Cocoa and Improved Flanker Task Accuracy

• Acute effects of cocoa flavanols on cognitive control and response inhibition.

  • 2025-11
  • RCT
  • Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) 139
  • • Ahmet Altinok
    • Monica Moruzzi
    • Elkan G Akyürek

  • PubMed: 40614481
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2025.112860

  8 Insights on

  • Improved Flanker Task Accuracy

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  Results revealed that neither dose of CF acutely improved accuracy, interference scores, errors, or response times in these three tasks.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  low-dose 415 mg CF, medium-dose 623 mg CF