CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pomegranate Juice, Beta-Glucan, Synsepalum Dulcificum

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: David Harpp

Document Summary

Food is the only raw material that ever goes into our body => we are what we eat . We are what we read -> every day we are bombarded by some novel information. Adam and eve -> apple but it is not said in the bible that it is an apple, it"s just the way people in the middle ages drew it: pomegranate. Anticancer properties : contains natural aromatase inhibitors -> if we culture breast cancer cells in a petri dish and we bathe them pomegranate juice -> they multiply less quickly. But we cannot assume that pomegranate has any effect on humans. Advertisers will use the rst info to advertise pomegranate juice as a way to cheat death. We need to be careful about not to overstate what the bene cial properties may be: dried apricots. Portrayed as a miracle fruit -> contains beta carotene which is an anti-oxidant. Analyse all the information in the scienti c literature.