Healing and sweeter fruit than raspberries, nature has not created poured juice, tender fruit knowingly protected bushes with sharp thorns. Gather a handful of berries, do not scratch, is a difficult matter. Raspberry varieties are innumerable, derive their breeders from different countries with the most unusual properties. The main application raspberries found in cooking and traditional medicine, in cosmetics and perfumery industry. The most important property of raspberries for slim waists - it has a minimum of calories and absolutely no cholesterol Cholesterin . This is one of the oldest tools in the world to preserve the beauty and youth.

Sweet berry

Raspberry Common - deciduous shrub rose family, whose fruit, hairy drupes fused to the receptacle in a large fruit. Most often, raspberries are red, with all shades, from pink to burgundy, but there are also white varieties of raspberries, and black ezhevikopodobnye. Raspberry canes are found in countries with temperate climates, they grow in the woods, along the banks of rivers and cuttings in the wild, bred in cultural gardens.

Cultural breeding raspberries engaged by the Romans: the writings of Cato the Elder, dated III century BC raspberry bushes were mentioned among other fruit-bearing plants. In the I century BC Pliny the Elder discovered huge thickets of raspberry bush in Crete, calling it Rubus Idaeus (Ida Red). The name and to retain the Latin name of the plant so far, symbolizing the legendary mountain of the gods, and I go red What color goes red: beware   berries.

Not life - raspberry

Medicinal properties of raspberry are determined by its composition: sugars, glucose and fructose make up to twelve percent, malic, salicylic, tartaric and citric acid, cellulose, essential oil, micro and macro - copper, iron, phosphorus, calcium, potassium, magnesium and vitamins B, C, E, PP and carotenes. The well-known remedy for colds and tea with raspberries, quickly expels sickness, because it includes have a valuable acid, powerful antiseptics, which are aspirin, cures the sick. Dried fruits include raspberries are often found in many a diuretic and diaphoretic.

Also antipyretic action, raspberries has hemostatic, antitoxic, analgesic, used for anemia, improves appetite, complexion, is a good antidepressant, helps the good work of the gastrointestinal tract, normalizes heart rate. Folic acid, which is part of ripe berries, helps women during pregnancy, gestation babies. This raspberry is one of the few berries that does not lose its medicinal and useful properties, even during heat treatment. Sweet raspberry able to cope with the summer heat, because crimson fruit drinks, fruit drinks and kvass considered the number one means of thirst. Nutritionists recommend eating at least forty grams of fruit each day.

On a note

Malina is contraindicated in gout and kidney nephritis. Delicate fruit ripe berries are stored in a refrigerator at a temperature of zero degrees to ten days in a sealed glass jar. Longer shelf life can be reported raspberries, pour it with sugar and put down the fridge. Prepared from ripe raspberry liquor, wine, juices, syrups, jams, jams, jams, dried it in the sun and stored in a clean canvas bags, used in cooking compotes, mousses, jellies and fruit desserts. Fresh raspberries are used to prepare ice cream, smoothies, pies, dumplings Vareniki. Do the world something tasty? , Sherbet, halva, jelly, cream, yogurt, souffle.

It is interesting

In Russian folklore raspberry ancient times was considered a symbol of the Motherland, will, freedom. This verbs proverbs:

• Not life - raspberry
• Exile - viburnum, birthplace - raspberry
• From the mind - raspberries, get to the core - the chaff
• Do not visit Kalina raspberry.

Much later, the Russian language was enriched with adjectives such idioms as "crimson bells" and "crimson jacket." However, a berry-raspberry these idioms are relevant only as to the color. Evening Bells bells sounded at the time, when all the neighborhood of settlements and the sky painted in crimson. Bright red jackets of new Russian end of the 1990s - an unforgettable symbol of the era. Until now, the leadership in growing sweet raspberries on the world market keeps Russia.

Western cinema also sprouted lush raspberry bushes annually in the United States awarded Movie Awards "Golden Raspberry» (Golden Raspberry) for the worst film. During that same sweet berries fell into such disfavor? The origins of the name has its origins in slang Bronx raspberry, Bronx cheer, which means a rude sound.

Jeanne Pyatirikova

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