Cranberry Phytochemicals

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Cranberry(Vaccinium macrocarpon) is a small, dark red fruit that consider a very rich source of phytochemicals (Cunninghmet al .,2004).It contains many active components such as flavonols,sugar,organic acid and flavonoid as anthocyanins and proanthocyanidis(Ariga.,2004) .Nowadays, using cranberry have been expanded from using it as source of healthy food into medical one. Cranberry components exhibit various health benefits including prevention adhesion of microbes in urinary tract(Raid et al.,1992),cholesterol reduction (Reed et al.,1992). Moreover it has a very strong antioxidant activity (Yan et al.,2002) and in vitro anticancer effects because it's activity prevent tumor cells proliferation (sun et al.,2007). As well as Cranberry’s phytochemicals

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