For a long time man has been using the gifts of nature.Nature gives us all the best and useful that it has - fresh fruits, vegetables and berries, which, in turn, are the most valuable products containing vitamins, minerals, useful amino acids.
Today we will talk about the cranberry-berries, whichis a valuable food and medical product. Special distribution of cranberries was received in North America - there is no Thanksgiving without it. This "festive" berry has a bright color and a very sour taste, in addition, it is found a large number of vitamins, which are powerful antioxidants.
Cranberry, whose beneficial properties are sufficientare diverse, contains 4-5% of sugars (the main ones being fructose and glucose), and a fairly extensive list of organic acids, including citric, malic and benzoic. It is the benzoic acid, which is a natural preservative, that the cranberries are obliged to keep for a long time without any processing, just filled with boiled water. In addition, the list of "cranberries: useful properties" should include a large number of micro- and macronutrients, tannic and pectin substances.
Like other sour natural gifts, cranberry berriesmuch more effectively act on the body than vitamin complexes in tablets. This is because the vitamins, phytonutrients and other nutrients contained in cranberry are not lost, as happens during processing. In addition, berries, fruits and vegetables, and cranberry including nutrients in balance is just perfect, so they have a much greater digestibility.
If we talk about the positive from a medical point of viewthe properties of berries, it is worth mentioning that the treatment of cranberries is relevant in those cases when it is necessary to lower the temperature, also berry is used as an antiscorbutic and cooling agent, a means for enhancing the action of sulfonamides and antibiotics.
Also cranberries, whose beneficial properties are notend up in the above, improves digestion and appetite, increases the production of pancreatic and gastric juice, and provides irreplaceable help in the treatment of gastritis characterized by a low acidity of gastric juice, with inflammation of the pancreas. To positive properties is also worth attributing bactericidal and diuretic effects that berries have, a benefit in pyelonephritis. Cranberry, seasoned with honey, is widely used in the treatment of rheumatism, respiratory diseases, tonsillitis.
Berries that have been heat treated alsoretains its useful properties. So, for example, syrups and fruit drinks from it are used as an anti-febrifuge, in inflammatory processes, avitomanosis, for quenching thirst and lowering the temperature. A cranberry juice and cranberry jam should be consumed in the winter-spring period, as they (like most products from this berry) prevent beriberi and improve immunity.
Fresh cranberries can be purchased in someregions for almost the entire year. The most valuable is the cranberry grown with the use of organic methods. Useful properties in such a berry are expressed more strongly than in any other.
Consume cranberries fresh without any additives -not the most enjoyable occupation, as it differs strong enough sour taste. However, you can add berries to desserts, make mousses and sauces from it. Tasty is also just cranberry with sugar. Useful properties of this berries from additives or processing are practically not lost.
Cranberry is considered to be one of the most valuablegifts of nature. Helping with many diseases, this berry becomes almost indispensable in folk medicine, as well as in the manufacture of various medications. A fresh product is always more useful than a processed product. Therefore, it is better not to buy cranberry extracts or extracts, and to consume fresh cranberries is a real storehouse of useful substances.
