Organic Jujube 1kg – Sun-Dried, Raw-Food, Vegan & Untreated Red Date Berries

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Winter jujube ( Ziziphus jujuba Mill. cv. Dongzao) is a traditional plant of China, which has been cultivated for more than 4,000 years. It is regarded as one of the most popular fruits in the world due to its incomparable nutritive value, susceptive aroma, and delicious taste. Winter jujube contains many bioactive compounds such as polysaccharides, ascorbic acid, phenolic acids, amino acid, flavonoids, and mineral constituents, so that displays antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and anticancer abilities ( 1– 3). Compared with dried jujube, fresh jujube fruit has more antioxidants and tastes better. However, after harvesting, jujube is highly susceptible to get contaminated by pathogenic including Alternaria alternata, Botrytis cinerea, and Penicillium expansum ( 4, 5). On the other hand, numerous uncontrollable elements that include respiration, transpiration, temperature, and relative humidity during postharvest storage and transportation have resulted in many quality losses of jujube and critically reduce farmer’s income. Thus, it is of importance to apply an effective strategy to preserve the postharvest quality of jujube during transportation and storage. As seen in Figure 3, the result demonstrated that 5-, 10-, and 20-min CAP treatment all have no impacts on TAB count as compared to control. This may be due to 200 μl L –1 sodium hypochlorite displayed a brilliant disinfect effect on Jujube and then, the TAB count stood in a safe range ( 35). Our result was in good agreement with the finding of Won et al., who formulated that P. italicum were reduced by microwave-powered cold plasms from 96.6 to 85.0 and 16.0% with an independent input power manner ( 46). Furthermore, low/ice temperature environment is strictly unfavorable for bacteria growth and proliferation ( 47). Its precise natural distribution is uncertain due to extensive cultivation, but its origin is thought to be in southwest Asia, between Lebanon, northern India, and southern and central China, and possibly also southeastern Europe though more likely introduced there. [5] It grows wild but is also a garden shrub, kept for its fruit.

Jujube fruit extract may also help to relieve constipation. A small study found that those who took liquid jujube extract had improved constipation symptoms compared to those who took a placebo.Three ounces of jujube are estimated to have between 275 and 541 milligrams of phenols. The next best source is cherries, with about 114 milligrams per 3 ounces. According to a scientific research, consuming 40 milligrams of jujube in a day prevents your intestinal mucosa from harmful compounds such as ammonia. And it also helps to excrete toxic substances that accumulate in your body thanks to contaminated food. It also improves your gastrointestinal health. 6. Maintain Adequate Blood Pressure Jujube is mostly consumed as dry candy, but you can eat it whole or juice it. However, dried jujube is used for medicinal purposes. Key Laboratory of Hospital Chinese Medicine Preparation, Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, The Fourth Clinical Medical College of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Shenzhen, China People who suffer from anxiety and long term stress are recommended to consume the fruit raw or in juice form. The fruit contains a good amount of anxiolytics, which help soothe the body and are known positively impact your hormonal levels, preventing the body from the effect of stress hormones such as cortisol. 4. Anti Cancer Effect

Thomsen Ferreira explains what we know and what we have yet to learn about jujube’s benefits. Nutritional benefits You should aim for 25 to 35 grams of fiber a day. A diet that’s high in fiber has many benefits, including: a b "jujube". Oxford English Dictionary (Onlineed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) One of the traditional medicinal uses of jujube is as a laxative. While there’s been little research on its laxative effect on people, you may want to be careful with the amount of jujube fruit that you eat. Phenolic compounds, or phenols, are powerful antioxidants, which means they help fight the effects of free radicals throughout your body.Jujube fruit is also combined with other herbs to treat colds and influenza. The fruit contains many different healthy properties like vitamins, amino acids. The use of the fruit can be helpful for spleen diseases in Chinese medicine. [31] Other uses [ edit ] While its early results may be promising, there’s no hard proof that jujube is any more beneficial for your health than similar fruits. But it may be a fun alternative to your regular go-to’s if you’re looking to switch things up and have the budget for it. In folk medicine, three pieces of jujube are recommended to be consumed daily, about 15g of dried weight in total. The content of benefit ingredients within jujube could be changed robustly between fresh jujubes and dried ones ( Guo et al., 2015; USDA, 2012; Chen et al., 2013). The dietary nutrient facts of main ingredients in fresh and dried jujubes are summarized in Supplementary Table S1, which provides an appropriate recommendation for selection of different forms of jujube for certain health benefits. In addition, it has been reported that the content of bio-active ingredients, including nucleotide, flavonoid and polysaccharide, varied among different jujube cultivars ( Chen et al., 2013), as indicated in Supplementary Table S2. Jujubes from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Xinjiang, Shandong, Ningxia provinces of China had higher chemical amounts, which might contribute better biological functions and could be a good choice of selection. Author Contributions

When you get down to it, jujube may have some very positive health effects. But that doesn’t mean you need to load up on it right away. Triterpenic acids have been isolated and purified from jujube, including ceanothenic acid, zizyberanal acid, zizyberenalic acid, zizyberanalic acid, and ceanothic acid ( Figures 3C) ( Yu et al., 2012). These acids possessed notable inhibitory activity on the activated inflammatory cells, and which could be one of the main ingredients in supporting the anti-inflammatory activity of jujube ( Yu et al., 2012). Besides, jujuboside and flavonoid in the fruit were also proposed to be active compounds, and which might responsible for anti-inflammatory effects ( Goyal et al., 2011). Another animal study showed that jujube essential oil could inhibit the inflammatory responses of skin ( Al-Reza et al., 2010).

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where A 0 and A t represent the absorbance values of the mixture prepared by 10 μl ethanol or 10 μl jujube extract mixed with 90 μl ABTS solution, respectively. Total Phenolic Content (TPC) Jujube or sweet red dates are eaten throughout Asia - in desserts, soups and brewed as a tea. They are the fruits of the Ziziphus jujuba, and are also known as Chinese dates, Korean dates or natsume in Japanese. High in antioxidants. Jujube fruits are a rich source of compounds such as flavonoids, polysaccharides, and triterpenic acids. Some of these compounds have antioxidant properties. Jujube polysaccharide has been reported to improve hematological parameters in anemic animal models. Mice of blood deficiency model were induced by releasing blood and injection of cyclophosphamide. The levels of RBC, hemoglobin and hematocrit were decreased, and the level of platelet was increased in model mice, as compared to control group. Compared with model mice, the decreased levels of RBC, hemoglobin and hematocrit were reversed by treatment with jujube extract; while the increased level of platelet however was down regulated in jujube-treated mice ( Xu et al., 2004). In another investigation, the activities of dietary jujube on the levels of RBC, hemoglobin and hematocrit were analyzed in colitis-associated colon cancer mice. These hematopoietic parameters in cancer mice were significantly decreased, as compared to control group; however, which were markedly increased in the jujube-treated mice ( Periasamy et al., 2020), suggesting possible beneficial effects of this fruit on cancer patients suffering from anemia. Besides, the extract of jujube possessed the ability to stimulate the activity of ATPase, i.e., Na+-K+-ATPase, Ca 2+-ATPase and Ca 2+-Mg 2+-ATPase, in erythrocyte, and therefore which was shown to promote bone marrow nuclear proliferation and to inhibit atrophy thymus and spleen in blood deficient animals ( Miao et al., 2006; Miao et al., 2010). Moreover, the intake of jujube extract (100–400mg/kg) was found to increase the level of EPO in blood circulation, which suggested that jujube might promote RBC level through up regulation of EPO production. In support of this notion, the applied jujube extract at concentrations of 0.75–3mg/ml in cultured Hep3B cells for 48h increased the expression of EPO transcription, and the increase was shown to be in a dose-dependent manner ( Chen et al., 2014b). In parallel, the applied jujube extract was able to stimulate the protein expression of EPO, giving ∼50% increase of the total protein ( Lam et al., 2016). The circulating EPO is produced by adult kidney cells; while kidney dysfunction contributes to inadequate amount of EPO production and renal anemia. In ibuprofen-induced nephrotoxicity rats, the intake of jujube extract (500mg/kg) improved kidney function by declining the levels of creatinine and urea, and this treatment could prevent histopathological damages of kidney ( Awad et al., 2014). On the other hand, the intake of Jian-Pi-Yi-Shen, a Chinese herbal decoction comprising of Astragali Radix, Atractylodis Macrocephalae Rhizoma, Dioscoreae Rhizoma, Cistanches Herba, and other four herbs, was able to improve renal function and kidney injury in anemia rats suffering from chronic kidney disease ( Chen et al., 2019). Jian-Pi-Yi-Shen improved the hematological parameters and stimulated EPO production ( Chen et al., 2019). Massive EPO-producing cells are identified in the renal interstitium. The occurrence of renal interstitial fibrosis is accompanied by decrease of fibroblasts, which impairs the production of EPO. Moreover, Jian-Pi-Yi-Shen was believed to ameliorate renal interstitial fibrosis, and the renal recovery might be related to improvement of EPO production. Thus, the function of jujube in promoting EPO expression in renal anemia patients was in line to that of Jian-Pi-Yi-Shen ( Chen et al., 2019). This assumption requires further studies as to confirm the ability of jujube to prevent/treat renal anemia through regulation of EPO production. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Supplementary Material

Winter jujube was harvested from an orchard located Dali, Shaanxi, China and immediately transported to our laboratory within 3 days. A total of 700 jujubes (weight: 12–16 g) of uniform size, color, and without visual defects were collected and randomly allocated into four groups of 175 fruit each.

Depending on the size of the fruit, eating one to three jujube fruits will meet the daily vitamin C recommendations of 90 milligrams for men and 75 milligrams for women. Are There Side Effects from Eating Jujube Fruit? Brain health: One research paper suggests jujube may have brain-boosting effects, including improving memory and learning potential.