Fruit's pectin may help inhibiting cancer development

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Pectin is a group of diverse polysaccharides found in all fruits and vegetables. Scientists have recently shown that a fragment of pectin binds to the mammalian protein galectin 3, which they believe to inhibit its roles in cancer progression and metastasis. http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/short/fj.08-106617v2
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