COLOUR DIET BENEFITS ON BRAIN FUNCTION:
Numerous studies have described that anthocyanin, flavonoids, flavones-rich foods may play a crucial role in the prevention and treatment of different pathological conditions, which have encouraged their consumption around the world.
- Anthocyanins exhibit a significant neuroprotective role, mainly due to their well-recognized antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
- The neuroprotective actions of dietary flavonoids involve a number of effects within the brain, including a potential to protect neurons against injury induced by neurotoxins, an ability to suppress neuroinflammation, and the potential to promote memory, learning and cognitive function.
- Flavones and flavonols are molecules present in most plants that are an important component of some human diets. Epidemiological evidence shows the beneficial effects of these molecules in cardiovascular and neuropathological diseases.
- Experimental evidence in vitro and in vivo has confirmed the neuroprotective effects in neurons in culture against oxidative insults and in models of focal ischemia and experimental parkinsonism.