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!
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
Delicious strawberry custard slice
Ingredients (serves 4 ) 2 sheets butter puff pastry, sliced in half 2 cups fresh strawberries, green tops removed and quartered 15 ml icing sugar for dusting 15 ml lemon juice 1 cup good quality
Crème Fraiche Strawberry Tartlets
Ingredients (serves 4 ) Crust 1 cup Gluten-free cake flour or normal flour 3 tbsp sugar ¼ tsp salt 6 tbsp cold butter, diced 2 tbsp coconut oil, hard ¼ cup ice cold water Filling
Rustic Winter Strawberry Cake
Ingredients (serves 8-10) 3 cups Gluten-free cake flour 10 ml baking powder 5 ml baking soda ½ tsp salt 1 cup sugar 1 cup olive oil 60 ml apple cider vinegar 1 ½ cups milk
Roasted Orange Flavoured Strawberries
Ingredients (serves 4 ) 2 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced ¼ - ½ cup toasted brown sugar (optional) 10 ml lemon juice Pinch of pink Himalayan salt ½ empty vanilla pod (from a previous
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!