Benefits of Prune Juice

Prune juice benefits are widespread and beneficial for everyone. Not only is prune juice an effective, mild laxative, but prune juice benefits also include potentially preventing heart disease, reducing oxidative stress and more. Let’s look in detail at how prune juice benefits the body.

1. Has Mild Laxative Effects to Relieve Constipation
Prune juice has long been regarded as an effective fighter against constipation, especially in the elderly population. However, constipation is a condition experienced by people of all ages, and pharmaceutical laxatives can be very dangerous if used in higher quantities. If you regularly suffer from constipation, try using natural laxatives, like prune juice, in your diet to keep your digestive system properly.
A 2008 study in the Korean Journal of Community Nutrition found that “supplementation of prune products is effective to provide energy, dietary fibre and water, and to relieve constipation symptoms for constipated adults.” Prune product supplementation helped to soften stool, increase bowel movement frequency, decrease the length of each movement and decrease the pain involved.
At least one reason for this improvement involves the fibre in prune juice. This insoluble fibre fuels the healthy bacteria in your digestive system responsible for digestive health, known as probiotics. These bacteria must exist in large quantities within your gut in order to maintain a healthy immune system, as well as digestive tract.
2. May Help Halt the Growth of Colon Cancer
One study published in the Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology did find a significant effect of prune juice on colon cancer cells. The juice completely stopped the growth of one common colon cancer and induced apoptosis (cell death) in those cells. Thus, it may be a natural cancer treatment for at least one type of cancer.
3. Prevents Heart Disease
Because they’re rich in antioxidants, prunes have a great potential to prevent and slow many diseases, including coronary heart disease. Phenolic compounds in dried plums have been shown to inhibit the oxidation of LDL cholesterol (usually referred to as “bad” cholesterol), which can lead to cardiovascular disease. The potassium level in prune juice is also beneficial to long-term heart health. Atherosclerosis is a common heart condition involving the build-up of plaque, cholesterol and other substances on the artery walls. A 2009 study from the University of Minnesota found that consuming dried plums may be an effective way to slow the spread of atherosclerosis. Dried plums lower cholesterol by more than just antioxidant impact — the soluble fibre found in plums and dried prune products interferes with the body’s absorption of dietary cholesterol. These fibres bind to bile acids that the liver creates to help your body digest fat, which is then carried out by the fibre compounds in prunes in your stool. When your body recognizes the loss of these bile acids, the liver creates more, which results in a higher use of the cholesterol in the body.
Other methods by which prune juice is good for your heart is the high level of vitamin K, a heart-healthy vitamin that helps prevent the calcification of arteries.
4. Reduces Oxidative Stress
As you may have already known by now, prunes are high-antioxidant foods, and prune juice contains levels of various important antioxidants. These are important because they prevent damage caused by free radicals that you encounter every day, in everything from chemicals in plastics to dangerous processed foods. Prune juice has been found to target one particular substance called peroxyl radical. This is considered an “intermediary” in the development of some very problematic free radicals, especially the ones that are known to cause plaque build-up in the body. Prune juice (along with coffee) was found to have a great antioxidative effect on peroxyl radical and is suggested to have preventative power over medical events and diseases related to this particular free radical.
5. Protects Against Liver Disease
Another benefit prune juice can offer you is a protection against diseases of the liver eg hepatitis, fatty liver, jaundice etc. In one eight-week study, researchers found an improvement in liver function after introducing prune juice and whole prunes into the diet. Two markers of liver function greatly improved, including alanine aminotransferase, which is released in large quantities into the blood when the liver is damaged or diseased.
6. Strengthens Bones
Prune juice isn’t just good for your organs alone — it’s good for your bones, too. When tested in cases particular to postmenopausal bone health, prune juice stopped “bone turnover” (the process of reabsorption and new bone growth) from escalating to too-high levels, prevented bone loss, and even reversed bone loss by changing the metabolism and increasing antioxidant activity within the bones.

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