Coca cola, tangerine peel and cancer

There was a big debate on this Coca Cola pouch which said that Nepali people eat oranges without peeling them and eventually they had to apologize for it.

It is not the orange but tangerine that people eat without peeling. The peel is traditionally considered to have healing power for many diseases.

Now in a news released yesterday, it is told that human cancer cells, which contain an enzyme called P450 CYP1B1, was destroyed by a compound contained in tangerine peel.Last year, US department of agriculture and a Canadian pharmaceutical company confirmed that chewing tangerine peel will lower the LDL cholesterol as effectively as traditional drugs but without any side effects, similar to other plant pigments found in citrus fruits.

Although the researchers warned about the early stage of research to confirm the finding, I think there is no harm in eating what Nepali people have been doing for centuries to get healing effects without any side-effects.