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Eating Your Five-a-Day Won’t Get You the Compound Your Heart Wants Most

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You did everything right. The apple at your desk, the side salad, the bowl of grapes after dinner, all five portions ticked off before the day was out. And yet the compound most likely to keep your heart beating for longer may have barely registered in your body at all. That, at least, is the uncomfortable message buried in a large new analysis of what more than 30,000 people actually ate.
The compounds in question are flavanols, a family of plant chemicals found in tea, cocoa, berries, apples a

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