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Great Brain Food: Red Grapes

The pint-size fruit packs stroke protection

by Gloria McVeigh

Make grapes a regular part of your diet, and you may survive a stroke

with more brain cells intact. University of Missouri researchers who

studied animal strokes that mimicked those in humans found that strokes

produced unstable molecules that slowly decimated brain cells over the

next few days.

A grape polyphenol called resveratrol absorbed some of the

stroke-generated molecules, preventing part of the subsequent brain

damage. Like red wine, scarlet grapes are high in resveratrol, which is

concentrated in their seeds and skin.