Credibility the key to continued functional food and beverage growth | Australian Food News

Credibility the key to continued functional food and beverage growth | Australian Food News

Here's a great article on the trend of functional foods which highlights the future for Kakadu Juice as a unique cocktail of superfoods. Its uniqueness comes from the inclusion of Australian wild foods which have not been genetically or selectively engineered as foods which are more adapted to our supermarket distribution systems than for our best nutrition.

Wild foods, which include acai, mangosteen, pomegranate along with the indigenous Australian ingredients of Kakadu plum, Illawarra and Davidson plums, wild rosella, pepperberry and various functional herb and spice extracts are nutrient dense and loaded with phytonutrients. These might be as simple as sugars and not just sucrose, glucose or fructose but every other naturally occurring pentose and hexose (5 and 6 carbon sugars) in small clusters or oligosaccharides. As the author states, [these sugar clusters] act as markers in important recognition processes such as microbial infection, cancer metastasis [maintenance and growth] and cellular adhesion in inflammation, in addition to many intracellular communication events.

Then there are the more recognizable phytonutrients including antioxidants (a massive group of compounds), immune stimulants, inflammation moderators, restoratives, adaptogens and more.

Check out this link for more details on this remarkable superfood beverage and how you can benefit from the legacy of the world's longest living culture.