Top 5 Brain Foods
May 6, 2007 by ruth
Filed under Food & Nutrition
The Brain Ready Blog focuses on activities and other means to help keep you mentally fit as you age. Here’s an interesting post that I thought might interest you readers of Eating Fabulous: The Top 5 Brain Health Foods.
How did we pick? Our list is based a variety of factors, ranging from overall proven health benefits (through multiple peer-reviewed, valid scientific studies from around the world over many years), our own experience here at BrainReady using these foods regularly, general reports from consumers of these foods over the years, proven safety and lack of contraindications from these foods, and general availability/ease of incorporation of these foods by the most people in most countries.
And their Top 5 (not in order of priority):
1. Wild Salmon
2. Cacao Beans
3. Matcha (Tencha-grade green tea powder)
4. Acai berries & Blueberries (tie)
5. Coffee beans
Except for #3, I pretty much have covered the health benefits of these food items here at Eating Fabulous, although I have written a fair number of entries on green tea.
Go on, hope over to Brain Ready, and be sure to read until the last paragraphs. I can only agree when they mentioned that there is no such thing as anti-aging elixir. For functional foods to work, they have to be consumed regularly and consistently over a long period of time, and should be part of a healthy diet.


































Thanks for the handy summary, and the link to Brain Ready. I’ll need a little time to go through the original article. They point out the difference between chocolate and cocoa beans for example. The less processing the better, so I guess a Mars bar a day won’t keep the doctor away!
Allergy Guy: It’s not the processing, but the actual cacao content, which matters. A lot of chocolate bars contain too much sugar and milk. A 70% dark chocolate bar would be your best bet.