Effects of Apple on Human Health

Abstract

Apple is a temperate climate fruit species and grown on many continents. Apple fruit is cheap, worldwide known and most consumed fruit kind. Apple’s biochemical contents (Antioxidant and Phenolic) are important for human health. In our modern world due to stress and other various factors, our body is affected by free radicals every day. Antioxidants cling to these free radicals to protect the body from diseases (cancer, cardiovascular diseases, asthma) and eliminate the destructive effects of radicals. The consumption of an apple in our daily nutrition program is important for health and is recommended by experts.

Keywords: Apple (Malus X domesticaBorkh.), Antioxidant, Phenolic, Human Health

DOI: 10.7176/JSTR/5-10-09