Vegetarians, vegans and pescatarians have a better memory than meat-eaters, study claims

Adults were given a list of words to memorise and then tested on how many they could recall

People who consumed a large amount of meat and fish ranked lowest for memory recall (PA)

Opting for a vegetarian, vegan or pescatarian diet could boost your memory, a new study has claimed.

“Adherence to a plant-based rather than a meat-based diet results in improved short-term verbal memory,” wrote Pinar Sengul, who led the study at Birbeck University of London.

A group of 62 adults, aged 40 and above, were divided up by their diet; vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, meat-eaters with low fish or meat consumption, and meat-eaters with high meat or fish consumption.