At cold and high temperature everyone wants to recover quicker therefore to the course, except antiviral and febrifugal drugs, there are and long ago checked grandmother's means. One of them is tea with raspberry jam — about its ability will not reduce temperature, perhaps, to argue nobody. However very few people know what else curative effect the sweet raspberry dessert can have. About them the speech in our article will go. Also you will be able to learn whether there are contraindications to its use.
All known dessert
Raspberry jam — quite widespread dessert which popularity is explained by the taste attractive by a look, simplicity in preparation and storage period.
Train him in two ways:
- By hot cooking with addition of sugar.
- By mastication with sugar without cooking.
With jam and jam it has distinctions on structure — in jam of berry remain integral, and syrup — less liquid. Both adults, and children like to regale on raspberry jam. It is added as a stuffing to pies, puffs, cakes, desserts, eaten with tea, ice cream and just smeared on bread slices.
Whether you know? Raspberry received the Latin name Rubus idaeus in honor of Mount Idy in Greece where it was for the first time found (rubus in translation designates red). It was described in the works still by Pliny the Elder in the 1st century BC. On the basis of its description Karl Linney gave the specific name used today.
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Vitamins
From vitamins B of 100 g of a product holds:
- And, RAE — 2 mkg;
- And, RE — 3 mkg;
- beta carotene — 20 mkg;
- E (alpha tocopherol) — 0.5 mg (3% from recommended norms of the person);
- With (ascorbic acid) — 7.4 mg (8%);
- B1 (thiamine) — 0.01 mg (1%);
- B2 (Riboflavinum) — 0.04 mg (2%);
- B6 (pyridoxine) — 0.04 mg (2%);
- B9 (folates) — 2 mkg (1%);
- RR (niatsin) — 0.4 mg (2%);
- RR, NE — 0.5 mg (3%).
Mineral substances
The crimson dessert contains the following minerals:
- To (potassium) — 168 mg (7%);
- Ca (calcium) — 19 mg (2%);
- Mg (magnesium) — 10 mg (3%);
- Na (sodium) — 14 mg (1%);
- Ph (phosphorus) — 16 mg (2%);
- Fe (iron) — 1.2 mg (7%).
Calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates
Jam quite kaloriyno — in 100 g of a product contains 273 kcal. The same quantity of a product contains 0.6 g of proteins (1% of the recommended standard daily rate for the person), 0.2 g of fats (0%), 70.4 g of carbohydrates (24%), 2 g of food fibers (10%), 26 g of water, 0.3 g of ashes.
Whether you know? Selectors without cease work on removing raspberry grades which will bear large fruits. So, for today the largest recorded berry stone fruit from a grade bush Giant is considered. Its weight — 25 g. It should be noted that the average weight of fruits of usual raspberry — 2-3.5 g. Berries in 7 g are considered as large.
About advantage of raspberry jam
We will begin the review of useful properties of a crimson dessert with the most known of them — sudorific and febrifugal. These curative actions to raspberry are given by acetilsalicylic acid. At the use the hot sweet promotes the increased sweating, as a result with then there are hazardous substances an organism and temperature exchange returns to normal. Besides, vitamin C raises protective mechanisms of a human body against viruses, seasonal colds. Also it is considered that at cold jam is capable to kill headaches.
For adults
Phytoncides in structure allocate jam with antimicrobic action, they represent natural antibiotics.
Important! For treatment it is better to use the jam made by way of so-called cold cooking — when berries just fray with sugar or fructose. Such product contains the highest quantity of useful elements. And here after heat treatment their most part leaves.
Besides, the dessert with raspberry is capable to dilute blood. Enough cellulose in berries improves a vermicular movement and well influences digestive system in general. There is an opinion that raspberry also has antioxidant action therefore can clean an organism from salts of heavy metals. It has also diuretic effect therefore delicacy is possible in reasonable doses to use and at hypostases if only they are not a consequence of serious diseases of heart and kidneys. Also it is useful to eat jam because it contains the vitamins of group B and E promoting delay of processes of cell aging, integuments. Let's note that folk healers attribute to a crimson dessert a set of properties, even such as prevention and improvement of a state at cancer tumors. However no researches on this occasion were conducted therefore it is hardly possible to trust a word of mouth concerning the help of a simple dessert at such serious disease from which even drugs were not invented yet.
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For children
Most of children adores sweet. Therefore raspberry jam, of course, is among their favourite delicacies. But it is important to watch that it was eaten moderately as, as well as all sweet, it badly influences tooth enamel which at children very thin and fragile and quickly gives in to destruction. You should not feed with this sweet of children up to three years. It is fraught with problems with a GIT, allergic rashes on skin, other manifestations of an allergy.
Whether delicacy is possible
Pregnancy and feeding by a breast — responsible stages in the woman's life, directly depends at this time on a condition of an organism of mother also health of the kid. Therefore ladies should approach seriously the diet and to possess information what products are useful at present and what are undesirable.
To pregnant women
As for the first months of pregnancy, there are no contraindications to the use of a crimson dessert. On the contrary, raspberry includes folic acid which is necessary for the correct formation of a nervous tube and a brain at the child.
And here on late terms it is better to refuse the use of this sweet. As we noted, raspberry — strong allergen which can promote development of an allergy or tendency to it in the newborn. Besides there is an opinion that jam can strengthen reductions of a uterus that on this term is absolutely undesirable and it is even dangerous.
It is important! If the pregnant woman very much loves this dessert, or plans to treat it a slight cold, she has to consult surely with the gynecologist.
When feeding by a breast
Because of allergenicity you should not use raspberry jam and to the feeding mothers. All know that red products in the menu — a direct way to development of diathesis in the kid.
Treatment by raspberry jam
To reach effect of treatment by raspberry jam, it is necessary to know how it is correct to apply it. For a start we want to note that as a method of the main therapy, jam and hot drink apply only in mild cases — at insignificant cold, cough, low temperature. Within three days the organism with the good immune system has to develop antibodies to the virus which got into it.
It is possible to help it only, accepting as much as possible warm liquid, filling up with vitamin C and observing a bed rest. However, if symptoms of a catarrhal disease very sharp, then raspberry jam it is possible to use only as additional therapy. At a SARS, flu, the increased body temperature and a headache the best way of simplification of a state is the use of a large number of tea with raspberry jam and an ukutyvaniye in a blanket.
Important! Over 1.5 l of tea from raspberry jam in day are not recommended to be drunk.
On 300-350 ml of a little cooled down boiled water the dessert tablespoon will be required. Before going to bed it is possible to use from two to four cups with breaks 20 minutes. As a rule, already feels morning of the patient much better. Tea needs to be taken only in a warm look, it is so possible to warm up a throat and to remove inflammation. You should not drink hot drink.
How tasty to make raspberry jam: step-by-step recipes
So, you learned about advantage of raspberry jam, and now let's pass from words to business — its cooking. We suggest you to study two popular and simple recipes: with cooking and without cooking.
Without cooking
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of raspberry;
- 1 kg of granulated sugar.
Preparation will require the ripe berry but which did not resing and is not damaged. It is possible to mix several grades.
We cook jam of cold cooking by the following method:
- We wash berries and we dry.
- We fill up with kilogram of sugar (at addition of smaller amount of sugar the storage in the deep freeze will be required).
- We mix a wooden spoon.
- We pound a plastic or silicone masher.
- We leave in such look for four-five hours before full dissolution of sugar. From time to time we mix.
- We sterilize and dry up the jars. We drench covers with boiled water and we dry.
- We spill jam on banks.
- We close covers.
- We send for storage in the fridge.
At storage in the freezer we spill jam on plastic cups and we cover with food wrap.
Important! The jam made by way of cold cooking demands special storage conditions. For a long time without fridge it is impossible to leave it.
At such jam the pleasant crimson aroma remains. It can be used for preparation of tea and pasting on a slice of bread, roll.
With cooking
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of raspberry;
- 800 g of granulated sugar.
It is possible to cook jam according to the following recipe:
- We wash berries and we dry up.
- We wash banks.
- We put a container the microwave for two-three minutes in the mode of full capacity.
- We drench covers with boiled water.
- We mix raspberry with sugar.
- Slightly we pound a masher about three-five minutes.
- We leave for 30 minutes.
- We pour out in a thick-walled high frying pan with a teflon covering or pig-iron.
- We bring to boiling and we cook five-six minutes.
- We switch off fire and we leave for five minutes.
- Accurately we remove a skin at the edges.
- We spill on banks.
- We roll up covers.
- We overturn banks.
- We leave for one hour.
- We place on storage.
Such jam can be used for preparation of tea, pastries: cakes, rolls, puffs, as gravy to fritters, pancakes, cheesecakes.
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Rules of storage of raspberry jam
Of course, the advantage the crimson dessert will keep a long time only in case it is correct to preserve tanks with it. Not boiled thoroughly raspberry is stored in the fridge or the freezer. The cooked jam - five-minute is stored in the cool dry dark place. The term of its validity — one year. Jam which cooks longer can be stored two years. Before starting consumption of jam, it is necessary to be convinced that it did not begin to ferment and did not blossom. The begun to ferment and mouldy product is strictly forbidden to be used. In such look it can be used only for preparation of wine.
Possible harm and contraindications
In small doses and at the use from time to time raspberry jam hardly to someone can strongly do much harm. And here at regular eating and without measure the dessert can provoke allergic reactions, block or release a histamine, becomes the hyperactivity reason at children, to complicate breath. It can also cause disorders of digestion. Therefore with care should treat a dessert the people inclined to an allergy and that who has a hemophilia.
Also, as it contains quite large number of calories, the persons suffering from excess weight need to eat it in the minimum quantities or is not at all. It is clear, that jam with sugar is a taboo for diabetics. It is better for them to give preference to a dessert on fructose. Can be harmful and such property of raspberry as ability to dilute blood — is possible discovery of bleeding, or a problem with blood clotting.
Jam or the frozen raspberry?
It is the best of all to apply the fresh berries ground or simply frozen with sugar to treatment. In such a way it is possible to achieve maintaining the greatest number of valuable elements. To make the frozen berry much quicker and it is practically possible. On kilogram of fresh stone fruit 700 g of granulated sugar will be required. To mix ingredients in one capacity by means of a wooden spoon. Then to place berries in plastic containers or packages for freezing and to apply to them the way of shock freezing — at it in raspberry will remain most of all useful substances. So there is a lot of recipes for medical berry — you should choose only what recipe and a way of storage suit you more. Not all can brag of freezers of large volume or capacious storerooms and cellars.
Raspberry jam — useful medicine and tasty delicacy
Thus, raspberry jam is a most tasty dessert which besides has a number of useful properties. The main thing from them — first aid at cold: leading to the increased sweating, promotes decrease in body temperature and removal of hazardous substances. However even such at first sight harmless delicacy at the uncontrollable use can conceal harm, raspberry is serious allergen. Therefore before resorting to its eating it is regular, it is necessary to be convinced that you are not included into the list of persons who should not eat this dessert. Anyway, the advantage for health will be only in case a product to use without fanaticism.