The list of the most useful berries is made
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Garden and forest berries are a real treasure of vitamins and antioxidants that slow the aging process of the human body. That is why they must necessarily be present in the diet, helping to maintain skin tone and health, support the work of the heart muscle and strengthen the walls of blood vessels. For women, which with age slows down the production of estrogens, which increase the resistance of the body to harmful effects, they are particularly useful.
Any berries benefit your health - dried, frozen, dried. But doctors are especially recommended for eating fresh berries, and, grown in the region where you live. The first strawberry appears on the beds. These fragrant berries are not only very tasty - useful substances contained in them, stimulate the work of brain cells. Strawberry is a natural antidepressant that helps you to remove stress and irritation, to put your nerves in order.
The nearest "relative" of the strawberry is wild strawberry. That's really who can be called a pantry of minerals! In small berries, not only are many vitamins and folic acid, they are also rich in iron, copper, cobalt, calcium and phosphorus. Strawberries are the champion in potassium content. Fiber-rich berries have a mild cleansing effect on motor and secretory functions, contribute to the excretion of harmful cholesterol.
On the beneficial properties of another forest beauty - blueberries, many have heard. Those who spend a lot of time at the computer, straining their eyes, must necessarily eat fresh or dried blueberries, which stimulates metabolic processes in the retina of the eye. Blueberry berries have an astringent effect, their jam is an excellent remedy for colds.
Summer in the gardens ripens raspberry - a berry, which many remember from childhood. Jam from it is also a traditional way to treat colds, as berries have a diaphoretic and antipyretic effect. They are rich in salicylic acid, vitamins and minerals. The increased content of vitamin C made raspberries the recommended remedy for scurvy along with lemon.
Currant, red and black, is an alternative means for maintaining the tone and strengthening immunity. The red contains sugar and pectins, tannins, these berries will help you get rid of bouts of nausea. In the black currant contains a complex of multivitamins, tartaric and succinic acids, iodine.
Probably, there was no such summer, when you did not eat at least a slice of watermelon. This is also a berry. It perfectly quenches thirst and promotes the purification of the kidneys, removes cholesterol from the body. Folic acid, vitamins and minerals are all useful in it.