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!
Strawberry Basil Ice Cream Blocks
Ingredients: (serves 6-8) 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 can evaporated milk 1 1/2 cups full cream milk 2 tablespoons sugar 1/8 teaspoon pink Himalayan salt, fine 450g fresh strawberries washed and sliced 2 tablespoons
Strawberry Wrapped Rice Paper Spring-Rolls
Ingredients: (serves 6-8) 350g fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced into any shape you prefer ½ cup fresh spring onions, chopped 1 cup Black pepper feta, cut into small blocks 15 ml Lemon zest ¼ teaspoon
Puff-Pastry Roll with Strawberry & Mint Cream
Ingredients: (serves 6) 1 store-bought puff-pastry roll 15ml butter, melted 200ml fresh cream whisked until stiff peaks form 45ml plain cream cheese 125ml strawberries, washed, hulled and chopped 30ml fresh mint, cut into thin slivers
Giant Strawberry Cookies
Ingredients: (serves 8) 1 cup dark brown sugar ½ cup salted butter, @ room temperature 1 large free-range egg ¼ cup full cream milk 15 ml vanilla essence or 2 ml vanilla pod seeds 2
Strawberry Cordial
Ingredients: (yields about 1 ½ cup) 1kg fresh strawberries, washed and hulled ½ cup organic brown sugar ½ - 1 cup of filtered water ¼ - ½ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice Method Place the
Strawberry Cobbler
Ingredients: (Serves 6-8) 1 cup brown sugar ½ cup salted butter softened 1 large free-range egg ¼ cup full cream milk 15ml vanilla essence 1 ½ cup cake flour (also works with gluten-free cake flour)
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!