How berries help build a better brain

About this episode

This episode explores the role of anthocyanins in brain health and the importance of food variety through color.

One of the best guides to food variety is colour. And for colour, there’s a group of natural plant chemicals called anthocyanins that are getting a lot of attention for their potential benefits on the brain. Anthocyanins are the pigments that give red, purple, and blue plants their rich colouring – they literally put the ‘blue’ into blueberries. A few years back on this podcast, I took you through the science of anthocyanins and brain health. In this episode, I’m revisiting that story with ne...

Topics covered

• berries
• brain health
• anthocyanins
• food variety
• nutrition

Keywords

• natural plant chemicals
• red plants
• purple plants
• blue plants

Mentioned in this episode

Products: blueberries

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