Assessment
Get More Flavonoids With Fruit
Start with adding apples, berries and oranges to your diet
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Quick Win
Flavonoids in fruit may help reduce risk for cognitive decline.
Try This Today
- Wherever you get your fruit, pick up enough for at least two servings a day to last you a week.
- Try making a strawberry-almond smoothie or baked pears with marsala-honey syrup.
- Eating your fruits fresh is best.
- Want to dig a little deeper on this topic? For more information on flavonoids, visit here.
Why
Consuming lots of flavonoid-rich fruits is important for maintaining cognitive function. In a study following more than 77,000 people over more than 20 years and published in 2021 in Neurology, eating many flavonoid-rich foods — such as strawberries, oranges, grapefruits, citrus juices, apples/pears, celery, peppers and bananas — was significantly associated with lower cognitive decline, regardless of total calories eaten and other nondietary factors.
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