Barberry has a characteristic tart-sour taste and for this reason it is affectionately called "northern lemon". True, for some reason barberry is not so common in our kitchens as a southern companion, and in vain, because of the content of vitamins and organic acids, they could compete.
Useful properties of dried barberry
The doctors know about the beneficial properties of dried barberry not for the first day, and not even for the first century. By the way, barberry is always freely sold in pharmacies, and only recently it has been actively advertised as a dietary supplement.
Barberry contains citric, malic and tartaric acids. It contains many alkaloids, vitamin C, beta-carotene and tocopherol - due to this barberry is considered a good antioxidant, prolonging youth.
Dried berries of barberry will be especially useful in the following cases:
- at problems with GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT - berries render cholagogue, easy laxative action, improving digestion and peristalsis of an intestine;
- with pain and spasms - barberry produces a weak spasmolytic effect;
- with diarrhea - barberry has a fixing effect due to tannins;
- at a high temperature - slightly reduces the heat.
Weight Loss
Of course, like most useful products, dried barberry is also used for weight loss. It attracts slimming barberry due to low caloric content (50 kcal per 100 g of dried berries) and choleretic effect.
The best way to lose weight is to prepare compotes from dried barberry. If there are berries as a snack - the appetite will only increase, and the feeling of satiety will last for a maximum of half an hour, no matter how much you eat delicious berries. The reason is that barberry consists of easily digestible carbohydrates. For the same reason, we do not recommend adding it as a spice to dishes (a good Uzbek pilau may be an exception).