From The Mirror comes this list of 10 foods you MUST eat to fight the combat of wrinkles:
Spinach
For skin that looks 38 per cent younger in just a few weeks, add dark green leafy veg such as spinach, cabbage and kale to your diet every day.
Packed with an antioxidant called lutein. You need 10mg to get results - which equates to about 4oz of spinach or 2oz of kale. Recent French research suggests this will boost skin hydration and elasticity, fighting wrinkles.
Beans
Help your body produce a vital anti-ageing substance called hyaluronic acid. Aim for at least two tablespoons of beans each day - broad or butter beans make a great substitute for mashed potatoes.
Goji Berries
Skin-guru Dr Howard Murad claims they’re the most "nutritionally dense food on the planet". They have nearly 500 times more vitamin C per ounce than oranges - and vitamin C helps you make the collagen that keeps skin firm. They also contain linoleic acid, an essential fat that plumps skin up, making it look and feel younger. Available at Holland & Barrett, they’re most commonly used in smoothies or sprinkled over cereal but also good in salads.
Turkey
Contains a vital skin-friendly protein called carnosine that slows down a process in the skin called cross-linking. When this happens, fibres grow into the collagen of the skin making it stiff and inelastic. This then stops it snapping back when you do things like smile, laugh or frown - and this is what causes smile lines or crows feet. Eat turkey two to three times a week.
Flaxseed
You can gulp this oil down by the spoonful, mix it into smoothies or add it to balsamic vinegar and use it as a salad dressing, but try to have a tablespoon each day.
"Flaxseed is a major source of the healthy fat omega-3," says Suzi Grant, author of Alternative Aging "Skin cells are surrounded by a fatty layer made from this and other fats so, the higher your omega-3 intake the stronger that layer is, and the plumper your skin cells are - which helps disguise lines and wrinkles."
Prunes
One of the biggest causes of skin ageing is attack by substances called free radicals, that break down healthy skin tissues. Nutrients called antioxidants help neutralise these free radicals before they can do any damage - and prunes are the fruit containing the absolute highest level of antioxidants. Blueberries are a close second. Eat five to six prunes, or a small punnet of blueberries, daily to get a great health boost.
Beetroot
This is the top choice of independent nutritionist Carrie Ruxton: "It’s not only a great source of antioxidants, all purple foods contain pigments called anthocyanins that help support collagen production in the skin," she says.
Olives
Australian researchers recently discovered the more olive oil people had, the less wrinkled their skin looked. A healthy fat, oleic acid actually soaks through the membranes of skin cells plumping them up, which then makes fine lines and wrinkles less noticeable.
Chocolate
Chocolate really is good for your skin. In studies in Germany, it was found that after drinking a cocoa-packed drink, blood flow to the skin was boosted (meaning it gets higher levels of nutrients and moisture). It also seemed to be more protected against UV damage - the number-one skin ager. Only dark chocolate contains enough antioxidants to have effects, though.
Red Peppers
Sweet potatoes, carrots and more. Research from Dr Ronald Watson at the University of Arizona has found that the antioxidants in red, yellow and orange foods build up under the skin creating extra UV protection. "The effect is so strong that eating six portions a day for about two months will build a natural barrier equivalent to a factor four sunscreen," says Dr Watson.
In A Pill?
There are numerous skin-boosting supplements available. But are they worth the money or can you get everything you need from your diet?"Supplements are worth considering for skin-boosting nutrients with limited numbers of natural sources, for example evening primrose oil", says Carrie Ruxton.
"Antioxidants such as carotenes, quercetin, vitamins C and E, it’s better to eat the natural foods. A number of studies on single antioxidants given as pills have found no benefit to health. This is probably because the antioxidants work together or with other, as yet unidentified, phytonutrients."
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