Cacao Beans Are Brain Food!
Did you know there are some foods that may help contribute to brain health and longevity? We came across this fabulous article about the top 5 foods for enhancing your mind and body.
In addition to cacao beans making the list, there was (in no particular order) wild salmon, matcha tea, the acai berry and blueberries and coffee beans. Any surprises? It’s important that you seek out the specific types of food recommend in this article. For example, any old salmon will not have the same nutrients as wild salmon.
None of these things (no, not even raw chocolate) is a wonder food, but you’re well-served incorporating these foods into your diet.
Here’s what the study has to say about our friend, the cacao bean:
“What’s healthy is the cacao bean, minimally processed. This amazing, hedonistic bean is one of the world’s longest-revered foods (think ‘time of the Aztecs’ old) and has in recent years been shown to be a veritable powerhouse of cognitive enhancement, mood and bliss-enhancement (thanks in part to the Theobromine in cacao), antioxidants, flavonoids, catechins and many other brain & body-enhancing elements. In fact, chocolate has been very recently cited by some top health professionals and researchers to be THE single most exciting health food, and as more research continues to pour in, the more true this appears to be.”
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