Healthy raspberries Rich in vitamins and valuable minerals

Delicious and healthy: a variety of uses of raspberry in the kitchen

Raspberries have this season from June to October season. The red fruits are due to their pleasant sweet taste above all pure pleasure, but they can also be used for summer delicacies such as fruit cake, jams, jellies and juices. Raspberries are rich in essential vitamins and contain valuable minerals and fiber.

Season from June to October

Raspberries are among the most delicious fruits for fresh consumption due to their unique aroma. This explains their great popularity with consumers. Preference is given to local berries. As it says on the website "deutsches-obst-und-gemuese.de", almost 75 percent of the shrub berries sold come from Germany. From June to October the raspberry (Rubus idaeus) is in season in this country.

The best taste is pure raspberries. The delicious fruits can also be processed into delicacies such as fruit pies, jams and juices. Raspberries are rich in essential vitamins and minerals and low in calories. (Image: pilipphoto / fotolia.com)

The raspberry is not a berry

There are many varieties of raspberries that are sometimes very different in their appearance, reports the Federal Center for Nutrition (BZfE). For example, there are red, yellow, black, small, large, oblong, round or tapered fruits.

Also in terms of their size, there are significant differences. While wild raspberries are about one centimeter long, the raspberries reach even sizes up to three inches.

The raspberry is botanically not really a berry. Rather, the fruit is composed of many small hairy stone fruits sitting on a cone-shaped fruit soil.

The individual Steinfrüchtchen adhere with their fine hairs like velvet cloths together and together form a Sammelsteinfrucht.

Healthy ingredients

Healthily, there are the delicious fruits in itself. The raspberry contains plenty of minerals, especially phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and iron.

In the case of vitamins, it has a high content of B vitamins (B1 and B2) as well as vitamin C. Already 100 grams of raspberries cover a quarter of the daily requirement of an adult for vitamin C..

In addition, raspberries are rich in sugars, fruit acids - especially citric acid - and fiber. Flavonoids and phenolic acids complete the potpourri of healthy ingredients.

As the BZfE explains, these two phytochemicals are believed to have antibiotic and anti-cancer properties.

And with just 0.3 grams of fat and 43 kilocalories per 100 grams, the sweet to slightly sweet-sour fruit is a very low calorie temptation.

Various uses

Not only because of their aroma, but also because of the multiple uses of raspberry in the kitchen, the fruits are so popular.

When not going directly from hand to mouth, they can be freshly used for fruit or savory salads, as a cake topping or for delicious desserts.

In addition, you can process them to jam, syrup, juice or red groats and they taste very good as Mus.

There are also a number of industrially manufactured products such as liquor, wine and vinegar.

Correctly clean and store

The small sweet fruits can be frozen very well. Outside of the freezer, raspberries have a limited shelf life because they are extremely sensitive to pressure.

Therefore, if possible, they should be prepared on the day of purchase. If they are not eaten or processed immediately, they are best stored in the refrigerator where they last a few days.

On the website "deutsches-obst-und-gemuese.de" there is a good tip: "So that the small, red fruits keep their intense aroma and a typical consistency, it is advisable, before eating them, only cautious and weak Clean shower spray with water. "(Ad)