{"id":11828,"date":"2021-11-22T01:07:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T06:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/plaquebiere-chicoutai-rubuschamaemorus-its-vitamins-c\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T01:07:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T06:07:16","slug":"plaquebiere-chicoutai-rubuschamaemorus-its-vitamins-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/plaquebiere-chicoutai-rubuschamaemorus-its-vitamins-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaquebi\u00e8re (chicoutai) -Rubuschamaemorus &#8211; &amp; its vitamins \u00ab\u00a0C\u00a0\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plaquebi\u00e8re or&nbsp;<em>Rubus chamaemorus<\/em>is a subarctic herbaceous plant found in northern Canada and around the Gulf of St. Lawrence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/references-de-recherches\/\">(60).<\/a> &nbsp; The fruit of this plant, chicoutai, has also been studied for its pharmacological properties. Chicoutai is recognized as a very important source of vitamin C and ellagic acid. &nbsp;Ellagic acid has anticarcinogenic, antimutagenic and antioxidant properties<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/references-de-recherches\/\">(73-84).<\/a> Indeed, ellagic acid inhibits in vivo the chemical induction of several cancers in rodents, such as lung, liver, skin and esophageal cancer<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/references-de-recherches\/\">(81).<\/a> &nbsp;All the research suggests that chicoutai juice may prevent the formation of cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11829 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/indien.jpg\" alt=\"First Nation Man\" width=\"230\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/indien.jpg 519w, https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/indien-405x500.jpg 405w, https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/indien-400x493.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First Nations men treated &nbsp; the first European immigrants suffering from scurvy with chicoutai. &nbsp; During this same period, Northern Europeans used lingonberry for the same reasons, namely their high concentration of vitamin C and other phenolics.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Nations treated the first European immigrants suffering from scurvy with chicoutai. During this same period, Northern Europeans used lingonberry for the same reasons, namely their high concentration of vitamin C and other phenolics.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antioxydant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phytonutriment.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}