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Black Currant

Black currant (Ribes nigrum) is a shrub whose dark berries are used for juice and whose seeds give an oil containing gamma-linolenic acid.

Also listed as Blackcurrant, Black Currant Seed Oil, Cassis, European Black Currant

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Anthocyanin amounts describe the fruit pigments used in the glaucoma trial. Seed oil instead supplies fatty acids, including gamma-linolenic acid, or GLA. A leaf tea or aqueous leaf extract belongs to another category again; the three cannot be treated as interchangeable versions of one treatment. 1 2 3

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