Abstract
The goal is to study the effect of jam from cherry plum with a high content of biologically active substances on the health of adolescents and to establish the reproducibility of the effect obtained. Methods. 62 teenagers (pupils of the 7th and 8th grades of the school) were examined, the average age was 13.02±0.71 years old, boys – 36 (58.1 %), girls – 26 (41.9 %). A part of teenagers at school daily for 15 days received 30 g of cherry plum jam containing high concentrations of flavonoids (anthocyanins, leucoanthocyanins), pectins, vitamins (ascorbic acid), macro- and microelements (potassium, copper, zinc, iron, etc.). The state of the circulatory and respiratory organs, the psychomotor properties of the nervous system (NS) and the mental performance of adolescents has been studied. Results. The achieved values of indicators in adolescents who used and did not use cherry plum in the 1st and 2nd year of the study are compared. In the first year of the study, adolescents who used jam showed achievement of optimal values of arterial pressure, stroke volume of the heart and minute volume of blood circulation, total peripheral vascular resistance, peak expiratory flow rate, average rate of tapping test tapping and of the nervous system lability compared to adolescents, not using jam. Similar achievements in the health status of adolescents who used cherry plum jam were recorded in the 2nd year of the study, but less pronounced. Conclusions. The use of cherry plum with a high content of biologically active substances as an additional food leads to improved physical health, psychomotor properties of the nervous system and mental health of adolescents. The resulting healing effect of the use of jam from the fruit of cherry plum is replicable in subsequent studies.
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