The US Government’s Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University has developed a new test. It measures the capacity of foods and supplements to act against free radicals — highly reactive substances that form in the body and can cause oxidative damage to body cells.

The unit of measurement is an ORAC (= Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity). These ORAC tests are now available from the independent Brunswick Laboratories. The tests show that a diet of five servings of fruit and vegetables a day provides around 1,400 ORAC units, but only a minority of people achieve even that.

MultiShield is designed to supplement and complement a healthy life style that includes regular moderate exercise and a well balanced diet, low in saturated fat and with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.

A daily intake of Uni-Vite’s MultiShield has been rated by the independent Brunswick Laboratories at over 4,300 ORAC units! What’s more, MultiShield has been measured against a selection of leading U.S. multi-vitamin and mineral brands using ORAC testing.

MultiShield’s score of 4,319 ORAC units a day contrasts with a top score of 682 ORAC units for the best competitive brand, and only 96 for a major household name product. In other words, MultiShield absorbed six to 64 times more potentially damaging free radicals than these supermarket and drugstore products.

Yet the ability of the anti-oxidants in MultiShield to act against free radicals is only one advantage of the formula. MultiShield includes eight other vital groups of nutrients, each designed to provide its own specific health maintenance benefits.