The popularity of our dog diminished when he dug up my flower planter last week. The planter was beautiful. But there was no need to look for summer-flower replacements. Whether I like it or not, the fall colors are upon me, deep green, red, orange, yellow of mums, autumn trees and sunsets that shout, “Gorgeous!” in the late summer Nebraska air.
It’s as though the artist changed pallets. You see it everywhere, even at farmers’ markets where late summer produce is abundant. That color, my friends, is one of the ways you recognize polyphenols in your farmer’s market bag this fall. Why should we care about polyphenols?
Polyphenols are plant compounds that contain one or more phenolic rings. In plants, polyphenols promote health and provide disease protection. They act similarly in our body when…