ABC Releases POM Wonderful® Research Monograph

AUSTIN— The American Botanical Council (ABC) released a monograph on the published scientific and clinical studies relating to POM Wonderful® Pomegranate Juice.
The monograph includes summaries of six clinical trials, in which POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice was evaluated for its effects on cardiovascular disease, prostate cancer, and erectile dysfunction. The authors of the monograph provided information on the active constituents and safety of pomegranate juice, as well as distinguishing characteristics particular to POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice.
“When ABC approached POM Wonderful about doing a monograph, we thought this was an excellent opportunity to have a well-respected organization conduct a third party review of our research,” said Mark Dreher, Ph.D., vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs for POM Wonderful. “Having a monograph summarize and evaluate our growing body of research is an important part of our ongoing scientific process.”
“So far as we can determine, this may be the first monograph ever published that covers the clinical research on a conventional food product,” said Mark Blumenthal, founder and executive director of ABC, noting that although historically pomegranate has been used as both a food and as a medicinal plant, most people today consider it a conventional food.
POM Wonderful reported it currently has an additional 12 clinical studies either in progress or have been submitted for publication. The subjects of those studies range from prostate health to protection against the common cold, and six of those studies expand upon studies included in the ABC monograph.
Funding for the monograph on POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice was provided by POM Wonderful. As with other product-specific monographs produced by ABC, this monograph was written for ABC by independent experts familiar with the scientific literature on natural health products and was formally peer reviewed by various scientific experts for its accuracy.
ABC’s monograph on POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice is the second in a series of product specific monographs that the organization recently initiated. The first product specific monograph developed by ABC, released in March 2007, provided scientific and clinical trial data regarding the health benefits of CVT-E002®, the active ingredient in the ginseng-based dietary supplement COLD-fX®. COLD-fX is marketed as a treatment for reducing the frequency, severity and duration of cold and flu symptoms. Additional monographs concerning specific researched commercial products and ingredients are being developed by ABC.

ABC’s POM Wonderful® Pomegranate Juice monograph is available on the ABC Web site, one of the largest independent websites summarizing the scientific literature on medicinal plants and other plant-based ingredients.