This berry of the gooseberry family in the wild is common throughout Europe, Siberia, meets both in Kazakhstan and North America, and in cultural form and in the South.
Different currants
Black currant, in addition to excellent taste, is still very healthy, as it contains many vitamins, as well as pectin and carotene. It has many minerals - manganese, magnesium, copper, silver, etc. And in terms of vitamin C content, it is the absolute leader among other berries. For example, to ensure a daily requirement for ascorbic acid, it is enough to eat 15 -20 berries. Low calorie (51 kcal) makes it an indispensable dietary product. Black currant is widely used in folk medicine for therapeutic and preventive purposes. Jams from it are the most popular in the world from all other berries. Very popular tinctures and liqueurs of black currant. So, when buying currants, we are guided not only by considerations, what is useful berry, but, frankly, the perfect combination of taste, aroma and freshness.
Currant leaves are widely used for pickling mushrooms and cucumbers. However, very few people know that a decoction of fresh young leaves of black currant is an excellent means for losing weight, as it perfectly removes slag from the body.
Currant has diuretic properties - moreover, it concerns both leaves, and berries, and, in particular, the unrevealed buds of the plant. For this reason, currant reduces pressure.
Also, the berry is also an excellent sweatshop, which is used not only for colds, but for losing weight. If we talk about the red currant, you can not underestimate its useful medicinal properties for colds, sore throats, flu. There is an opinion that the red currant, like many other red berries, increases the pressure.
In addition to medicinal properties, the currant has contraindications. It should be noted that the red berry is really undesirable for people with hypertension and high acidity
The least contraindications, and, for some reason, less glory, the white currant. At a very low calorie content - only 41 calories, it is ideal for a diet. It is said that black currants are planted for grandchildren, red for children, and white for oneself. For the elderly, the most useful is white currant, since it does not cause allergies and improves the blood composition, it has a beneficial effect on the skin and tissues of the body. She also has the property of lowering blood pressure .