Here's another reason to snack on dried fruit. Researchers have announced that people who eat dried plums as part of a regular diet can reduce their risk for developing colon cancer. This discovery was made by researchers at Texas A&M University and the University of North Carolina and presented at the 2015 Experimental Biology conference in Boston.
"Through our research, we were able to show that dried plums promote retention of beneficial bacteria throughout the colon and by doing so they may reduce the risk of colon cancer," Nancy Turner, study author and professor in the nutrition and food science department of Texas A&M University, said in a press release. Turner and colleagues examined how dried plums' antioxidants neutralized the type of changes that occur when cancerous cells damage the DNA. They found that when rats were fed a controlled diet of dried plums, two major phyla…
