Question:
Further to your column about grapefruit interacting with certain statins (“Not always a mixer”, September 10), I have heard that cooked grapefruit in marmalade no longer interacts with drugs. Do you have information on this?
Answer:
Grapefruit contains a group of compounds called furanocoumarins, which can interfere with our body’s metabolic processing of some medications.
A Canadian research group discovered the
