The South African Strawberry Growers’ Association
Choose a Healthy Lifestyle, Pick Strawberries!
The heart-shaped silhouette of the strawberry is the first clue that this fruit is good for you. These potent little packages protect your heart, increase HDL (good) cholesterol, lower your blood pressure, and guard against cancer.
Packed with Goodness
Packed with vitamins, fiber, and particularly high levels of antioxidants known as polyphenols, strawberries are a sodium-free, fat-free, cholesterol-free, low-calorie food. They are among the top 20 fruits in antioxidant capacity and are a good source of manganese and potassium. Just one serving – about eight strawberries – provides more vitamin C than an orange.
Fresh Recipes
Looking for a fun way to expand your culinary skills? Look no further! Strawberries can be used in many different ways and we have just the ideas you’ve been looking for!
Tangy Strawberry BBQ Sauce
Ingredients: (yields about 1 ½ cup) 2 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced ½ cup chili sauce 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce or soy sauce 1 teaspoon lemon zest 2 tablespoons
Roasted Strawberries & Spicy Pumpkin Soup
Ingredients: (serves 4-6) 1 cup fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced 2 x medium butternuts or any pumpkin, peeled, seeded and cubed 15ml coconut oil 1 x large brown onion, diced 5 ml cumin powder 5ml
Strawberry Mayonnaise
Ingredients 100ml Mayonnaise, good quality store-bought 5x fresh strawberries, hulled and cut into small blocks 10ml grated fresh ginger, or ginger root extract Pinch of salt Optional: Black Pepper Method Cut the strawberries into tiny
Layered Avocado, Malay Curry & Strawberry Tart
Ingredients (serves 4 - 6) 1x roll puff pastry, good quality, preferably made with butter 1 - 2x large ripe avocado, thinly sliced 2 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced 5 - 10ml Cape Malay
Toasted Strawberry & Sweet Gouda Waffles with Chives & Chilli
Ingredients (serves 4 ) 4 - 8 waffles (home-baked or store-bought) 6 - 10 fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced 250ml sweet gouda cheese, grated 15ml chives, finely chopped 4 - 8 whole chilli’s Method Preheat
Mini Strawberry and Spinach Salads with Bacon Wrapped Goat’s Cheese
Ingredients (serves 4 ) 1 cup fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced 1x roll Chèvre (goats cheese), sliced into 8 rings 8-10 streaky bacon slices Organic spinach baby leaves Optional: roll the goats cheese roll in
Did You Know?
This member of the rose family isn’t really a fruit or a berry but the enlarged receptacle of the flower. Choose medium-sized berries that are firm, plump, and deep red; once picked, they don’t ripen further. First cultivated in ancient Rome, strawberries are now the most popular berry fruit in the world. In provincial France, they were regarded as an aphrodisiac. These red gems may be good for your heart in more ways than one.
Nutritional Benefits
Not only are strawberries delicious to eat, but they also come packet with goodness for you and your family. Browse through or Nutritional Benefits blog, and find even more reasons to make strawberries part of your daily intake!
The Colour Red, Strawberries and Pure Love
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Increasing the nutritional value of butter with strawberries!
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Increasing the nutritional value of butter with strawberries!
Celebrate with strawberries!
Increasing the nutritional value of butter with strawberries!
Strawberry Honey Butter
Increasing the nutritional value of butter with strawberries!
Super Dooper Strawberry -Energy
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