Yet again, our top sexy foods deliver major brain-health benefits. Both celery and chili peppers, along with olive oil, rosemary and chamomille, according to Science Daily, and the very sensual beet, confirmed by other sources, are rich in luteolin.

The powerful luteolin appears to act to reduce age-related inflammation in the brain and related memory deficits by directly inhibiting the release of inflammatory molecules.

University of Illinois animal sciences professor Rodney Johnson, who led the new study said that during normal aging microglial cells become dysregulated and begin producing excessive levels of inflammatory cytokines.