How to improve eye health: Forget carrots — eating two handfuls of pistachios a day could boost your vision

Joe Rossiter
Daily Mail
How to get your kids to eat a range of nutritious produce.

Forget carrots — eating just two handfuls of pistachios a day could boost your vision in old age, a study has found.

Scientists say adding two ounces (57g) of the nut to your diet can “significantly” improve eye health as it raises our lutein levels.

The antioxidant — also found in lower doses in carrots, kale and spinach — protects the retina against harmful blue light, acting “like sunglasses for your eyes”, the study in the Journal of Nutrition found.

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Researchers at Tufts University, US, monitored 36 people aged 40-70, half of whom had pistachios daily for 12 weeks.

They showed big gains in macular pigment density, which protects eyes from UV rays, compared with the non-nut-eaters.

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