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What sweet irony it must be for food scientists. At a time when pharmaceutical companies and dietary supplement makers have concocted tablets or capsules in answer to almost every ailment known to man, food researchers keep turning up new evidence showing that the best preventive medicines on earth may in fact grow on trees.

We’re AppleBoost Products Inc., and we’ve taken one slice of modern food science — that pertaining to antioxidant-rich apple peels — and turned it into one of the most health-promoting discoveries yet uncovered. Apple peel, as with the skin of most fruit, is chock-full of antioxidants, those health-promoting warriors that neutralize harmful compounds (like free radicals) inside the body. We’ve taken the best that apple peels have to offer — dietary fiber, anti-inflammatory properties and an abundance of antioxidants (collectively termed "bioactivity") — and made it possible to infuse them into dozens of different types of foods.

The AppleBoost family of products is built around “Dried Apple Peel Powder" (DAPP™), a patented drying and powdering process (Patent Ap. #11/018,833) developed at Cornell University’s prestigious Food Science Department that converts the most nutritious part of an apple, the peel, into a fortifying food ingredient. While DAPP may look unsophisticated to the untrained eye, Cornell researcher Rui Hai Liu, Ph.D., who developed the process, explains that dried apple peel powder has dozens of bioactive compounds that act additively and synergistically with other foods to provide numerous health benefits.

And that, in turn, has led to AppleBoost Products: a specialized functional food company with two exciting new products that harness the nutritional powers that Mother Nature packed into apples. We are pleased to introduce:

• AppleBoost energy snack tubes — a low-calorie, antioxidant-rich blend of organic applesauce fortified with dried apple peel powder (DAPP), packed in squeezable, freezable tubes designed for the convenience of athletes and others on the go. Two 32-gram tubes of AppleBoost energy snacks have the equivalent of one medium sized apple peel blended into the applesauce.
• AppleBoost DAPP caps — dried apple peel powder (DAPP) packed in capsules, pure and simple. Two capsules provide the equivalent of one medium-size apple peel.

While applesauce and dried apple peel powder (DAPP) are naturally rich sources of antioxidants, they are not a substitute for fruits and vegetables, which provide a wide range of antioxidants and essential vitamins and minerals. Please consult your doctor or registered dietitian regarding a diet or nutritional plan that is right for you.