Kakadu Plum – The Powerhouse Australian Ingredient

It’s widely known that Australia is known for its unique and exotic wildlife, but did you know that Australia also boosts some very powerful and natural beauty ingredients? The Kakadu Plum is one of these ingredients.

Science has discovered that the Kakadu Plum has the richest source of natural Vitamin C in the world. The Kakadu Plum as a concentration of 3200-5000mg/100g of Vitamin C compared to that of an orange which has 50mg/100g. That means you would have to eat 100 oranges to get the same amount of Vitamin C as you would eating just 1 Kakadu Plum.

                                                                                

The reason the Kakadu Plum as this much Vitamin C is because of where it’s found. The Kakadu National Park is extremely diverse when it comes to weather. Being exposed to extremely harsh and near-consistent sunlight, has forced the Kakadu Plum to come up with ingenious ways to protect itself. The Kakadu Plum has developed a cocktail of antioxidants to help protect it against the harsh UV rays from the sun. The result of this, is the most powerful vitamin rich fruit it is today.

Not only is the Kakadu Plum good for you to eat but is also an extremely beneficial ingredient in skin care products. As we know Vitamin C helps to slow down the signs of aging as well as being used to formulate proline an amino acid, which in turn creates collagen and makes your skin look and feel plumper and younger. Vitamin C is also, what is known as a skin brightener. This means that it aides in the correction of dark circles, age spots and pigmentation problems.

Kakadu Plum also contains the phytochemicals, Gallic and Ellagic acids, which gives it some medical properties as well. Gallic acid has two main benefits, antibacterial and antifungal. It also has shown some anti-inflammatory, anti-tumour, anti-mutagenic (fights against mutation) and anti-bronchodilator (increasing airflow to your lungs). Ellagic acid as the benefit of anti-carcinogenic, which is shown to fight against carcinogens in many different human tissues.

The Kakadu Plum is a versatile and powerful fruit that is beneficial in every way towards health and beauty which is why it’s becoming a very popular natural skin care ingredient. Want to fight anti-aging, then the Kakadu Plum is for you.