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While blueberries and walnuts have long been at the top of the list of good-for-you foods, black rice is now being recommended by researchers as a good source of antioxidants.
The research was presented at the 240th national meeting of the American Cancer Society, the Baltimore Sun reported.
Just a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar and more fiber and vitamin E antioxidants," said Zhimin Xu, associate professor at the Department of Food Science at Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, the paper reported.
