{"id":9815,"date":"2024-01-16T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2024-01-16T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:05:31","slug":"flavonoid-benefits-from-apple-peels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=9815","title":{"rendered":"Flavonoid Benefits from Apple Peels\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Peeled apples are pitted head-to-head against unpeeled apples (and spinach) in a test of artery function.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regularly eating apples may <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26787402\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contribute<\/a> to a lower risk of dying prematurely. \u201cModerate apple consumption,\u201d meaning one or two apples a week, \u201cwas associated with a 20% lower risk of all-cause mortality\u201d\u2014that is, dying from all causes put together\u2014\u201cwhereas those who ate an apple a day had a 35% lower risk of all-cause mortality compared with women with low apple consumption.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>You\u2019ll often hear me talking about a lower or higher risk of mortality, but what does that mean? Isn\u2019t the risk of dying 100 percent for everyone, eventually? As you can see in my graph below and at 0:40 in my video <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/friday-favorites-for-flavonoid-benefits-dont-peel-apples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday Favorites: For Flavonoid Benefits, Don\u2019t Peel Apples<\/a><\/strong>, I present some survival curves to help you visualize these concepts. For example, if you follow thousands of older women over time, nearly half succumb over a period of 15 years, but that half includes those who rarely, if ever, ate apples\u2014less than 20 apples a year. Instead, those averaging more like half a small apple a day lived longer; over the same time period, closer to 40 percent or so of them died. And, those who ate one small apple or about a quarter of a large apple a day survived even longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100367\" src=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-40.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-40.png 1920w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-40-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-40-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-40-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-40-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-40-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-40-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-40-720x405.png 720w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0-40-540x304.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><br \/>Why is that the case? It seems to be less the apple of one\u2019s eye than the apple of one\u2019s arteries. Even a fraction of an apple a day is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4808887\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">associated<\/a> with 24 percent lower odds of having severe major artery calcifications, a marker of vascular disease. You may think that\u2019s an obvious benefit since apples are fruits and fruits are healthy, but the effect was not found for pears, oranges, or bananas.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Both of these studies were done on women, but a similar effect (with apples and onions) was <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/8597679\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> for men. We think it\u2019s because of the flavonoids, naturally <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29086478\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">occurring<\/a> phytonutrients concentrated in apples. As you can see below and at 2:02 in my <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/friday-favorites-for-flavonoid-benefits-dont-peel-apples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>video<\/strong><\/a>, they\u2019re thought to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6315948\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improve<\/a> artery function and lower blood pressure, leading to improvements in blood flow throughout the body and brain, thereby decreasing the risk of heart disease and strokes. You don\u2019t know, though, until you put it to the test.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100369\" src=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-02.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-02.png 1920w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-02-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-02-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-02-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-02-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-02-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-02-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-02-720x405.png 720w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-02-540x304.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><br \/>When I first saw a paper on <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29086478\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">testing<\/a> flavonoid-rich apples, I assumed they had selectively bred or genetically engineered a special apple. But, no. The high-flavonoid apple was just an apple with its peel, compared to the low-flavonoid apple, which was the exact same apple with its peel removed. After eating the apples, flavonoid levels in the bloodstream shot up over the next three hours in the unpeeled apple group, compared to the peeled group, as you can see below, and at 2:36 in my <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/friday-favorites-for-flavonoid-benefits-dont-peel-apples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>video<\/strong><\/a>. This <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29086478\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coincided<\/a> with significantly improved artery function in the unpeeled apple group compared to the peeled one. The researchers concluded that \u201cthe lower risk of CVD [cardiovascular disease] with higher apple consumption is most likely due to the high concentration of \ufb02avonoids in the skin which improve endothelial [arterial] function\u201d\u2014though, it could be anything in the peel. All we know is that apple peels are particularly good for us, <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/22019438\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">improving<\/a> artery function and lowering blood pressure.\u00a0<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100371\" src=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-39.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-39.png 1920w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-39-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-39-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-39-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-39-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-39-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-39-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-39-720x405.png 720w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/2-39-540x304.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/>Even compared to spinach? As you can see in the graph below and at 3:14 in my <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/friday-favorites-for-flavonoid-benefits-dont-peel-apples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>video<\/strong><\/a>, if you give someone about three-quarters of a cup of cooked spinach, their blood pressure drops within two to three hours. If you instead eat an apple with some extra peel thrown in, you get a similar effect. The researchers concluded that apples and spinach almost immediately improve artery function and lower blood pressure.\u00a0<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100373\" src=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-14.png 1920w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-14-960x540.png 960w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-14-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-14-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-14-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-14-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-14-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-14-720x405.png 720w, https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/app\/uploads\/2024\/01\/3-14-540x304.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/>What\u2019s nice about these results is that we\u2019re talking about whole foods, not some supplement or extract. So, easily, \u201cthis could be translated into a natural and low-cost method of reducing the cardiovascular risk profile of the general population.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more about apples, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/topics\/apples\/\">topic page<\/a> and check out the related videos below.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What about dried apples? See <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/dried-apples-versus-cholesterol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dried Apples vs. Cholesterol<\/strong><\/a>. What about apple cider vinegar? Check out<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/flashback-friday-does-apple-cider-vinegar-help-with-weight-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flashback Friday: Does Apple Cider Vinegar Help with Weight Loss?<\/a><\/strong>. And what about apples going head-to-head with a\u00e7ai berries? See <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/the-antioxidant-effects-of-acai-vs-apples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Antioxidant Effects of A\u00e7ai vs. Apples<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"\/>  <\/div>\n<p><script>\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n            if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n            n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n            t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n            s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '1582627921973608');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1675549\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peeled apples are pitted head-to-head against unpeeled apples (and spinach) in a test of artery function.\u00a0 Regularly eating apples may contribute to a lower risk of dying prematurely. \u201cModerate apple consumption,\u201d meaning one or two apples a week, \u201cwas associated with a 20% lower risk of all-cause mortality\u201d\u2014that is, dying from all causes put together\u2014\u201cwhereas &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}