1. Berries, Health and Believability Berries and Human Health

3. The James Hutton Institute – founded on science

4. Our main locations

5. Berry Good For You?

6. If you “google” Berry and health?

7. Wonder berries?

8. Wonder Berries – claims!

10. Berries with improved health aspects

12. Living with oxygen & free radicals

13. A very simplified version? Polyphenols as antioxidants

15. Vitamin C content

16. Berries and RDA for Vitamin C

17. A useful review

18. Free radicals are implicated in cardiovascular diseases

19. Cardiovascular disease (CVD)

21. Free radicals and Alzheimer’s?

22. Intake of blackcurrants improves outcomes in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease

23. Polyphenol benefits occur in gut?

25. Berry polyphenols inhibit growth of colon cancer cells

26. Colon cancer, DNA damage and polyphenols

27. Colonic metabolism of berry polyphenols

28. Fermentates as effective as berry extracts

29. Equally effective, different composition

30. Control of food digestion?

31. Lipid digestion and lipase

32. Reduced lipid digestion and obesity

33. Inhibition of starch digestion

35. Human trial – blunted glycaemic response

36. Berry polyphenols inhibit the intestinal parasite, Giardia

37. Tannin-rich berries most effective

38. Other health areas

39. Summary

40. Acknowledgements

41. Questions?