Autumn olive are considered an invasive by many people now. The truth is the autumn olive fixes nitrogen in the soil which is why it’s invasive. The autumn berry is incredibly healthy. " They are high in vitamins A, C, and E, as well as lesser amounts of minerals such as phosphorous, magnesium, calcium, and potassium. They also contain iron as well as essential fatty acids and bioflavonoids. They are rich in ascorbic acid and have seventeen times the lycopene as ripe tomatoes." Autumn Olive Berries: An Amazing Superfood - The Outdoor Apothecary .Unfortunately autumn olives lack anthocyanins like the gmo tomatoes discussed here are rich in. Anthocyanins are the purple color those tomato contain which are typically expressed by experts as orac content. Aronia are very high in anthocyanins but taste bad https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212429218303687 .Aronia are the healthiest fruit in the united states for anthocyanins according to the usda.
https://www.superberries.com/Aronia-Antioxidant-King
Orac content refers to prevention of cancer causing free radicals.
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What Are ORAC Values?
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- By Nutrition Diva Monica Reinagel on August 14, 2013
If you spend a lot of time reading about nutrition (which I do), it starts to feel as if we’re all in some sort of contest to see who can eat the most antioxidants. Those who are interested in (dare I say, obsessed with?) antioxidant nutrition will often talk about a food’s ORAC value. As in, “Wild blueberries have an ORAC value of 9,621, while regular blueberries only have an ORAC of 4,669!” What on earth are these people talking about?
ORAC stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. It’s a lab test that attempts to quantify the “total antioxidant capacity” (TAC) of a food by placing a sample of the food in a test tube, along with certain molecules that generate free radical activity and certain other molecules that are vulnerable to oxidation . After a while, they measure how well the sample protected the vulnerable molecules from oxidation by the free radicals. The less free radical damage there is, the higher the antioxidant capacity of the test substance. There are actually a handful of different tests designed to measure total antioxidant capacity in this way, but the ORAC is probably the best known and most popular."
People who practice alchemy refer to these purple foods like that gmo tomato as ormus or containing Monoatomic minerals. I’m not an alchemist but pointing out their beliefs regarding nutrition and minerals. As an example “phosphorus was discovered by German alchemist Hennig Brand in 1669”.