"mangos" news and stories

Hey, this isn't just another recipe (when you get inside, go to the kitchen and click on the cookbook), it's the recipe for the Roast Duck with Mango Salsa mentioned in that Geico "Caveman" commercial! The one where the Geico rep takes the two cavemen out to lunch to apologize for calling them stupid. One caveman doesn't have an appetite, but the other one says "I'll have the Roast Duck, with Mango Salsa.

Although research is still in preliminary stages, early results from a University of Queensland study presented at the Australian Health and Medical Research Congress indicated that compounds in mangoes may offer some surprising health benefits. They seem to act on the "same pathways that diabetes and cholesterol drugs target," blocking or activating receptors known as "peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors." These receptors play key rolls in people with diabetes and high cholesterol, but are also being linked with some types of cancer. If the mango compounds do target them, it is possible that the fruits could ease the effects of diabetes and high cholesterol, or even be able to combat cancerous cells.

The name "nutritional bioactive" is given to the unique components of fruits and vegetables that have particular health effects and study of these bioactives has been primarily directed at temperate, highly common fruits and vegetables (broccoli, etc). The researchers at Queensland have focused on tropical fruits, which is what led to their current findings.

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