Not only that, but they taste delicious. Eating spinach, kale and other green leafy vegetables at least twice a week is highly recommended. But do consider consuming half a cup or more of blueberries every day in addition to all the vegetables and fruit you already consume. Because adding blueberries to your daily diet could double your antioxidant intake from food.
Frozen blueberries are fine when fresh ones are out of season.
Wild blueberries may be more potent than the larger, sweeter cultivated blueberries, but even the cultivated blueberries apparently can pack a ferocious punch against free radicals. It started with the scientists at the USDA Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston. They have discovered that the blueberry comes close to being a miracle food, considering the important health and anti-aging benefits it offers. Dr. James Joseph, a senior scientist at Tufts, admits that he started adding blueberries to his morning protein shake after he saw the results of his own research. Scientists think that the antioxidant and general anti-aging benefits of the Vaccinium species berries come from the compounds that give them their deep pigmentation.