Adding cranberries to your diet, particularly in the middle age, could help improve memory and brain function, and lower 'bad' cholesterol, according to new research that highlights the neuroprotective potential of cranberries.

The results, published in the Frontiers in Nutrition, showed that consuming cranberries significantly improved the participants' - 50 to 80-year-olds - memory of everyday events (visual episodic memory), neural functioning, and delivery of blood to the brain (brain perfusion).