Biotransformed blueberry juice fights fat and diabetes

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 08:07 in Health & Medicine

Juice extracted from North American lowbush blueberries, biotransformed with bacteria from the skin of the fruit, holds great promise as an anti-obesity and anti-diabetic agent. The study, published in the International Journal of Obesity, was conducted by researchers from the Universite de Montreal, the Institut Armand-Frappier and the Universite de Moncton who tested the effects of biotransformed juices compared to regular blueberry drinks on mice...

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