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Image of a collection of purple carrots and plums.

Image of a man picking a plum from a tree.

"Certainly there are some markers of inflammation which go down when they're taking plum extract."

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Image of a woman in a lab coat standing in front of a machine with tubes and small containers.

"The brain and gut are two organs that are talking to each other all the time, but we don't have enough knowledge in that space,"
Professor Sultanbawa said.

Image of a hand in a plastic glove squirting purple liquid into a bottle.

"The magic happens in the colon where the poo is,"
Professor Sultanbawa said.

Image of a machine with tubes coming out of containers with labels that read "stomach" and "colon"

Chris Hemsworth smiling in a photo.

Image of two men standing in front of a big processing tub of purple plums.

"It is early conversations; I think they weren't expecting to find something in their own backyard, so there's a lot of energy around that,"
CEO of Nutrafruit Sid Ghosh said.

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