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Can flavonoids help fend off forgetfulness? - Coggle Diagram
Can flavonoids help fend off forgetfulness?
The colors of the fuits and vegetables come from flavonoids 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣
Powerful plant chemicals (phytochemicals)
Scientists evaluated how often participants ate flavonoid-rich foods and whether they reported cognition changes in their 70s
Remembering recent events or a short list of items
Remembering things from one second to the next ⏱
Understanding instructions
Following a group conversation or TV plot
finding their way around familiar streets
Researchers calculated participants’ intake of flavonoids
Flavan-3-ol monomers
Catechins in strawberries
Flavones
Luteolin in celery
Superstar ✨
Polymers
Theaflavins in black tea
Flavanones
Naringenin in grapefruit
Superstar ✨
Flavonols
Quercetin in onion
Anthocyanins
Cyanidin in blackberries
Superstar ✨
People with the highest daily flavonoid intakes were less likely to report trouble with memory and thinking
Consumption of flavonoid-rich foods seemed to improve the protective effect on the brain
Flavonoids are powerful antioxidants
May fight brain inflammation
Reduce the accumulation of amyloid (Alzheimer hallmark)
Keeping the blood vessels healthy
Increase repair brain cells
Promote new brain cell growth
Enlarge the size of hippocampus
Fighting tumor growth
Flavonoid goals
Flavonoid intakes ranged from 150 milligrams (mg) per day to 620 mg per day
Five-a-day fruit and vegetable goal
Eating the rainbow
