Bitter Orange

🍊 Bitter Orange is used as a flavouring, and acidifying agent, for food

🍊 Bitter Orange is use in traditional herbal medicine to treat anxiety, nausea, indigestion, constipation, cancer and cardio-vascular disease.

🍊 It is also used as an appetite suppressant to treat obesity

🍊 Bitter Orange is a stimulant to improve athletic performance, energy, mental focus and cognition.

🍊 Bitter orange contains essential oils and many flavonoid-type compounds with antimicrobial, antioxidant, cytotoxic, anxiolytic, anti-diabetic, anti-obesity, and anti-inflammatory activities.

🍊 These compounds include an active alkaloid, which is chemically similar to adrenergic agents, and has similar effects to ephedra without the cardio-vascular side effects.