Whether it is possible for pregnant women is cherry

Sweet-sour cherry is one of the most favourite delicacies at women. Especially the ladies who are in the family way wish to indulge themselves with tasty berries. However the choice of products during this period has to be the accuratest and careful. Whether pregnant women can use cherry and in what quantities, we will understand article.

Cherry — the juicy, tasty, sweet-sour berry having the low caloric content and existence of a huge range of vitamin and mineral components because of which presence it is often compared to a wild strawberry.

We advise to learn more about advantage of cherry for health of the woman.

The structure of berries is complemented with fructose, glucose, tannins, pectin and starch. Fresh fruits have reduced caloric content: only 52 kcal are the share of 100 g of berries. In turn, dried cherry has the increased power value — up to 300 kcal on 100 g.

It is difficult to overestimate advantage of cherry for pregnant women as it possesses the all-strengthening, sedative, anti-inflammatory, regenerating action and allows to influence positively many systems of an organism in general.

Positive influence of berry is felt throughout the entire period of pregnancy.

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• due to existence of a large amount of ascorbic acid to strengthen the immune system, to increase protective functions of an organism to harmful influences of the external environment;
• thanks to presence at composition of calcium to strengthen a bone and tooth tissue, to promote the correct formation of a skeleton of the kid;
• due to availability of folic acid to normalize functioning of a female reproductive system, to prevent development of defects and pathologies of a fruit;
• to keep an organism in a tone, to adjust work of digestive system and to save from locks;
• to eliminate toxicosis symptoms, to reduce nausea and dizziness.

• to reduce density of blood, to thereby facilitate blood circulation and to save from hypostases;
• to normalize arterial blood pressure;
• to strengthen a stomach vermicular movement;
• to stimulate work of kidneys and an urinogenital system;
• to normalize sugar level in blood;
• it is positive to influence functioning of a cardiovascular system;
• to improve brain activity, to normalize a dream, to save from a depression.

Berries and juice from them are recommended to pregnant women on any terms for disposal of locks. Fruits of a cherry tree are some kind of medical medicine which will help to save women from headaches and migraine, to normalize night rest.

Important! Excess consumption of cherry is capable to cause diarrhea and dehydration.

When eating sweet cherry it is necessary to observe precautionary measures as in certain cases it can do harm to health of pregnant women. In particular, as contraindications to the use of fruits are considered:

• individual intolerance;
• diseases of a stomach and digestive tract in an aggravation stage;
• ulcer and gastritises;
• heavy toxicosis on early terms;
• diabetes.

Important! Berry stones contain dangerous toxic agent in the structure — amigdalin which breaks up in a stomach to hydrocianic acid. Therefore pregnant women are recommended to cook fruit drinks, jam or compotes from the cherry peeled from stones.

The best choice for the woman during pregnancy, certainly, are fresh cherries. They keep all mineral components and active and biological substances, necessary for normal growth and development of an embryo, and allow to fill the shortage of useful elements in an organism of future mother. However in certain cases, when the fresh product is absent or it cannot be used, an excellent alternative will become:

• compotes and teas — berries fill in with water and boil for several minutes, add sugar to taste. Cherry compote perfectly satisfies thirst, renders weak diuretic effect;

Whether you know? The tree of cherry is extremely frost-resistant: it is capable to grow even in the Himalayas.

• fruit drinks from berries are the fruits cleaned from stones, fill in boiled, cooled up to the temperature of 40 °C, water, insist several minutes. Such drink allows to adjust work of a digestive tract, prevents locks, normalizes pressure;
• the frozen cherries — at the correct freezing they keep a maximum of useful properties of fresh berries, can be used as fresh, and as raw materials for compotes, fruit drinks, juice, jam;
• jam — tinned berry has much more a smaller range of useful properties, than fresh, but it is considered a great option in winter time. Such delicacy will be perfectly combined with herbal teas or infusions.

Cherry — useful berry which has great tastes and is supplied with the whole army of useful components. However before entering it into a diet of pregnant women, it is necessary to carry out the test for an allergy and to consult with the doctor.

Whether you know? In ancient times cherry was used as epilepsy medicine.

Kind of strongly there was a wish, you should not use in large numbers of berry, health of the kid, but not culinary whims of future mother is on the first place.