Pomegranates have been known for years as a Superfood
Pomegranates have been hailed as superfoods for years, promising to prevent heart disease, relieve stress and has even been shown to improve your sex life.
If there wasn't enough plus points, it's now been found to be the elixir of youth.
A recent £2 million study, funded by Pomegreat PurePlus, has discovered that a daily dose of pomegranate could slow down the ageing process of DNA.
Researchers at the ProbelteBio laboratory in Murcia, Spain, gave an extract of the whole fruit - including pith, peel and seeds - to 60 volunteers everyday for a month in the form of a capsule.
They monitored the activity of chemicals in their bodies compared with those who took a placebo.
They found a significant decrease in a marker associated with cell damage, which caused impaired brain, muscle, liver and kidney function as well as ageing effects on the skin.
Dr Sergio Streitenberger, who led the study, says: "We are very excited about this study which we believe demonstrates that regular consumption of this pomegranate extract can slow down the process of DNA oxidation.
"One way to look at ageing is to think of it as rusting, or oxidising, a damaging process. Being able to gaurd against this process would be a significant breakthrough."
A study in Edinburgh recently revealed that drinking pomegranate juice reduces stress in the workplace.
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