The following foods all contain active ingredients that help protect or improve the brain. They include vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, flavonoids, polyphenols, fatty acids, and other ingredients found in food.

 

Asparagus: Prevents cognitive impairment and wards off depression

 

Avocado: Improves memory and cognitive skills

 

Beans: Normalizes cognitive abilities

 

Beets: Stimulates blood to the brain

 

Berries: Improves long and short-term memory

 

Black Rice: Slows mental deterioration

 

Broccoli: Improves memory

 

Cabbage: Protects the brain from degradation

 

Carrots: Improves memory

 

Chard: Protects the brain from degradation

 

Coffee: Improves cognitive performance

 

Eggs: Improves memory and cognitive abilities

 

Grapes: Enhances memory skills

 

Green Leaf Vegetables: Improves verbal skills

 

Green Tea: Improves cognitive performance

 

Hemp Seeds: Prevents cognitive decay

 

Lentils: Prevents cognitive impairment

 

Oily Fish: Prevents cognitive decay

 

Oranges: Prevents cognitive decline

 

Pumpkin Seeds: Enhances nerve signaling

 

Spinach: Improves mental capacity and memory

 

Sunflower Seeds: Prevents cognitive decline, enhances memory

 

Tomatoes: Prevents cognitive decline

 

Turmeric/Curcumin: Slows cognitive decline (NOTE: See our page dedicated to the wonders of Tumeric/Curcumin