Sweet cherries during early and late pregnancy: useful properties

Cherry is a delicious and delicate berry that is consumed in the form of juices, compotes, jams and fresh berries even in baby food. But many women ask the question: Will the sweet cherry harm during pregnancy? After all, in this unusual life period, you should carefully choose food, including berries and fruits. We decided to thoroughly understand this issue.

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Benefits of sweet cherries during pregnancy

Cherry - a low-calorie product: 100 g contain only 50 kcal.

Cherries are the richest storehouse of vitamins and other useful substances: fruits contain 11% of various sugars, more than 1% of organic acids, carotene, ascorbic acid, B vitamins, PP, P, iron (about 1.5 mg per 100 g).

Medicinal properties of sweet cherries are used for atony of the intestine: a gentle fiber of berries gently stimulates digestion, relieving constipation, colitis, and other pathologies associated with weak peristalsis. In this case, dried berries will help with diarrhea, and fresh - with intestinal atony and constipation.

Improving the condition of patients with hypochromic anemia is associated with a high content of iron and vitamins in the cherry.

Delicious fruit is used for gastritis with high acidity, with gastric ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer, with diseases of the esophagus. Because of the low content of organic acids after the consumption of sweet cherries can not develop heartburn.

Regular intake of cherries in the food ensures the delivery of oxygen to the tissues. Potassium salts stabilize cardiac activity, and calcium and phosphorus salts participate in laying the musculoskeletal system of the unborn child.

Cherry is a wonderful soothing remedy for pregnant women, which strengthens the nervous system and improves mood. If a woman has caught a cold, you can cook the mors from the sweet cherry, or even tea from her leaves: a large number of beneficial substances will strengthen the immune system and help to quickly defeat the cold. Cherry fruit will help to eliminate nausea in toxicosis, to cough up vomiting.

Let's sum up the useful properties of cherry:

• berries contain many useful substances, including those that prolong the youth of our body and restore damaged cells;
• dishes from sweet cherry contribute to the purification of the body of toxic substances and salt deposits, purify the urinary system, which helps to eliminate swelling and overall improvement of the condition;
• cherry fruits contain substances that soothe the nervous system and provide a good mood for the whole day. Morning breakfast with cherry will help to charge positive energy and resist stressful situations throughout the day;
• use berries and for external use in the form of masks. Regular cherry masks smooth the skin, make it more elastic and soft;
• fruits cherries strengthen the vessels, so they serve as a good prevention of varicose veins and heart disease;
• cherry will help to establish digestion and metabolic processes in the body.

Harmful cherries during pregnancy

However, can a cherry cause harm to the body of a pregnant woman? Sometimes this can happen if you do not follow the following rules:

• cherry berries are not recommended for use with spasms of the intestine and diabetes, as it may aggravate the disease;
• Do not eat berries directly after taking another food. Cherry is an independent product, which must be consumed 30-60 minutes after the main meal;
• if your body is prone to allergic reactions, eating cherries should be done with great care, so as not to cause allergies;
• the use of a large number of berries in one sitting can cause bloating. Needless to say, this condition is extremely uncomfortable during pregnancy. For this reason, it is advised not to eat more than 0,4-0,5 kg of sweet cherry;
• eat only that sweet cherry, as you are sure. Therefore, it is not recommended to buy berries not in season: most likely, such fruits contain many chemicals that will not benefit either you or your baby. By the way, do not forget to rinse the cherry well before use: sometimes the trees are sprayed with special substances so that the worms do not start worms. The poison can appear on the surface of the fruit, which our body does not need.

Remember one more caution: do not store berries for a long time, especially if you have already washed them. Eat them immediately. Unwashed fruits can be stored in a refrigerator for 1-2 weeks depending on the variety.

Recipe for sweet cherry in pregnancy

Most often, the sweet cherry is used fresh. However, you can also prepare a lot of delicious dishes from berries. Help yourself!

1. Cocktail with cherries. You will need: 150 ml of milk, 100 g of fresh cottage cheese, 1 tablespoon of honey, 5-6 berries of sweet cherry (to your taste). Cottage cheese, honey and milk beat in a blender for 2 minutes. Half of the resulting mixture is poured into a glass. The rest of the cocktail is again whipped in a blender, adding berries of sweet cherry. Pour over the white mixture. You can drink! Fast and tasty. If desired, you can add cinnamon, vanilla sugar or lemon zest to the cocktail.
2. Sweet cherry. We will need: 2 pcs. Eggs, 2 glasses of sugar, 200 ml of yogurt or kefir, a teaspoon of soda, a bag of vanilla sugar, 1.5 cups of flour, 300 g of sweet cherry, half a teaspoon of salt and a little sugar powder. Sugar is beaten with eggs, we add yoghurt and hydrated soda, salt, vanilla sugar, mix. Then add a little flour. Dough for consistency should resemble thick sour cream. Meanwhile, the form is lubricated with oil, we spread the dough, the cherry (without pits) is evenly distributed on the surface of the future pie. We place it in a preheated oven to 200 ° C. The cooking time depends on your oven: it usually takes 20-25 minutes. Check whether the charlotte is ready for use with a match or toothpick. We remove the prepared charlotte from the oven, cool it, put it on a nice plate and sprinkle it with sugar powder.
3. Berry-fruit dessert. You will need: 100 g of cherry without a stone, 100 g of blueberry, 100 g of apricot pulp, 200 g of cottage cheese, 2 teaspoons of gelatin, honey or sugar. Gelatine soaked in 60 ml of water. Berries and apricots are beaten in a blender separately from each other, in each part add 1/3 of cottage cheese and honey to your taste. Divorced gelatin is heated in a water bath or in a microwave before dissolving, we cool for several minutes and evenly add to each part of the ground mass. Stirring. We put all three mixtures for a short while in the refrigerator. As soon as we see that the mass begins to solidify, we shift it into special vases by layers and again place it in the refrigerator for several hours until it completely solidifies. Bon Appetit!

Sweet cherries during pregnancy are not only delicious, but also useful. But remember that everything is good in moderation. Use the sweet cherry, but do not forget about other equally useful berries and fruits. Be healthy!