Guest Post Courtesy of the Xtend-Life Blog
Apples have long been known to be good to include in a general healthy daily diet. They have become synonymous with health in the old wive’s tale of “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”, which I am sure we all remember from childhood. However, was the peel ever mentioned as perhaps being one of the most important aspects of a apple’s benefits to health? I don’t remember my mother telling me to eat the skin as a child, so have I been missing out? Apple peel contains Ursolic acid. This is the natural chemical that gives an apple its natural waxy surface shine. Ursolic acid is a natural acid, that recent tests have shown may be capable of inhibiting various types of cancer cells by inhibiting the STAT3 activation pathway, and human fibrosarcoma cells. [1] [2] Ursolic acid is not only found in apples.
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