Baking Blueberries Changes Their Health Content

For the high polyphenol content, blueberries are called a "superfood", but when served as warm, gooey pie filling or when lending bursts of sweet flavor to a muffin, their "super" health benefits change. Scientists studied how cooking and baking affect the increasingly popular fruit's polyphenols and reported their mixed findings - levels of some of these substances rose while others fell - in ACS' iJournal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry/i. Ana ...