Thinking Nutrition
Thinking Nutrition
Dr Tim Crowe
How berries help build a better brain
13 minutes Posted Mar 16, 2026 at 2:00 pm.
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One of the best guides to food variety is colour. And for colour, there’s a group of natural plant chemicals called anthocyanins that are getting a lot of attention for their potential benefits on the brain. Anthocyanins are the pigments that give red, purple, and blue plants their rich colouring – they literally put the ‘blue’ into blueberries. A few years back on this podcast, I took you through the science of anthocyanins and brain health. In this episode, I’m revisiting that story with ne...