 In addition to suppressing liver cancer growth in vitro, crumbaries have often been found to have similar effects against human breast, colon, brain tumor, oral, and ovarian cancer cells. Here's the latest looking at prostate cancer cell growth. The United States is the highest rate of prostate cancer in the world, so let's try a Native American fruit. Researchers started out with about 50,000 human prostate cancer cells in the Petri dish, and if you do nothing, within a day you're closer to 100,000 than 200,000 than nearly 400,000 within 72 hours. But by adding just a smidgen of crumbaries, or two smidgens, you can see they block that exponential cancer growth. The reason they tested such tiny concentrations is that we only absorb a small fraction of the crumbary phytonutrients we eat into our bloodstream. Still, crumbaries are cheap. If drug companies and supplement manufacturers are going to capitalize on this, they needed to find crumbary's active ingredient. Here's some of the various phytonutrients in crumbaries, so different fractions were tested against various types of cancer to find the magic bullet. Yes, the anthocyanin phytonutrients inhibit colon cancer cell proliferation, about 15% for example, about the same with the proanthocyanidin fraction, but nothing compared to the total crumbary extract of the whole fruit. There seemed to be an additive or synergistic anti-prolivative effects resulting from a combination of the various components compared to individual purified phytochemicals. So it's always better to eat the whole fruit. How do you do that with crumbaries, though? Although 5% of crumbaries are sold fresh, the vast majority are consumed as processed products. To get the same amount of anthocyanin phytonutrients in a cup of fresh or frozen crumbaries, you'd have to drink 16 cups of crumbary juice cocktail, eat 7 cups of dried crumbaries, or 26 cans of crumbary sauce. The problem is that raw crumbaries are so tart that folks may opt for the dried in a taste test survey. Consumers said they wouldn't mind eating sweetened crumbaries every day, whereas raw crumbaries slope down towards maybe once a year. The problem is dried crumbaries tend to come sweetened. Raw crumbaries don't affect your blood sugar, but sweetened dried crumbaries do even the low sugar varieties. What about cranberry juice, or shall I say quote-unquote juice? Crumbary cocktail is only about a quarter of cranberry juice. The ruby red phytonutrients in crumbaries and pure cranberry juice are powerful antioxidants, increasing the antioxidant capacity of our bloodstream within hours of consumption. But the high fructose corn syrup acts as a pro-oxidant, even if you add vitamin C to it, as they did here, cancelling out some of the cranberry benefit. So how do you get the upsides without the down? Check out my pink juice video, where I offer a recipe for making no-sugar-added whole-fruit cranberry cocktail.