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  1. Study Reveals Why it’s a Bad Idea To Make a Banana and Berries Smoothie

    Few things go together as well as bananas and smoothies. They provide the perfect texture and sweetness. But a study published in the journal Food & Function suggests we might need to…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #antioxidants #bananas #CookingTopics #flavanols #foodscience #health #nutrition #smoothies
    diningandcooking.com/2423299/s

  2. A randomized double-blind study of almost 600 older adults found that daily supplementation with 500 mg of cocoa flavanols for two years reduced a biomarker for aging-related inflammation by 8.4% per year. This work was part of a larger study that found that cocoa supplementation decreased cardiovascular disease mortality by 27%.

    Summary: sciencedaily.com/releases/2025

    Original paper (not open access): academic.oup.com/ageing/articl

    #Science #Health #Aging #Inflammation #Cocoa #Flavanols #CVD