Useful secrets of winter berry

Cranberry not for nothing call "winter" berry. Cold weather you will not frighten her, and unlike her many berry fellows she is capable to keep in herself the maximum quantity of useful substances even in winter time. How can she be useful?

This berry is the most powerful antioxidant having anti-inflammatory and anticarcinogenic properties. In it there are a lot of vitamins C, K, B6 and E, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, calcium and zinc. The cranberry contains few calories, over 80% of water, 10% of carbohydrates, a small amount of food fibers, protein, salicylic acid, flavonoids, antotsian and triterpenoid. The cranberry is actively used in cookery: fresh berries add to salads, yogurts, eat crude and drink in the form of juice. But the main thing that the cranberry has a large amount of useful properties. Let's list only some of them:

1. Prevents the infection of urinary tract (IUT)

One glass of cranberry juice without sugar in day suffices to prevent IMP. All this thanks to a proantotsianidin as a part of berries. They do not allow harmful bacteria to be late in cages of an uric path. Not less effectively berries of a cranberry struggle with female sexually transmitted infections. Dense cranberry drink will be very useful help at cystitis.


2. Struggles with oral cavity infections

The use of a fresh cranberry well influences an oral cavity and prevents emergence of gingivit, any diseases of gums and an oral cavity, emergence of a dental plaque and stone. Thanks to contents in the composition of polyphenols, berries of a cranberry do not allow to develop to caries and periodontosis. Vitamin C which in a large number contains in a cranberry actively struggles with infections and diseases of gums. To forget about bacteria in a mouth, it is recommended to drink unsweetened cranberry juice on a half-glass in day.

3. Reduces risk of appearance of cardiovascular diseases

All this thanks to a large number of flavonol, vitamins and cellulose in berries. The phytochemical composition of a cranberry increases organism resistance to oxidations and emergence of platelets, reduces arterial blood pressure and development of atherosclerosis, prevents heart attacks and strokes, increases anti-inflammatory properties.
For improvement of a cardiovascular system it is necessary to drink daily 1-2 glasses of unsweetened cranberry juice.


4. Reduces development of oncological diseases

The cranberry is a source of antineoplastic agents, reducing thereby development of cancer tumors. Thanks to antioxidants it becomes the excellent anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative means preventing diseases of a prostate, a liver, mammary glands, ovaries, a thick gut and cancer of a mouth.

5. Increases immunity

High content of vitamin C and other phytochemical components does a cranberry by the best antioxidant for increase in immunity, fight of an organism against cold and flu. The glass of juice in day reduces risk of developing of catarrhal diseases.


6. Strengthens bones

Thanks to high content of calcium, the cranberry strengthens a skeleton and bones of the person, interferes losses of bone density, reducing thereby risk of changes and developing of osteoporosis. A glass of cranberry juice in day - the remarkable recipe for health and force of bones.

7. Helps at gastrointestinal frustration

Contents in a cranberry of a retina reduces risk of appearance of gastrointestinal diseases, locks and chronic inflammation of a stomach and a thick gut, improves digestion.

8. Fights against aging

Antioxidants (vitamins C, B3 and B5) which are contained in a cranberry fight against aging by disposal of an organism of the free radicals promoting age, to "physiological wear" of an organism and also detain a degeneration of cells of a brain and skin, interfere with loss of memory and deterioration in coordination of movements.


9. Improves a condition of skin

For this purpose it is regularly necessary to do masks on the basis of a cranberry. They peel the become lifeless skin and interfere with clogging of a time. Juice of this berry can be used as a toner for oily skin which becomes elastic subsequently, elastic and shining and also to apply it to prevention of appearance of wrinkles, eels and pimples, reddening and pigmentation of skin. An excellent face pack from honey and a cranberry: evenly put mix from equal parts of honey and juice of berries on a face, and in 15-20 minutes wash warm water.

10. Prevents appearance of stomach ulcer of a stomach and duodenum

The regular use of cranberry juice suppresses growth of bacteria of Helicobacter Pylori causing development of an ulcer on a mucous membrane of a stomach and diseases of a gullet, and a duodenum. Those who are in a zone of high risk of stomach ulcer need to drink regularly cranberry juice to suppress an infection.

At the use of a cranberry it is important to know that:

• intake of berries is incompatible with the drugs diluting blood

• it is dangerous to use a cranberry to the people having stones in kidneys as it increases the level of uric oxalate

• it is not recommended to take berry together with aspirin and to that who has an allergy to aspirin,

• it is better to use a cranberry fresh, and it to drink juice unsweetened and to dilute with a small amount of water.