapefruit and 100% grapefruit juice have an array of phytonutrients including carotenoids and flavonoids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The amount of carotenoids in food can vary widely depending on citrus variety, growing conditions, fruit maturity, processing, storage, and multiple other factors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Only pink grapefruit and pink grapefruit juices contribute to vitamin A intake. The amount of vitamin A delivered by carotenoids in half a pink grapefruit and 250 ml of 100% pink grapefruit juice is approximately 2-4% of the recommended Daily Value.*<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n Phytonutrients are plant compounds which are thought to have health-promoting qualities. Scientists are discovering that these plant-derived components are intimately involved in fighting cellular damage, a common initiation step in the pathways for cancer, ageing, and a variety of diseases. Grapefruit and 100% grapefruit juice have an array of phytonutrients including carotenoids and flavonoids. Carotenoids […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"fdoc_resource_category_id":"","fdoc_news_category_id":"","fdoc_growers_feed_title":""},"nutrition-categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nutrition-pages\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nutrition-pages"}],"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\/nutrition-pages\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nutrition-pages\/440\/revisions\/1287"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nutrition-pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"fdoc-nutrition-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floridacitrus.ca\/grapefruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nutrition-categories?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Flavonoids<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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