Samberry berries are just gaining their popularity in our area, and therefore the fruits of sunny berries or Canadian blueberries can rarely be found in markets and dachas. Samberi has little in common with domestic blueberries (except perhaps the name), and in its shape and size samberi resembles a cherry. This berry is used for a variety of purposes: it is added to pies, jam is made, and cosmetic and medicinal potions are made.
Benefit
Samberi has many beneficial properties, including: antiseptic, anti-cold, lowering blood sugar levels. These berries are also used to rinse the throat for sore throats. And if you add honey to samberi, you can use the berries to improve stomach health. They are also effective for headaches, asthma, and rheumatism. When mixed with sour milk, samberi helps get rid of skin pustules, abscesses and small wounds. A mixture of this berry and egg will help improve skin health with psoriasis, eczema, and seborrhea. Samberry juice is effective for the common cold, hypertension, angina pectoris, rheumatism, gastritis, prostate adenoma, neuralgia, and convulsions.
Samberry is concentrated a large number of pectin, which prolongs the youth of the skin and removes toxins from the body. Thanks to the antioxidants contained in samberi, these berries contribute to:
- prevention of cancer;
- strengthening the immune system;
- rapid recovery from infectious diseases.
This product also stimulates the secretion of bile, has a weak diuretic effect, and is useful in the treatment of cystitis and urolithiasis.
Because of my high calorie content, samberi are not a dietary product. Therefore, they are not suitable for daily use.
But, given their nutritional and vitamin-mineral value, these berries should be consumed from time to time. This way you can replenish the reserves of microelements that are needed for the body to function properly.
Harm
If you consume more than 200-300 grams of berries per day, problems may arise at work. digestive system and intestinal upset (diarrhea). Samberi should not be consumed in combination with fresh milk, cereals and fruits. Samberry is rarely eaten raw: all because of the specific taste of the berries and the high risk of side effects. Therefore, this product is often eaten after at least dousing it with boiling water.
You should not get carried away with eating these berries if you have problems with overweight and obesity. But you can (and even need) to introduce samberi into your diet if you have difficulty with bowel movements and frequent constipation: 35-40 g of the product will provide a mild laxative effect.
Also, sunberries should not be eaten unripe: in this case, the fruits can be poisonous or, at a minimum, very harmful to health. If you eat only ripe berries, then they will not contain harmful substances that could have any negative effect on the body.
Samberry contains a moderate amount of saturated fatty acids and carbohydrates. In addition, they do not contain carcinogens that contribute to the development of cancer. Quite the opposite: the berries themselves help reduce the likelihood of developing cancer.
Calorie content
100 grams of samberi berries contain 220 kcal (9% of the daily value).
Contraindications
It is better not to eat these berries if you need to maintain extreme concentration: samberi can cause drowsiness. It should be remembered that this berry sometimes causes allergies and individual intolerance.
It is also better to limit the consumption of this product during lactation and exacerbation of various diseases. And for pregnant women it’s better to abstain altogether sun berries ok: they can cause uterine contractions.
Infants should also not be given samberi: children can introduce this berry into their diet only after three years (but in minimal doses, otherwise problems in the gastrointestinal tract and other undesirable symptoms may occur).
The nutritional value
Vitamins and minerals
Samberry also contains valuable minerals that the body needs for proper functioning and prevention of diseases of the nervous, digestive, and vascular systems:
| Name of mineral | Quantity (per 100 g) | % Daily Value |
| Calcium | 95 mg | 9,5 |
| Magnesium | 37 mg | 9 |
| Sodium | 260 mg | 20 |
| Potassium | 320 mg | 12,8 |
| Copper | 0.871 mg | 87 |
| Chromium | 6.86 mcg | 14 |
| Nickel | 0.073 mg | 130 |
| Iron | 6 mg | 32 |
| Zinc | 1.9 mg | 15,83 |
| Manganese | 1.18 mg | 68 |
Reasonable and moderate consumption sunny berries will give new taste sensations, diversify the menu and provide the body important vitamins and valuable minerals. Samberi is an unusual but tasty food product. If you do not overuse these berries and eat them little by little, you can only extract from them beneficial features.
Sunberry, despite its amazing sunny name, they are unlikely to please with its exquisite, pleasant taste. But they have a lot of valuable vitamins and elements, for which they have earned wide popularity in the field of traditional medicine. Why the berry is useful and where it is used, besides medicine, let's figure it out.
Sunberry- a berry bred from two types of nightshade: African and European. Its creator in 1905 was the well-known breeder Luther Benbank. 
Externally, the berry is similar to blueberries or, but differs from them more tall(up to 1.5 m) and more large fruits the size of .
Did you know? The second name for sunberry is Canadian blueberry. She received it due to its mass distribution in Canada and America.
A feature of this plant is its unpretentiousness. Even a novice gardener can grow nightshade in his own garden.
The plant has increased resistance to moisture, ultraviolet rays, temperature changes environment. Another advantage of the bush is its high yield. From one small plant you can collect several tens of kilograms of fruit. 
Chemical composition
If you analyze the chemical composition of sunberry berries, they contain almost all microelements, vitamins and useful material, necessary to the human body.
Sunberries cannot boast of taste qualities, but they stand out for their very high nutritional value. The calorie content per 100 g of fruit is 220 kcal.
The nutritional value of the product is presented per 100 g:
- - 9 g;
- - 28 g;
- - 41 g;
- - 2.1 g.
Due to its rather high calorie content, nightshade is not recommended for consumption in large quantities by people who are on a diet and are actively fighting excess weight. Vitamins, macro- and microelements
The rich composition of solar nightshade allows it to be qualified as a therapeutic and prophylactic plant with anti-inflammatory, anti-cold, antioxidant, antibacterial, rejuvenating and cleansing functions. The plant is rich in:
- (thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pyridoxine);
- carotene (provitamin A);
- pectins;
- lipids;
- anthocyanins;
- tannins.
The chemical composition of the fruit is supplemented with fats, proteins, fructose, and galactose. The berries also contain toxic substances, such as mercury, but their quantity is so minute that they cannot cause harm to human health.
Canadian blueberries are often used in medicinal and for preventive purposes, because it has an amazing effect on almost all human organ systems. 
For the gastrointestinal tract
The fruits have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, help the liver and pancreas cope with severe and fatty foods, normalize metabolic processes, cleanse the body. Systematic use of the product relieves constipation, prevents intoxication and poisoning. The berries enhance the secretion of bile and have weak diuretic properties, making them suitable for cystitis and urolithiasis.
Important! The fruits should be consumed in small doses. Dosage over 200-300 g per day can lead to digestive system upset and severe diarrhea.
For the cardiovascular system
Using Sunberry improves performance of cardio-vascular system. Micro- and macroelements contained in the berry strengthen the walls of blood vessels, making them more elastic, elastic and durable. Useful components enrich and saturate the blood, which helps to renew its composition. Chromium in the product normalizes sugar levels and fights high cholesterol, and zinc increases the number of leukocytes and has a positive effect on hematopoiesis.
Also, with the systematic use of blueberry jam, normalization of blood pressure is noted.
Thanks to its anti-inflammatory properties, nightshade relieves all inflammatory processes in joints, suitable for the treatment of rheumatism, joint pain, neuralgia, cramps. It also helps with initial stages osteochondrosis, prevents destruction cartilage tissue. For these purposes, they use various infusions and decoctions from the leaves of the plant, eat fresh fruits or jams from them, and make compresses. 
For vision
Vitamin A has a positive effect on vision, improves it, and restores sharpness. In some cases, the product helps overcome glaucoma.
Did you know? The most famous and widespread drug for improving vision, “Blueberry Forte,” contains sunberry berries, which is official confirmation of its effectiveness.
For skin
Another important quality fruit is an external action. They are used for various skin diseases, wounds, ulcers, boils. Berry puree is suitable for treating acne and acne. An infusion of leaves helps stop aging, rejuvenate the skin, and restore its firmness and elasticity.
Since Canadian blueberries have a wide range of beneficial functions and medicinal properties, then it has long been used in folk medicine to combat various ailments. 
For sore throat
The berry is rich in vitamin C and elements with antimicrobial functions, which makes it possible to use it for the treatment of acute respiratory diseases, influenza, ARVI:
- For sore throats, rinse with a specially prepared solution: freshly squeezed fruit juice is diluted in a 1:3 ratio with plain water. Gargle up to 5 times a day.
- Helps cope with purulent tonsillitis next recipe: 4 g of sunberry leaves and berries are mixed with the same amount of lungwort herb, pour 250 ml of boiling water and leave in a thermos for 2-4 hours. Gargle with the cooled infusion.
The juice from the leaves of the plant is very effective for treating a runny nose. It is instilled into the nose, 2-3 drops. Helps cope even with chronic rhinitis. 
For gastritis
A decoction of dry nightshade stems mixed in equal proportions with will help with gastritis. Prepare the product in this way: 100 g of dry herbs pour 3 liters hot water and leave for 2-3 hours. Drink the decoction 3 times a day, 30 minutes before meals, 2-3 tbsp. l.
For rheumatism
Used for the treatment and prevention of rheumatism fresh berries, leaves and stems of the plant. Prepare baths: 100 g of freshly squeezed sunberry juice is mixed with 50 g of crushed juice and added to water at a temperature not exceeding 37 degrees. The procedure takes no more than 30 minutes. Course - 13 baths.
For articular rheumatism, take 1 tbsp before meals. l. a mixture made from 250 g of honey, 200 g of chopped horseradish, which is washed down with half a glass of juice from nightshade leaves and berries. Treatment is carried out in combination with healing baths.
For boils and purulent wounds
If you are bothered by boils, abscesses, eczema, purulent wounds, ethnoscience advises using a medicinal mixture: 100 ml of solar fruit leaf juice, 2 tbsp. l. fresh juice and mix nightshade with 2 egg whites, mix well. This mixture is applied as a lotion to the affected areas.
You can also use lotions made from crushed fresh berries mixed with a small amount of sour milk or yogurt. Keep the compress for 2-3 hours.
What can you make from sunberries?
Canadian blueberries do not have a pronounced good taste, it is quite fresh, so raw, it is rarely consumed. But jams and jams with nightshade turn out amazing.
To make sunberry and ginger jam, you need to stock up on the following ingredients:
- 1 tbsp. fresh berries;
- 1/3 tbsp. Sahara;
- 1 tsp. grated fresh;
- juice of half
The technique for preparing the aromatic treat is very simple: in a thick-bottomed saucepan, mix the fruits, sugar and ginger, cook for 10 minutes, stirring regularly.
After the specified time, add lemon juice, mix the jam and transfer it to glass jars. The jars are sterilized for 10 minutes, closed with metal lids and cooled. The finished jam can be stored in the refrigerator or a dark, dry place. 
Did you know?You can improve the taste of the berries by first dousing them with boiling water. After 3-5 minutes, the water must be drained.
Nightshade jam with the addition of lemon is very tasty, aromatic and healthy. To prepare it you will need:
- 1 kg of fresh fruits;
- 1 kg sugar;
- 1 tbsp. ordinary water;
- juice of two lemons;
- 2-3 sprigs fresh.
To make jam, you first need to prepare a syrup from sugar and water. After the syrup boils, place the berries in it and boil for 4-5 minutes. Leave the mixture for 4 hours. A similar procedure is performed 2-3 times. During the last cooking, lemon juice and mint sprigs are added to the jam. The delicacy is transferred into sterile glass jars and sealed. Is it possible for pregnant women
Pregnant women should not take sunberries, as they can increase blood circulation in the uterus and cause premature birth, and on early stages- miscarriages.
Doctors warn that you need to be careful when consuming sunberries. The fact is that it is a very strong allergen, and the body’s reaction to it can be unpredictable. When trying fruits for the first time, limit yourself to a few berries and wait to see how your body accepts them. 
Only plants grown in ecologically clean areas, in dachas, and villages should be used for food. Nightshade has the ability to actively absorb lead from the soil, various heavy metals, which provide harmful effect per person and can cause poisoning.
Sunberry render light sedative effect, therefore, when consuming large quantities of them, it is better not to drive. People who have problems with excess weight and obesity are not advised to get carried away with American blueberries. However, if you have problems with stool, including constipation, you can include it in your menu at a dosage of 35-40 g.
Important! Even if the person is not suffering allergic rashes After consuming sunberries, you should not eat more than one handful of them per day.
The sunberry sunberry is a useful and unpretentious plant that can be grown with a minimum of effort. She is capable of becoming not only a queen at her dacha, but also very valuable product in the diet of a person who wants to improve their health and prolong their youth.
Do you want blueberries? But not a simple one, but a Canadian one - a harsh northern berry with a restrained taste and luxurious color. Then take note - sunberry, and also sunberry and garden nightshade. The mysterious berry appeared in North American gardens a little more than 100 years ago, and our summer residents and gardeners are still just mastering the overseas guest of the sunberry.
A little history
Sunberry is considered to be the birthplace of South America. The variety of these berries was developed at the beginning of the twentieth century by the American scientific breeder, Darwin's follower Luther Burbank, who also had a very stubborn character. Parent form plants are the African nightshade and the representative of the European continent - creeping nightshade.
The resulting berry hybrid was called sunberry, which translated from English meant “sunny berry.” The new kind inherited from nightshade from Africa fruits that are approximately the size of a large cherry, undemanding to grow, and also fairly high yield qualities. But the excellent ones taste qualities As a result of selection, they were obtained from a European relative - creeping nightshade.
The berry bush grows quite tall, sometimes reaching 2 meters in height. This plant has a thick stem that resembles a tetrahedron. The berries are large, shiny, similar in color to our blueberries, but they ripen in clusters, about 15 pieces each.
You can remove up to a bucket of these sunny berries from the bush. The advantage of sunberries over other berries is their continuous flowering, as well as ripening until autumn.
A relative of tomatoes and potatoes
Not only our native biologist and breeder Ivan Michurin worked wonders for the benefit of science. His American colleague Luther Burbank (the “author” of a special potato variety for French fries) presented the sunberry plant to the world in 1905. This is a hybrid of the huge Guinean nightshade and the small European one, which is more fragrant and quite edible.
Sunberry's closest relatives are tomatoes and eggplants; it bears fruit with black berries, which are collected in clusters. One brush can contain up to 10 cherry-sized pieces, the color is like black currant.
In terms of its biological characteristics, the plant resembles tomatoes, and its main advantage is its greater resistance to cold and drought. Gardeners joke: to grow Canadian blueberry seedlings at home, all you need is a kettle. And in the greenhouse and in the garden she can handle it herself - even without unnecessary feeding and with moderate watering.
Sunberry came to Russia quite recently, and is already actively crowding out tomatoes and zucchini in our gardens, and on the table are vases of cherry and raspberry jam. The mystery and persistence of the American berry has given rise to various myths and a lot of conflicting information regarding the properties and uses of Canadian blueberries.
Sunberry can hardly be called a rich storehouse of vitamins: its beneficial properties and contraindications are mainly due to the mineral complex.
Potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, iron, manganese, copper, zinc and chromium - all these essential substances for humans are found in one modest berry. Canadian blueberries are saturated with tannins, valuable bioflavonoids and pectin - it contains about 15%.
One of the popular names for sunberries is blueberry forte. Many people say that this is what is included in the popular dietary supplement of the same name.
This is pure nonsense (just look at the ingredients in vitamins to see “blueberry extract” and not nightshade), but a fact is a fact. Canadian blueberries are actually very good for the eyes. What else is sunberry famous for, the medicinal properties of which are being so actively studied today?
- has a mild laxative effect and improves the functioning of the digestive tract;
- is effective means to cleanse the body of waste and toxins;
- strengthens the eye muscles and supports vision during permanent job behind the monitor;
- normalizes blood pressure;
- helps in treatment colds of various etiologies;
- relieves sore throat;
- calms the nerves and helps cope with constant insomnia;
- relieves joint pain;
- copes with edema and improves kidney condition (due to the diuretic effect);
- relieves headaches;
- helps in treatment skin diseases(including psoriasis).
Nutritionists advise eating no more than two handfuls of sunberries per day. It is not recommended to give sunberry to young children, due to the fact that children's body It is just being formed, and the berry can cause rashes and itching. Sunberry is actively used in traditional medicine recipes.
- How to restore strength after illness. Three glasses of sunberry are mixed with a glass of pine nuts and passed through a meat grinder. The resulting mixture is mixed with honey. Store the product in the refrigerator. Take one tablespoon before meals.
- As a gargle during a sore throat. To do this, the sunberries are pre-squeezed. Repeat the rinsing procedure 2-3 times a day.
- To reduce pressure plant stems and flowers are used. This is done during the flowering period. Grind the greens in a blender and squeeze out the juice. Add honey at the rate of 2 tablespoons per half liter of juice. You should take one tablespoon in the morning and afternoon.
- For the treatment of diseases thyroid gland
. To prepare a mixture that will compensate for the lack of iodine, you can use sunberry, honey, and feijoa. To prepare, you need to take 2 parts of berries, one part of honey and feijoa.
All components must be mixed in equal proportions. Leave the resulting mixture in a dark place for 40-80 minutes. This consistency must be taken twice a day (in the morning and lunch) 2/3 cup. - Using sunberry to treat diseases of the cardiovascular system. The beneficial substances and elements contained in the berries help renew the blood and improve its composition. In addition, this plant has a beneficial effect on blood vessels, increases their elasticity and prevents “fragility”.
- Benefits for vision. Vitamin A contained in fruits has positive influence on vision, maintaining its sharpness. Therefore, those who already have vision problems or constantly keep their eyes strained are recommended to take an extract from sunberries.
- Treatment of prostate adenoma. 5 g dried berries place sunberry and the same amount of licorice roots in half a liter of water heated to 40 degrees. Leave for 10 hours in a closed container. Take the infusion (necessarily fresh) before meals (10 minutes before) 1 tbsp.
- For abscesses and purulent wounds use crushed berry pulp. After adding a little sour milk or kefir to it, it is applied to the wounds.
- For the treatment of gastritis 100 grams of a mixture of berries, leaves and stems is poured into 3 liters. boiling water Leave for 3 hours. Strain. Take several times a day, half an hour before meals, 3 tbsp.
- For acne, various boils prepare a mixture of crushed fresh leaves and sunberries. It is the fresh mixture that preserves all the beneficial properties of the plant.
- Treatment of skin diseases(psoriasis, eczema, seborrhea). Mix 2 egg whites, 100 g of sunberry juice squeezed from the leaves and 2 tablespoons of berry juice. Use the mixture as a lotion.
- For iodine deficiency. If you brought feijoa home from vacation or a regular supermarket, don’t miss the chance. An exotic medicine will not just replace a full-fledged dessert, but will also support the thyroid gland. For 2 cups of garden nightshade, take 1 cup of feijoa, grind it in a blender and add a glass of honey (preferably acacia). This medicine is stored in the refrigerator and taken before breakfast and lunch. One tablespoon is enough.
- For insomnia. Mix the juice from sunberry leaves with flower or linden honey. Take it half an hour before bedtime, one tablespoon.
- For headaches brew the stems with berries and leave for 12 hours. The infusion is used for lotions, which are applied to the head for 20 minutes. I repeat the procedure every day until the pain goes away.
- For joint pain, rheumatism- you need to mix 200 grams of horseradish minced with 250 grams of honey. Take 1 tbsp 3 times a day with a glass of juice from the stems and leaves of sunberry. In addition, before going to bed, you need to take thirty-minute baths, to which you add 50 grams of ground horseradish and 150 ml of freshly squeezed juice from the stems and leaves of sunberry.
- For asthma should be used in equal proportions dried flowers and unripe sunberries, as well as stems of flowering lungwort. Grind everything thoroughly and mix. 1 tbsp. l. pour 0.5 liters of boiling water over the mixture and brew in a thermos. Strain after 2 hours. Take 3 times a day, half an hour before meals, 1 tbsp.
Women who dream of pushing back their old age a little can prepare a real elixir of youth. To prepare it you will need berry juice, which is diluted with water and honey (for 5 liters of water you need to take one liter of honey).
The resulting consistency should be poured into jars and placed in a dark place. You should take 2 tbsp daily. before every meal. This tool will not only preserve youth, but also strengthen memory/improve vision and immunity.
At age spots A mask with sunberry helps very well. To do this, you need to take the main component and mash it well with a fork (2 tbsp), add a teaspoon mashed potatoes warm, chopped parsley (tsp) and lemon juice (tbsp).
This mixture must be applied to the skin of the face/neck/body for 20-30 minutes. After this period of time, the consistency must be washed off with warm water.
Product storage features
The leaves of the berry bush are stored dried for a long time. They are collected during the summer and dried, laid out in a layer of 3-5 cm. But the berries for storage will have to wait. They close the season of spinning and conservation.
To keep fresh berries for a long time, they are cut in bunches and sent to the refrigerator. Thus, the berry can be stored for quite a long time due to its elasticity. If you want to store fresh nightshades for the winter, freeze them after rinsing them. Use special dryers or ovens.
Features of collecting and preparing healthy berries
Nightshade can be stored for a month in a cool place.
The berries have a specific nightshade aftertaste, which not many people like. In order to remove it, you need to scald the fruits with boiling water.
Important! The sunberry plant absorbs heavy metals from the soil, which then end up in the berries. For this reason, they are not grown in the city, but only in summer cottages - away from roads.
- Dried fruits. The nightshade is sorted out, washed, and when the moisture has drained, it is laid out on a cloth in one layer. The fruits are mixed from time to time to better dry the berries. In places well lit by the sun, nightshade is not dried, as it loses its beneficial qualities.
- Frozen fruits. Washed and well-dried berries are laid out on a flat surface and frozen. Frozen nightshade is packaged in portions. You can store it in this form for no more than a year.
- Freezing with sugar. Clean and dried sunberries are covered with sugar (ratio of 1 kg of nightshade: 300 g of sugar), mixed, and placed in portions in bags or containers.
Sunberry, or sunny berry, is a useful garden plant, and there will always be those who like to eat it. But it's like the others medicinal plants, requires meaningful application.
What's the harm?
There are constant debates about sunberries on forums and gardening websites - the benefits and harms of the American berry are described by each person in their own way. Many lovers of traditional garden delicacies have one argument against Canadian blueberries - “not tasty.” Scientists and doctors are free from sweet stereotypes, but they warn: you need to be very careful with sunberries.
- Sunberry is a powerful allergen. If this is your first time trying nightshade, be sure to eat a couple of berries to try and wait for your body’s reaction. But even if there are no negative reactions, doctors do not recommend eating more than a handful of berries per day. No one has yet canceled the laxative reaction.
- Pectins in sunberry have the ability to intensively “drag” lead and other heavy metals from the soil. Therefore, it is generally prohibited to plant garden nightshade within the boundaries of a vegetable garden, and in dachas and villages the same principle of a handful must be observed.
- During pregnancy, you will also have to stick to regular blueberries—Canadian blueberries are strictly prohibited. Nightshade contains substances that can increase uterine contractions and even cause miscarriage.
- Sunberry has a mild sedative effect, so you should not drive if you have actively eaten the overseas berry. But a couple of spoons of jam or jam from Canadian blueberries will not harm your driving skills - these are still not tranquilizers, but ordinary nightshade.
Sunberry berries have a weak, tart taste, completely different from the usual sweetness and richness of raspberries, currants or cherries. Some sunberry lovers describe its taste as “a unique bouquet of sour currants, tart gooseberries and sweet blueberries with a slight hint of freshly cut grass,” but most people frankly don’t like it.
But almost everyone who has tried Canadian blueberries admits that their taste changes amazingly in jam, and to the very better side. The color is also amazing - dark purple, similar to the color of rich ink, funny coloring the tongue and lips.
Not only jam is made from garden nightshade - also jams, fillings for pies and dumplings, marmalades and jellies, and even dried for tea for the winter.
But don’t forget: jam is a rather high-calorie product, “Canadian” has as many as 220 calories per 100 grams. Therefore, one or two spoons of tea will be enough to maintain your figure and fully enjoy the benefits of sunberry.
Sunberry Lemon Jam
You will need: 1 kg of ripe sunberries, 1 kg of sugar, a glass of water, the juice of two lemons and 2-4 sprigs of mint (to taste).
Sunberry Ginger Jam
You will need: a glass of sunny berries, a third of a glass of sugar, a heaped teaspoon of grated ginger, the juice of half a lemon.
Mix sunberry, sugar and ginger in a saucepan and cook for 10 minutes (you need to stir constantly!). Add lemon juice, remove from the stove - and into the jar. Then we put the jar in a saucepan with hot water so that it does not reach the lid by 1-2 cm. After 10 minutes you can take it out, cool and hide it in the refrigerator.
Samberi - delicious and healthy berries for health and beauty
Samberry is a shrub with dark berries, which are valued and enjoy great popularity and love due to the many beneficial properties and vitamins they contain. The fruits resemble appearance blueberries and have a sour taste.
What are the benefits of samberi berry? Beneficial features
Samberi contains the following beneficial substances:
Pectins;
antioxidants;
many different vitamins;
selenium;
organic compounds.
Thanks to the rich healing composition berries help remove poisons and toxins from the body, slowing down the aging process. To preserve beauty, health and youth, fruits are an indispensable means.
Application of the berry
The plant is used in various areas. Not only the berry itself is widely used in cooking, but also parts of the bush in medical purposes. From leaves, roots, stems they make various tinctures and decoctions. Sambery can improve general state blood.
The juice of the berry has anti-cold and antiseptic properties, helps with sore throats. For treatment, you should dilute the juice with 1/3 part of water and gargle with the drink.
Fruit juice has an excellent effect when diluted (600 g of juice per 2 liters) with the addition of honey to normalize blood pressure and various diseases:
* rheumatism;
* stomach ulcer;
* hepatitis;
* headache;
* asthma.
For ulcers, purulent wounds and abscesses spoiled milk, mixed with berries, has antiseptic properties.
In dermatology it is known that the combination raw egg with samberi juice has a beneficial effect on the skin with psoriasis, eczema and seborrhea. Lotions from the medicinal mixture are applied to the affected areas.
Jam made from the fruits of the plant is not only tasty, but also healthy, helps cope with many diseases:
* osteochondrosis;
* rheumatism;
* hypertension;
* angina pectoris;
* epilepsy;
* BPH;
* gastritis.
Infusions from samberi leaves can improve the patient’s condition with gastritis, colitis, cystitis, hypertension, neuralgia, neuroses and convulsive conditions. However, these parts of the plant are poisonous, and their use requires certain knowledge and skills.
Dried stems and leaves are an excellent base for sedative at bronchial asthma. A bandage made from these parts of the plant gives an excellent effect for joint pain, radiculitis and varicose veins veins
The juice is instilled into each nostril for quick disposal from a runny nose. The berries help stimulate bile secretion and are used as a diuretic for cystitis.
How is samberi berry used? Recipes for cooking and use
Before consumption, the berries are scalded with boiling water to eliminate the specific taste.
Recipes using samberi are very effective and serve as a means of treating and preventing various diseases.
Remedy against gastritis
To prepare the infusion, you need to mix crushed dried stems of the bush, wormwood and honey in the proportion of 200 g of herbs per 6 liters of water, honey to taste. Consume 2 tbsp 10-20 minutes before meals.
Jam
Should be boiled sugar syrup. For 2 kg of berries there should be 700 g of water and 1 kg of sugar. Then you need to pour this liquid over the fruits for 4 hours. Next, you need to add another 1 kg of sugar, heat and, stirring, wait until the sugar is completely dissolved, boil for an additional 15 minutes and remove from heat. The jam is infused for 5 hours, 400 g of sugar is added and boiled again for 12-15 minutes. An excellent combination is obtained by mixing jam with apples, quince or lemon.
Harm to berries
In order for the consumption of fruits to be beneficial, you should remember that it is recommended to use up to 250-300 g per day. Using samberi in larger quantities can give a laxative effect and impair absorption. Also, you should not eat the entire specified portion at once; it is better to eat several berries throughout the day, but no later than 19.00 hours.
Remember: Unripe fruits are poisonous and harmful to the body.
The possibility of individual intolerance should also be taken into account, as well as allergic reactions. It is not recommended to use samberi during pregnancy, exacerbation of diseases and during feeding.
At correct use, samberi – extremely tasty and healthy berry. You just need to know the rules for its use, and including it in your diet will have a positive effect on your health.
Sunberry is a hybrid of African and European small-fruited palena. Unlike most plants of this species, sunberry fruits do not contain toxic substances. Sunberry borrowed decorative qualities and productivity from its African ancestor, and European nightshade made it edible.
The variety was developed in 1905 by a breeder named Luther Burbank.
Benefits of the plant
The chemical composition of this plant includes a large number of components that have medicinal and preventive properties. Therefore, sunberry is widely used in the treatment and prevention of ailments using traditional methods.
The main medicinal properties of the plant:
- Heals wounds, including purulent ones. Helps with burns, ulcers and abscesses.
- Fights skin diseases, eczema, psoriasis, seborrhea.
- IN moderate amount, the berries of the plant help with gastritis and other gastric diseases.
- Helps maintain beauty and youth thanks to the antioxidants contained in the fruits.
- Slows down aging, improves memory, reduces the risk of developing glaucoma and diabetes, and helps maintain visual acuity.
- Eases epilepsy attacks.
- Normalizes blood pressure.
- Relieves pain from intestinal spasms.
- Increases the acidity level of gastric juice.
- Helps with rheumatism and osteochondrosis.
- Strengthens the immune system and helps fight viral diseases.
Nutritional value and calorie content
Calorie content - 220 kcal per 100 g.
The berries of the plant contain many useful components - vitamins, microelements, nutrients. Judging by the variety chemical composition, then sunberry contains almost all the components necessary for the human body. The only exceptions are vitamins, for which this plant is not very rich.
Chemical composition:
- Vitamin C. Strengthens the immune system, helps fight viruses and colds.
- Carotene (provitamin A). A strong antioxidant that helps eliminate toxins.
- Manganese. Normalizes blood clotting and the immune system.
- Chromium. Normalizes glucose metabolism.
- Zinc. Stabilizes the functioning of the pancreas and pituitary gland.
- Pectin and selenium. Cleanse the body of toxins and slow down aging.
In addition, sunberry fruits contain many more useful and nutrients, such as silver, potassium, magnesium, copper, nickel, iron, proteins, fats, fructose, etc. The fruit also contains physiological active compounds – tannins, chlorophyll, anthocyanins.
The berry has low taste qualities, but proper preparation you can get delicious and useful product. Sunberry is used to make preserves, jams, wine and added to vegetable caviar.
But you shouldn’t have any special illusions about the taste of sunberry; it rather resembles the taste of a green tomato, which, in fact, is what it is.
Are there any harms and contraindications?
People who consume sunberry should pay attention to some features of this plant and the health problems that may arise.
Traditional medicine recipes
External use:
- Purulent wounds. Grind the berries, mix with fermented milk (1:1) and apply to the ulcers.
- Burns. The berries are fried in butter, crushed to a puree. Cool the mixture and apply to burned skin.
- Angina. Juice and drinking water mix in a 1:1 ratio, gargle with the mixture. This remedy also helps with stomatitis and gingivitis.
- Treatment of skin diseases(psoriasis, eczema, seborrhea). Mix 2 egg whites, 100 g of sunberry juice squeezed from the leaves and 2 tablespoons of berry juice. Use the mixture as a lotion.
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Ingestion:
- General strengthening agent. Mix 2.5 liters of sunberry juice with 2.5 liters of water. Add one and a half kg of honey. Pour the mixture into glass jars and store in a cool place (basement, refrigerator). Take 2 tbsp before meals. l. This elixir improves overall health, normalizes blood pressure, helps with rheumatic pain, gout, varicose veins, reduces the intensity of migraines, relieves headaches and improves memory.
- Treatment of prostate adenoma. Place 5 g of dried sunberries and the same amount of licorice roots in half a liter of water heated to 40 degrees. Leave for 10 hours in a closed container. Take the infusion (necessarily fresh) before meals (10 minutes before) 1 tbsp.
Despite its low taste, sunberry is gradually gaining popularity. High yield, low maintenance, wide range medicinal properties and the possibility of use in cooking make this plant increasingly in demand, especially among gardeners and fans of traditional medicine.
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