Top 5 Brain Foods

May 6, 2007 by ruth  
Filed under Food & Nutrition

Matcha Tea Kit with 20g Matcha Powdered Green Tea, Bamboo Whisk, Bamboo Tea Scoop and SifterThe 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.

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3 Responses to “Top 5 Brain Foods”
  1. Allergy Guy says:

    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!

  2. ruth says:

    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.

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