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This study reveals that kiwifruit and vitamin C supplements can enhance mood and vitality, with kiwifruit showing stronger benefits, uncovered through innovative smartphone surveys.

original.newsbreak.com Vitamin C's Powers to Improve Your Mood: A New Study | Everything Science | NewsBreak Original

It's nice to find an easy, real answer that's as close as our next meal in a world where trying to be happy often leads us down the rabbit hole of self-help books and health trends. Think about what would happen if the key to a better mood and a more positive view on life was hidden in our fruit bow...

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Self reported surveys are not exactly the pinnacle of accurate science.
- They can be in the right context but not when they're comparing interventions which cannot be blinded. And where one of the interventions changes something else (in this case, the amount of other foods you eat if you have to eat two kiwi fruit instead of just popping a pill).

"Innovative smartphone surveys?"
Please.

This reads like an advert for kiwi.
This study looked at how daily doses of vitamin C—either from a 250 mg tablet or, more enticingly, two SunGoldTM kiwifruits—can affect our mood, energy, and overall sense of well-being.
- It basically is...
  A good practice is to check who funded the given study. Look under acknowledgements.
  In this case, it was Zespri International Ltd. "the world’s largest marketer of kiwifruit"
  The purported benefits claims are from self-assessment phone surveys..
  Definitively no suspicion of bias in this research...

I see Big Kiwi is at it again.

I consume a lot of vitamin c (it's sour and used in sour foods like candy, and I love sour stuff)... At what point does it affect your mood? 🤔
- When you're deficient in Vitamin C.

so kiwis are going on the shopping list. got it.

Eat fucking liver.
- I can't even be in the house if they're cooking liver. It smells disgusting to me.
  
  You get used to it. But anyway, you eat it for health.

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