An Apple Powder Pill a Day

(PHOTO: CHRISTY JOHNSTON)

I am a psychic. Didn’t I tell you that before? My bad. Anyways. I just had a vision about the future of fruit. You see a group of Cornell researchers have isolated several compounds from apple peels that all have anticancer effects on human breast, liver and colon cancer cells. Soon the health food companies will being to churn out the “Apple A Day Pill” - a concentrated form of these triterpenoids.

Subsequent clinical tests will show that the Apple A Day Pill does absolutely nothing, compared to consumption of whole apples. Media will report echoes of the whole tomato versus lycopene scandal of 2003.

It will be yet another chapter in the ‘we spend billions of research dollars to figure out that eating a balance diet with lots of unprocessed foods and fresh fruits and veggies is good for us” book.