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22 Apr 2022
How to run further — eat berries and drink pink
Honeyberries, also known as haskap berries or by their botanical name Lonicera caerulea, are the little-known fruit of edible honeysuckle, which the Royal Horticultural Society says can be grown in the garden. They look and taste like blueberries. Adding them to your diet could provide a useful performance boost, as Glyn Howatson, professor in human and applied physiology at Northumbria University, showed in a recent study published in the journal Nutrients
The berries are rich in dietary anthocyanins and polyphenols — naturally occurring compounds that have been shown to provide antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and vascular benefits — and Howatson found that after consuming them daily for a week, recreational runners took longer to reach fatigue when running, compared with those who hadn’t eaten them. The berry eaters also saw their 5km time improve by an average 20 seconds. “We saw around a 2 per cent improvement in running time performance, which is not trivial,” Howatson says. “In other words, you run about 0.25km/h quicker over the same distance.”
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