Eating more fruit, which is rich in vitamin E, can help protect your brain from Alzheimer’s, according to a new study.

The research, which was published in the Archives of Neurology, discovered that getting more vitamin E into your diet by eating fruit can offer protection from the disease.

In the study – called the Rotterdam Study – researchers from the Netherlands followed 5,395 healthy men and women, aged 55 and older, for 10 years to examine the link between vitamin E, vitamin C, beta carotene and flavonoids with the long-term risk of dementia.

Participants whose diets provided the most vitamin E were 26 per cent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s compared to those who consumed the least.

A previous study, carried out by researchers at Columbia University had similar findings.

It found that people who ate nutrients specifically selected for brain health such as certain fruits and vegetables had a 40 per cent lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease compared with those who did not top up their vitamin quotient with fruit.

“Diet is probably the easiest way to modify disease risk,” disease researcher Yian Gu said.

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