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What's your 'go to' healthy revision snack? :bl:

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Reply 1

Aph

No mention of flavonoids?

Reply 2

Dinaa

Dates with Milk is love :love:

Ginkgo Biloba!!

Bananas.

They help me focus during revision and I usually drink water.

Reply 5

Sanctimonious

Eating any food with a distinct taste or smell whilst revising a specific topic can actually help you recall things in the exam if you eat the same food. A lot of people use mints whilst studying a specific topic because they associate the taste or smell with that and are therefore more able to recall information from memory at that time. Others use perfumes and other scents. Its really strange and I don't know why or how it works but it does. It's all about stimulating the brain and apparently scent can be a powerful memory trigger.

https://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6060248

Reply 6

Ichigo S-G

Original post by Sanctimonious

Eating any food with a distinct taste or smell whilst revising a specific topic can actually help you recall things in the exam. It's all about stimulating the brain and apparently scent can be a powerful memory trigger.

https://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6060248

Definitely going to apply this!! With water, that's another 5% boost for brain power!

Thanks

The artistic alliteration was amusing. Yup, it was spotted :biggrin:

Reply 9

AlesanaWill

Original post by James A

Bananas.

They help me focus during revision and I usually drink water.

I second this. I eat bananas all the time but especially during exams - give me an energy boost and healthy too.

More than anything, I try to make sure I eat decent dinners when I'm revising. It's tempting to microwave something up quickly, but I think taking the time to cook a proper meal with vegetables gives more benefits than an extra half hour revising.

Cool! I will try it)

[QUOTE="Sanctimonious;55506397"]Eating any food with a distinct taste or smell whilst revising a specific topic can actually help you recall things in the exam if you eat the same food. A lot of people use mints whilst studying a specific topic because they associate the taste or smell with that and are therefore more able to recall information from memory at that time. Others use perfumes and other scents. Its really strange and I don't know why or how it works but it does. It's all about stimulating the brain and apparently scent can be a powerful memory trigger.

https://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6060248[/QUOTE]

For some reason, smell is the strongest sense when it comes to memory recall; it is easier to remember something when you smell a familiar smell than with any other sense...

Reply 12

Kyx

Last year my physic teacher told me a tip: Chew chewing gum. It makes the blood rush to the area around your brain and helps you to think better. :wink:

Reply 13

Keano92

Crispy m&m's, can't beat them!

Reply 14

hellodave5

Original post by Kyx

Last year my physic teacher told me a tip: Chew chewing gum. It makes the blood rush to the area around your brain and helps you to think better. :wink:

Very interesting!
Though, maybe through other ways rather than increasing blood flow, as not sure is possible in that way.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20132649

Thanks @hellodave5 !

i try not to eat that much because i know if i do i will eat and eat and eat but i do like to drink hot water with sliced lemon in it, its really healthy and every time i want a snack i just make myself one and sip it with revision

Reply 17

Nettled

Are bananas really that good for you? Might go grab myself one now!

I tell my mum to make oily fish during exam season although I hate the smell of mackerel.