Potential Effect Of Some Functional Beverage On Blood Antioxidant Profile Of Children

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The present study was designed to investigate the effect of juice (a mixture of  plum, grape  juice and rosella extract with different recipe) with high natural antioxidant on the blood antioxidant profile as an indicator for children immunity. One hundred and twenty children( mean weight was 50±10 kg) divided into two groups normal and diabetic each groups divided into sub groups male and female(10 child each). Every child take 100 ml of juice for four weeks as follows: control groups were drunk no juice . antioxidant group was taken antioxidant tablets as unnatural antioxidant and other groups were drunk mixture of juice with Mix1,Mix2,Mix3 and Mix4.At the end the results showed that blood antioxidant in normal children showed that an increase in the activity of the antioxidant enzymes. Group six that were drinking  mix3 of juice showed 25.4% ,29% and 23.8%higher of Glutathione Reduced when
 compared with zero time parameter , control group  and antioxidant group. The highest mean values of Glutathione-s- Transferase  in female were drunk on mix3 of juice  when compared with zero time parameter and antioxidant group . The effect of drinking different levels of juice mixtures on completely blood picture in diabetic.
       male children showed that Hb levels for all groups were higher than control group. The highest  one was group four with 15.7 ,7.7 and5.9% increase  when compared with zero time parameter, control group and antioxidant groups respectively .WBCs results for diabetic female children, it could be showed that all groups were higher than control groups. The highest group were group six with 67.3, 52.7 and 25.7% increase when compared with zero time parameter, control group and antioxidant groups respectively . In conclusion, The results showed that the best treatment group 6 which drink mix 3 of juice for both normal and diabetic groups .

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