Dried cranberries in domestic stores - this is a natural pharmacy for the whole family

If you make stocks of berries, herbs and vegetables for the winter, and after using a whole year for cooking, drinks in the form of broths, compotes for dessert, infusions, then you can soon see how health has improved. And external changes, so to speak, are obvious. Why is this happening? It's all about the natural strength of her gifts, the composition that makes up the deficit and serves as a healing elixir. Today we will tell about a berry, one of the best and strong, if we talk about the possibilities for the human body. It is dried cranberries, it is in this form that it is best to store these fruits, as the amount of nutrients remains at the maximum level.

The most beautiful legend about the beak - the savior of the Slavic ancestors

In ancient times, when the Slavs suffered from the Tatars and their brutal attacks, an event happened that many considered a miracle. Whether this is true or fiction, but our history is based, including on myths and legends, so, we learn the past and expand our horizons. So one day the tribes left in a dense forest, where the swamps and swamps to hide. But the evil Tatar leader learned about the place of settlement, and that there also live beauties - blue-eyed wives, whom he very much wanted to take to himself.



The enemy's huge army moved into that forest. But for the time that our ancestors lived in their own, they could find friends in the form of cranes. They fed them, cherished them, and the birds appreciated care. When the enemies approached the swamps, many of them drowned here. The fierce leader became angry and ordered the killing of all the tribes by arrows.

But a miracle happened for the Slavs and a terrible moment for the Tatars - cranes flew into the sky, which closed people from iron arrows, they were wounded, but still they flew. Blood dripped to the ground, the army faded from fear, and on the place of the fall of cranes blood appeared red berries - cranberries. Truth or fiction, you decide, but until the end, no one can tell where the plants came from and we are on our planet. Well, we are talking about dried cranberries today, what can its benefits be for us now.

For reference! This legend explains why the berry is called a crane. The second name is bearish, as animals like to feast on cranberry bushes.

Ingredients of red berries

Before talking about what can supply us with a supply of cranberries at home, we will note important information about its composition. After all, there is power in it. Cranberry is rich in vitamins - E, group B: B1, B2, B4, B5, B6, and also C, K, PP.There are many macro and microelements in the composition - potassium, sodium, iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper, selenium, manganese, phosphorus. Are found in dried cranberries and acids - polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, saturated.

Of course, we have to say about BIU - this is the necessary information to know how much you can make up for the deficit and it is useful for those people who follow their shape and weight in general. The latter just need to know more and what is the caloric content of dried cranberries.

In the composition( based on 100 grams):

• proteins - 0.1 grams;
• fats - 1.4 grams;
• carbohydrates - 76.5 grams;
• calorie content is 308 kcal.

As you can see, carbohydrates are leading in the berry, but they do not spoil our figure, because they are represented by a slow or complex variety. Such carbohydrates do not cause jumps in blood sugar, do not affect negatively on health. And now let's talk in more detail, why we need to have all the berries in stocks, make from it broths, compotes, desserts.

Dried cranberries - important information about the benefits and harms of red fruits

Healing power of

You can not even imagine how much cranberries can give us. Having made stocks, you as if create a coin box from medicines, only they practically harmless, natural and very effective. Beak in your house is:

• is a powerful antioxidant. This makes the fruit the main enemy of our old age;
• protection in the cold season. Berry helps to raise the strength of the body, kills the pathogenic microflora;
• helps with inflammatory processes in the body, including with genitourinary ailments, especially female ones, such as cystitis;
• prevention of oncology, as in the composition there are substances that fight free radicals, and they cause many diseases;
• help with purulent diseases, blood problems, with the work of the digestive tract;
• remedy for depression, insomnia, fears;
• tone and energy in the body, as well as active brain function;
• protection of blood vessels and our motor - the heart. Cranberry very well helps vessels, cleans them, removes harmful cholesterol, protects against blood clots;
• stimulates many necessary processes in the body, for example, normalizing blood levels, acidity of the stomach, increasing appetite.

It's that with regards to the beneficial properties of dried cranberries for the body from the inside. But the berry is also an assistant to our appearance. Cranberry masks, lotions, ice from the juice help to cope with problems on the skin. Pass inflammation, pimples, because cranberries depress bacteria, also less pronounced are wrinkles, dark circles under the eyes, spots after acne. It will also help with skin diseases such as lichen, psoriasis, eczema and other ailments. Decoctions and infusions based on dried berries allow to solve problems with scalp - itching, dandruff, dryness.

Tip! Dried cranberries and honey together are a real elixir of health that has been proven. Make infusions, desserts, just mix the ingredients, and you will feel how the body becomes different.

There is a lot of fiber in the berry, it cleans our body, which means that toxins, slag and fat cease to accumulate in it. We think you yourself understand what the positive effect is - clean skin, energy, healthy hair, a slender body. The rate of consumption per day of fiber is up to 35 grams. Berry is a powerful stimulant for regenerating tissues, and nails save from harmful fungus, making them strong and shiny.

Separately it is necessary to say about cranberries, as about the antibiotic that created by mother nature itself. In the composition of the berries there is such a substance as tannin. Thanks to this, when we eat the fruits of the bush, bacteria and viruses begin to die, thereby the disease passes or does not have time to start. All pathogenic flora is removed naturally from the body. And, most importantly, it is an environmentally friendly and natural medicine.

The benefits of cranberries to future mothers

Separately, it is worth mentioning how dried cranberries are useful for pregnant women. Berry helps to remove swelling, which so often torture future mothers. Since the vessels from cranberries are cleaned, their walls become elastic, then problems with the veins do not happen, and varicosity bothers most women in position. Pressure jumps - this is also a common phenomenon during the carrying of a child, the problem can solve the cranberry broth. And, of course, the berry stimulates the immune system, protects against inflammation, which means that the expectant mother will not get sick, catch a cold, and she will not have to drink chemotherapy drugs.

Important! Cranberry for pregnant women is useful, but it can be used in the diet only after permission of the doctor who follows the woman. No self-medication should not be, it is also very important to comply with the dosage, do not overeat.

On the negative impact of

It often happens that people are ignorant, having read about the benefits of this or that product or product, they begin to eat it in excess, which causes a negative effect. With dried cranberries, everything is the same. The berry contains many acids, and they in excess can cause increased acidity, exacerbate chronic diseases such as gastritis, ulcer. Negatively, the acid will affect the teeth.



Excess fiber leads to the fact that the work of the digestive tract is disrupted. Children under three years, in general, are not recommended to give cranberries, and mothers that breastfed babies, it is even more contraindicated. We must understand that all natural gifts can cause allergy in certain people, worse, there is an individual intolerance of individual components. If you are often tormented by heartburn, there are chronic liver diseases, it is also better not to eat berries or eat it only dosed and with the permission of a doctor. Do not use in the diet of berries and those who have too sensitive teeth.

How to procure supplies with your own hands or about drying cranberries

You've already learned a lot about berries. You can talk for a long time, but who knows how to dry cranberries to save it all season? Not all, especially those who live in the city. Methods can be different, but the basic, simple and affordable for all three are:

1. Oven.
2. Dryer.
3. Open air or attic.

The latter, of course, is not suitable for everyone, but if you have a balcony, a dacha and there is warm and well-ventilated, then you can use these places. Only then is the important nuance - the weather, it should be good. And we would not mention this point, if not the fact that the culture called cranberries is maturing in autumn. But even in the rainy season there are many warm and sometimes hot days. So, let's start drying.

In the oven, the berry is dried at a temperature of 40-45 degrees. Of course, you need to wash the cranberries first, remove all the bad berries, twigs, dry it on a towel and then send it to the pan. Lubricate it is not necessary, you can put parchment. Dried berries - shriveled, this is a dried fruit. As the cranberries became so, the process is over. Keep stocks in paper bags to allow access to oxygen.

Important! To dry the berry as needed, keep the oven door slightly open.

In the fresh air or attic, the process will last longer. You will also prepare the cranberries, as we described above, then lay them on a baking sheet or paper. Next, cover well with gauze, otherwise you risk getting dried cranberries with insects and watch for the entire time. You need to constantly turn the fruits, they also do not have to lie close to each other.

And the third method is a dryer. This is a device from the category of small household appliances, now it has become very popular, because a healthy lifestyle is fashionable. Everyone is looking for recipes, how to eat properly. Berries for the dryer are also prepared, as for the oven, and then put in one layer on pallets and set the mode, according to the instructions to this model. The process can take from a few hours to 1-2 days. You can dry at higher temperatures, it saves time, but the benefits will be less.

Thus, you learned about the benefits and harms of cranberries dried, how to store it even in the city for the whole winter and expanded your horizons by reading a beautiful legend.