Sharing the health benefits of plants 

You won’t find them listed on food nutrition labels yet bright red strawberries, deep purple blackberries and dark black olives all contain polyphenols. Polyphenols are a class of compounds found uniquely in plant food. You may have heard of some of them such as flavonoids or resveratrol. Those responsible for the colours red, orange, purple and blue are known as anthocyanins but, in fact, over 8,000 polyphenolic compounds have been identified [1] . Not only are polyphenols r