The report by researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Yale University, published in Britain's Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, said women call on their navigational skills when there is food to be found -- a skill probably honed on the African savanna, The Telegraph reported Wednesday.

Experiments conducted at a large farmers’ market suggest the more nutritious the food, the more accurately it is remembered.

Researchers said memory for high-calorie foods such as honey and avocados was as much as four times as accurate as memory for low-calorie foods such as cucumber and lettuce, the British newspaper reported.