The gooseberry is cultivated from time immemorial. It is tasty and useful berry. Its advantage was appreciated in distant XVII century. Using fresh fruits of gooseberry, it is possible to correct and strengthen the health.
Berries of gooseberry have various biochemical composition of useful substances. Under gentle fragrant thin skin as in ""casket"", vitamins C, carotene are hidden, B1, B2, B9, PP, E, K. So, there is a lot of vitamin E in zheltoplodny grades.
Phaeochrous grades contain in large number anthocyans - substances which come to organism only with food. These biologically active substances-antioxidants, have bactericidal properties and guard the immune system. They also strengthen vessels and capillaries, do not allow their fragility and hemorrhage, similar to vitamin P.
In berries there are a lot of vital minerals. Iron, copper, manganese are necessary for blood formation and are important in prevention and treatment of anemia, and potassium, magnesium are so necessary for our heart. Copper, zinc, phosphorus, calcium participate in exchange processes of organism.
The gooseberry is rich with pectinaceous connections thanks to which it well collects all slags, hazardous and radionukleidny substances, connects and deletes from organism. Serotonin is in berries and serves as barrier to some forms of malignant tumors and also normalizes blood pressure. High pressure - lowers, and low, on the contrary, raises.
The gooseberry is simply necessary for people with excessive completeness, obesity, with problems in violation of exchange processes. Berries will help at chronic locks and other gastrointestinal diseases. Using fresh berries of gooseberry, unhealthy liver, kidneys and bladder, ""are well cleaned"".
On nutritious structure and caloric content the gooseberry does not concede to grapes therefore call it ""northern"" grapes. Of course, to reap crop from bushes of prickly gooseberry not the most pleasant occupation. But, knowing about medical nature of berries, it is possible to forgive this ""prickly"" friend. It is better to use berries fresh, together with fruit stem which is also curative.
Who should not use gooseberry?
As fruits of gooseberry incorporate a lot of acid, for people with stomach ulcer, especially during aggravation, it is not necessary to use it. During diarrhea, at enterokolita it is not necessary to include in the power supply gooseberry because of high content in cellulose fruits too.