Digestive Tract Support

In addition to its antioxidant and antiinflammatory nutrients that help protect the digestive tract as a whole, celery contains pectinbased polysaccharides that can provide the stomach with special benefits. Weve become accustomed to thinking about polysaccharides as starchy molecules that are used by cells as a way to store up simple sugars. But there are other types of polysaccharides in plants, including the nonstarch, pectinbased polysaccharides found in celery. (Pectin is a sugarrelated molecule that is largely formed from a substance called glucuronic acid.) The pectinbased polysaccharides found in celery