The US Government’s Human Nutrition Research Center on Ageing at Tufts University has developed a new test. It measures the capacity of foods and supplements to act against free radicals — highly reactive substances that form in the body and can cause oxidative damage to body cells.

The unit of measurement is an ORAC (= Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity). These ORAC tests are now available from the independent Brunswick Laboratories. The tests show that a diet of five servings of fruit and vegetables a day provides around 1,400 ORAC units, but only a minority of people achieve even that.

Nutrishield is designed to supplement and complement a healthy life style that includes regular moderate exercise and a well balanced diet, low in saturated fat and with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.

A daily intake of Uni-Vite’s NutriShield has been rated by the independent Brunswick Laboratories at 4,845 ORAC units! What’s more, NutriShield has been measured against six leading UK A-Z supplement brands using ORAC testing.

NutriShield’s score of over 4,800 ORAC units a day is contrasted with an average score for the 6 leading A-Z brands of only 187 ORAC units a day. In other words NutriShield absorbed 25 times more damaging free radicals than the average brand tested and was 16 times more effective than the next best brand (302 ORAC units).

Yet the ability of the anti-oxidants in NutriShield to act against free radicals is only one advantage of the formula. NutriShield includes other vital groups of nutrients, each designed to provide its own specific health maintenance benefits.