Dried fruits – the real panacea from the majority of problems with health. Content of vitamins and minerals in them more than is big, and often is even much higher, than in the same amount of fresh fruit.
Useful substances which are contained in dried fruits
Each type of dried fruits, whether it be dried apricots, dried cherry or prunes, raisin or dried mangoes, has the unique chemical composition and, nevertheless, high content in them is invariable:
- vitamin A; - group B vitamins;
- PP vitamin; - vitamin C (at the correct zasushivaniye);
- potassium; - gland; - phosphorus; - sodium; - magnesium; - iodine; - calcium and also organic acids (apple, oxalic, lemon, salicylic, etc.), glucose and fructose, celluloses, pectins, mono - and disaccharides.
The small handful of fragrant dried fruits eaten every day is quite enough for completion of deficiency of vitamins and minerals in an organism and the essential amendment of health in general. Dried fruits will help you to get rid of avitaminosis, anemia, a depression and bad mood.
Dried fruits and their medicinal properties
Vitamin-rich raisin of group B has ability to strengthen nervous system and means is applied as the soothing, removing stress and fatigue. High content in this sukhofrukt of magnesium and potassium does it very useful to people with cardiovascular diseases. At regular consumption of raisin the conductivity of impulses improves, the myocardium becomes stronger, sokratitelny work of a cardiac muscle returns to normal.
In raisin contains in 10 times more of substances, useful to a human body, than in fresh grapes.
Useful properties of raisin are used in traditional medicine for treatment of diseases of kidneys, eyes and heart, a hair loss, violations of digestion, fevers, a hypertension. To pregnant women with low hemoglobin and deficiency of iron it is shown there is a raisin. Mix of raisin and dried apricots – remarkable folk remedy for strengthening of inflow of milk and improvement of a lactation at nursing mothers. Dried apricots as it contains the potassium salts normalizing blood pressure, improving work of heart is exclusively useful to prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The people who had a heart attack are recommended to mix dried apricots with honey and other dried fruit (prunes, a fig, raisin) and to daily use this mix in small amounts. To the pregnant women and people having anemia, dried apricots is shown how the means increasing hemoglobin level in blood. Besides, rendering light laxative effect, dried apricots softly cleans intestines, normalizes its vermicular movement. Dried apricots also helps a human body to get rid of slags, toxins, radionuclides, compounds of heavy metals. Prunes are applied in traditional medicine as the bile-expelling, diuretic and normalizing exchange processes means. It has to be included in a diet of those who want to lose extra kilos and to restore the health. It is useful for hypertensive persons to drink prunes compote – it promotes lowering of arterial pressure. Dried fruit decoction is also useful at chronic locks and many other diseases of digestive tract. Vitamin-rich and minerals prunes are recommended to be used at anemia and avitaminosis. Its regular use improves complexion and accelerates growth of hair. Prunes are known as the natural immunomodulator which is increasing the resilience of an organism and slowing down aging. The prunes extract interfering reproduction of colibacillus, stafilokokk and salmonellas is applied as antibacterial means during epidemics of infectious diseases. Before the use prunes need to be washed thoroughly: before sale dried fruits often chemicalize special for extension of term of their storage. Dried fruits of a fig favorably influence an intestines vermicular movement, help an organism to be cleaned from toxins and slags and to get rid of locks. The antioxidant substances which are contained in this sukhofrukt purify blood from cholesteric plaques, clean and strengthen small vessels and capillaries, help to make them less permeable. Broth from dried figs has good febrifugal and sudorific effect at catarrhal diseases.
The dried fruits of a fig boiled in milk are applied in traditional medicine to treatment of a severe cough, pneumonia and whooping cough.
Improvement of quality of blood, increase in level of hemoglobin and disposal of anemia are promoted by mineral salts of magnesium, potassium and iron with which the dried figs are rich.
The highly nourishing dried figs will help to gain quickly body weight that who wants to recover.
The advantage of a fig and for nervous system is considerable: it perfectly normalizes its activity, increases working capacity, improves mood.
Dried fruits in cookery
In cookery dried fruits are used for preparation of the most various dishes: from them cook compotes and fruit soups, do kvass, fruit drink and domestic wine. Do a tasty stuffing for pastries of dried fruits of the hostess, add to porridges, casseroles, cakes, cakes, cookies, ice cream and other desserts. Dried fruits also are well combined with meat. Many people of the world have meat dishes with dried fruits, for example, the Bukhara pilaf with raisin, chicken with dried apricots and prunes.