For many people, strawberries and strawberries are two completely different berries. Botany debunk this myth: strawberries are mistakenly called garden strawberries because of the specific spherical shape of berries, which resembles "tubers".
What is useful strawberries and strawberries?
Experts note the great benefits of forest strawberries. It is rich in glucose, sucrose, ascorbic acid , carotene, pectin. It also contains essential oils and many useful acids. All this allows the berry to stand not only in the same row with dietary products, but also be useful even to allergic people.
Doctors - dermatologists and cosmetologists with success use strawberry berries as a means for removing freckles, bleaching spots on the skin, treating eczema and depriving. A strawberry extract, added to the cream, has a beneficial effect on the skin, nourishing and softening it.
Strawberries - garden strawberries - also boast a large number of acids (specialists especially provide folic acid). In its composition, as well as in the forest berry, there is fiber , elements of iron, manganese, zinc and chromium. But it is almost 2 times sweeter, because it has more sucrose. Doctors recommend eating at least 3 kilograms of berries in summer in order to make up for the balance of all vitamins and nutrients in the body.
Vitamins in strawberries and strawberries
The berries contain the following useful substances:
- vitamin C - strengthens immunity, fights against cancer cells, promotes the formation of collagen, lowers cholesterol, strengthens the heart muscle and blood vessels;
- iron and vitamin B9 - prevent the development of anemia, are involved in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases;
- vitamins of group B - increase the endurance of the organism, strengthen the nervous system, improve the activity of the gastrointestinal tract and the organs of vision;
- vitamins of group A - increases immunity, inhibits the development of cancer cells, promotes "rejuvenation" of the body, improves vision.
- vitamins K, E - their insignificant amount in strawberries - play an important role: vitamin K - synthesize the formation of red blood cells, increase blood coagulability, vitamin E - improves skin, hair and nails condition.
- vitamin D - ensures the proper development of bone tissue, prevention of rickets.
Which is better, strawberries or strawberries?
Both varieties of berries can be used as medicines in the fight against infirmities, but each of them in its own way. So, for example, strawberries are perfectly fighting with disorders of the central nervous system, jaundice, sore throat, hemorrhoids. Strawberry, in turn, contributes to diseases of the digestive system, kidney and urogenital system, increases immunity.
Both strawberries and strawberries differ in their benefits, taste, aroma and nutritional value. However, folk healers in their own answer to the question about what is more useful than strawberries or strawberries? They appreciate forest berry higher, because it has a lot of medicinal properties.