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, quinoa & blueberry salad!
Ingredients: 250 g fresh strawberries, washed and sliced Fancy lettuce ½ cup dry quinoa 1 ½ cup water 5ml sea salt 125 g Fresh Blueberries Fresh spring onion Fresh mint leaves Mediterranean cucumber, sliced Fresh
Frozen Yogurt & Strawberry Bark
Ingredients: 1 cup strawberries washed, hulled and sliced 3 cups full cream yogurt ¼ cup honey or maple syrup 15 ml vanilla essence Extras to add: Toasted coconut shavings Raisins or dried cranberries Chocolate chips
Strawberry fondue!
Ingredients: 250 g Frozen strawberries, thawed ¼ cup Fresh cream 5 ml Corn flour 5 ml Lemon juice Little cups with fresh fruit & bits of cake Method Place the strawberries, cream, corn flour and
Strawberry Parfait with marshmallows
Ingredients 1 cup Marshmallows, small 200g Sugar 500 g Fresh strawberries, washed & hulled 6 Eggs, 4x yolks and 2x whole 2 Cups fresh cream Fresh strawberries to serve Method Line a narrow bread tin
Upside down strawberry & poppyseed cake
Ingredients: 2 cups cake flour, sifted 2 cups brown sugar ½ cup poppy seeds 2 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 2 large free-range eggs 1 tsp sea salt 1 cup buttermilk (or full
Strawberry Ice Cream sandwiches
Ingredients: (serves 10) Chocolate chip cookies, store bought Strawberry Swirl Ice cream Frozen strawberries Method: Buy the best quality home baked chock-chip cookies you can find. I bought an Italian strawberry Ice cream. Scoop Ice
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!
Strawberries – the myths busted, and truths revealed
Are you wondering how to tell the truths from the myths regarding strawberries? Allow us to share some of the most common myths, and the real truths behind them. Myth: Strawberries are best picked just
Strawberries and your iron levels
If you follow a vegetarian or vegan diet you probably know how difficult it is to maintain iron levels. Children, adolescents and women of reproductive age, particularly during pregnancy, are most at risk of iron
8 Reasons why
Eating only 8 strawberries each day, can lead to improved health and vitality. Here are the 8 reasons why: 1 Strawberries are crammed with nutrients that are good for you, and a serving of
Strawberries and Nitrates
Our much love and brightly coloured strawberries may be one of the top fruit sources of dietary nitrates. The body also produces nitrates which are secreted into saliva, but roughly 80% are dietary nitrates from
Strawberries, the super fruit that is not really a berry
Strawberries are loved across the world, and for good reason too. Today we share some interesting facts about these juicy little fruits to broaden your strawberry knowledge. You never know when these may come in
Strawberries help to battle the bulge
If you are on a weight loss diet, adding strawberries could prove to be highly effective in beating the bulge. Here are 5 reasons why strawberries should be included in your diet to loose weight