Corn Is Brain Food
Feasting on a nice stew of corn and tomatoes warms you up, and it may boost your brain as you age.
In French research, older people with the lowest mental functioning were nearly twice as apt to have low blood levels of antioxidants lycopene and zeaxanthin as those with better functioning. Lycopene is in canned tomatoes and tomato sauce; corn has zeaxanthin.
Yellow corn has more antioxidants than white.
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