How Much Fruit Does Your Brain Actually Need?

What the research tells us about brain health, mood, and the fruits most worth prioritising

I used to be a better fruit buyer than a fruit eater.

I’d come back from the shops with a beautiful bowl of nectarines, berries, and bananas, arrange it on the worktop like a still life, and feel virtuous for about three days. By day ten, the bananas had gone black, the nectarines were weeping, and I was scraping the lot onto the compost heap, muttering …