Want to boost your antioxidants? Try a fruit coctail -- with alcohol!

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<p>Somehow I suspect that this research was sponsored by the liquor industry.</p>

<p>"A fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but may count as health food, U.S. and Thai researchers said on Thursday.</p>

<p>Adding ethanol — the type of alcohol found in rum, vodka, tequila and other spirits — boosted the antioxidant nutrients in strawberries and blackberries, the researchers found.</p>

<p>Any colored fruit might be made even more healthful with the addition of a splash of alcohol, they report in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture…'<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18218185/”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18218185/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Scarily, NSM, it makes a little sense, but only a splash of alcohol. Uuuhh, ‘waiter, I’d like to wash my vitamin down with a Cosmo, please ;)’</p>

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<p>Sounds good to me at the moment! I think I’ll combine it with some dark chocolate – I like to think I eat a healthy diet…</p>