Table 1 Cognitive domain classification under each intervention type.

From: Effects of chronic consumption of specific fruit (berries, cherries and citrus) on cognitive health: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Cognitive domain

Intervention type

Study

Cognitive task entered into meta-analysis

Unit of test scores

Results of the chosen taska

Memory

grape juice

Lamport, et al., [43] (UK)

Visual verbal learning test-Immediate recall

accuracy/%

No changes

cranberry juice

Crews et al., [44] (US)

Delayed free recall

correct numbers

No changes

blueberry powder

Miller, et al., [48] (US)

CVLT list A 1 free recall

correct numbers

No changes

Executive function

grape juice

Lamport, et al., [43] (UK)

RVIP correct

correct responses

No changes

cranberry juice

Crews et al., [44] (US)

Digit symbol

raw score

No changes

blueberry powder

Boespflug et al., [46] (US)

2-Back task

arc

No changes

blueberry juice

Bowtell et al., [45] (UK)

2-Back task

arc

No changes

cherry juice

Chai, S. C., et al., [41] (US)

Digit span

score

No changes

Kent, et al., [50] (Australia)

Digit span backwards task (short-term memory)

score

Final score between groups (P = 0.02)

Aronia melanocarpa extract powder

Ahles et al., [49] (Netherlands)

The number cross-out task

Correct responses

No changes

Psychomotor speed

grape juice

Lamport, et al., [43] (UK)

RVIP reaction time

ms

No changes

cranberry juice

Crews et al., [44] (US)

Trial making task reaction time

total time

No changes

frozen blueberry

Schrager, et al., [47] (US)

Simple reaction time

ms

No changes

blueberry powder

Boespflug et al., [46] (US)

2-Back task reaction time ms

ms

No changes

cherry juice

Kent, et al., [50] (Australia)

Trail making task reaction time

ms

No changes

Chai. S. C., et al., [41] (US)

RTI reaction time

ms

No changes

MMSE

grape powder

Calapai, et al., [51] (Italy)

MMSE

score

Change score between groups (P < 0.01)

Lee, et al., [52] (US)

MMSE

score

No changes

  1. arc Arcsine transformation of the square root of the proportion of correct answers, CVLT California Verbal Learning Test, RVIP Rapid Visual Information Processing, RTI Reaction Time Test, MMSE Mini Mental State Examination.
  2. aAll summarised results were compared to the control group.