Page 8 - Bio Rex NONI Booklet

fermentation processing pre-digests the fruit high-weight

macromolecular components to their easily absorbable and

less caloric break-down products, whilst preserving and

concentrating NONI’s and other fruits’ qualified precious

secondary-metabolite bioactive fractions, which are not

substrates of microbial hydrolytic activity.

A large number of these NONI ripe-fruit components, mainly

phenolic compounds, organic acids and alkaloids of

biomedical relevance have been identified, classified, and

described in terms of chemical structure-biological activity, by

a solid scientific and medical literature in the last two decades.

To quote only the most relevant molecules so far identified in

terms of unique health properties, a specific polysaccharide-

rich fraction, containing mainly the simple sugars glucuronic

acid, galactose, arabinose, and rhamnose, has been identified.

A list of unique trisaccharide fatty acid esters (named

noniosides), along with the phenolics damnachanthal (an

anthraquinone, in traces in the fruit) Americanin A (a

neolignan), narcissoside (a flavonol glycoside), scopoletin and

isoscopoletin (coumarins), aesculetin, asperulosidic acid

(iridoid) and the well described biologically active flavonoids

rutin and quercetin, and many active phytosterols and

terpenoids, were found to be potent antioxidants, free

radical neutralizers, detoxifiers, lipid- and energy

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