Glossy full of berries ready to be the Foundation of your diet and store for the winter. There are many edible types of cherry, and we rejoice in this diversity, because this berry is very useful. You should get to know it better.
For cooking we use not only the fruit of the cherry blossom tree, but its leaves, twigs, bark and roots. They give an incomparable flavor and bring a lot of benefits.
Cherries are rich in substances that have a bactericidal effect. Anthocyanin is a red pigment is well absorbed by the human body and is a powerful antioxidant. Coumarin, which is a lot in juicy pulp of the berries, thins the blood, which is invaluable in the treatment of arterial atherosclerosis, anemia. In the cherry there is lot of magnesium, iron, cobalt, vitamins B1, B6, C.
Cherry greatly influences the bowel and stimulates the removal of toxins. Cherry juice stimulates the appetite, quenches thirst, useful in arthritis, neurological disorders, wet cough.
In cherries there is ellagic acid that can stop the growth of cancer cells as well as anthocyanidins, which reduce the content of uric acid in the body.
Cherry has a positive effect on the entire cardiovascular system, tannins ascorbic acid and pigments, strengthen capillaries, improve their tone and reduce blood pressure, reduced risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Who should not eat cherries
Should remove the cherries from the diet:
- those who have increased acidity of the stomach,
- people with diabetes,
- suffering from ulcer,
- people with obesity
- people with chronic processes in the lungs
Broken bone cherries contain the poison, although in small amounts they are useful against kidney stones and gout.
Cherry in cooking
Cherries are great for making compotes, jellies, jams, juices, fruit drinks, syrups, sauces, cordials and fruit drinks. Cherry is used in cooking of cakes and meat dishes. Cherry leaves are used in pickling vegetables. Cherry may be perfectly frozen and preserved, losing the minimum vitamin content. These beneficial berries are part of medications medicine.
Cherry in cosmetics
Cherry is used to flavor many creams, shampoos and other cosmetics. Cherries are being used to make a mask for the skin – it revitalizes, refreshes, eliminates acne, tightens pores.
What to cook with cherries
In season, we eat cherries fresh and use in cooking. For example, dumplings with cherries – a real culinary symbol of summer as well as cherry pie. Certainly we apply it to meat in the form of the cherry sauce. And for dessert, rice pudding with cherries or cherry strudel.
More about cherry benefits and harms read in our big article.