Feathered Friends Favour Fruity Flavonoids

Fruit-eating birds actively select fruit with the highest concentrations of antioxidants - compounds that help them maintain a healthy immune system - ecologists have found. This is the first time that a group of antioxidants known as flavonoids have been found to boost the immune system in studies on living animals, as opposed to test-tube studies. The results are published online in the British Ecological Society’s Functional Ecology. Researchers from the University of Freiburg and the Max P

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