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Get Your Antioxidants

POSTED May 15, 8:11 AM

This is excerpted from About.com:

Foods are considered to be the preferred way of boosting antioxidant levels because they're thought to contain a wide array of antioxidant substances. Many of the them are also high in vitamins, minerals and fiber.

A USDA study analyzed the antioxidant content of commonly consumed foods. Researchers tested over 100 foods. Here is a ranked list of the top 20 fruits, vegetables and nuts:

Small red bean (dried), 1/2 cup
Wild blueberry, 1 cup
Red kidney bean (dried), 1/2 cup[br[
Pinto bean, 1/2 cup
Blueberry (cultivated), 1 cup
Cranberry, 1 cup (whole)
Artichoke (cooked hearts), 1 cup
Blackberry, 1 cup
Prune, 1/2 cup
Raspberry, 1 cup
Strawberry, 1 cup
Red delicious apple, 1
Granny Smith apple, 1
Pecan, 1 ounce
Sweet cherry, 1 cup
Black plum, 1
Russet potato, 1 cooked
Black bean (dried), 1/2 cup
Plum, 1
Gala apple, 1

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Hsiao-Ching Chou
Hsiao-Ching Chou is a partner at Suzuki + Chou Communimedia, where she serves as a senior consultant in communications. For nearly eight years prior, she was the award-winning food editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper. She and her television producer husband live in Seattle with their daughter, who was born in October 2006.