Quercetin food sources

• Elderberries
• Apples
• Peppers
• Red wine
• Dark cherries and berries (blueberries, bilberries, blackberries and others)
• Tomatoes
• Cruciferous veggies, including broccoli, cabbage and sprouts
• Leafy green veggies, including spinach, kale
• Citrus fruits

Title: Quercetin, not caffeine, is a major neuroprotective component in coffee.
Authors: Lee M, McGeer EG, McGeer PL.
Journal: Neurobiol Aging. 2016 Jul 5;46:113-123.
PMID:27479153

As we said above, for the longest time people have believed that caffeine was the active ingredient in the miraculous ability of coffee to reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease.

The researchers who published this report were particularly interested in the neuroprotective role for coffee in Parkinson’s disease and they decided to break coffee down into some of its basic components.

Specifically:

• Caffeine
• quercetin
• flavone
• Chlorogenic acids (CGAs)

They tested each of these coffee components on cells (grown in petri dishes) that had been exposed to a toxin, and then assessed cell…