Anthocyanins and Improved Domain-Specific Cognition

• Polyphenol consumption and neurodegeneration risk: a systematic meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials bridging nutrition and cognitive health.

  • 2026
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 849
  • Food & function 17(3)
  • • Xiaomei Wang
    • Jiao Yang
    • Jiayuan Zhang
    • Gaihong Yu
    • Jian Zhu
    • Yingli Nie

  • PubMed: 41524705
  • DOI: 10.1039/d5fo05135e

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  • Improved Domain-Specific Cognition

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  • Clinical

  Anthocyanidins, phenolic acids, and lignans did not significantly affect cognitive outcomes (MMSE or ADCS-Cog)

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No