NutritionFacts.org
Browsing: Home / Videos / Is Carob Good For You?

Health Topics

Browse through 1,577 different health topics
from A-Z!
  1. #
  2. A
  3. B
  4. C
  5. D
  6. E
  7. F
  8. G
  9. H
  10. I
  11. J
  12. K
  13. L
  14. M
  15. N
  16. O
  17. P
  18. Q
  19. R
  20. S
  21. T
  22. U
  23. V
  24. W
  25. X
  26. Y
  27. Z
Browse All Topics

Is Carob Good For You?

Preliminary research on this chocolate substitute.

November 20, 2010 |
GD Star Rating
loading...
FavoriteLoadingAdd to My Playlist

Topics

Supplementary Info

Sources Cited

S. Klenow, F. Jahns, B. L. Pool-Zobel, and M. Glei. Does an extract of carob (ceratonia siliqua l.) have chemopreventive potential related to oxidative stress and drug metabolism in human colon cells? J. Agric. Food. Chem., 57(7):2999-3004, 2009.

Acknowledgements

Image thanks to Arpingstone via Wikimedia Commons.

Transcript

We know cocoa is good for us. What about carob? Harmful, harmless, or helpful?
Wonderful stuff. There’s not a big carob lobby, so there hasn’t been much research, but this year we did learn that in the very least carob can protect human colon cells from DNA damage.

To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by veganmontreal.

To help out on the site please email volunteer@nutritionfacts.org

Dr. Michael Greger

Doctor's Note

Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out theprequel about chocolate and cocoa. Also, there are 1,449 other subjects covered in the rest of my videos--please feel free to explore them as well!

For some context, please check out my associated blog post: Soymilk: shake it up!

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/mgreger/ Michael Greger M.D.

    Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the prequel about chocolate and cocoa. Also, there are 1,449 other subjects covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/7worships/ 7worships

    Thank you for this article on carob. I am allergic to chocolate and was wondering about carob.

©2012 NutritionFacts.org - All Rights Reserved | In partnership with the Jesse & Julie Rasch Foundation
Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Contact Us