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!
Honey & Ginger Strawberry Pie with an Oat Crust
Ingredients: Crust 200 g Oat flour 175 g Gluten-Free Cake flour 55 g Castor sugar 250 g Butter, cut into cubes 165 ml Ice water 60 ml Apple cider vinegar Optional: use any other cake
Chocolate Ganache tart with butter & mint roasted strawberries
Ingredients: Crust 150g Chocolate cookies, crushed 2 tbs cocoa powder 80 g hemp flour 80 g flax powder 185 g oat flour 150 g butter, cubed Pinch of pink Himalayan salt 4-5 tbs ice water
Creamy Rice Pudding with an orange strawberry compote
Ingredients 240g Short grain white rice 150g Castor sugar 1 Vanilla bean, split, seeds scraped 1 Cinnamon quill Orange zest 5 Cups full cream milk, plus 1x extra cup of milk Optional: Thickened cream to
Strawberry Blue cheese cream cake
Ingredients: Crust: 200g Digestive biscuits 100g Butter Filling: 350g Cream cheese, smooth 90g Blue cheese 150 ml Fresh cream 10 ml Fresh rosemary, chopped 5 ml Ground black pepper 2 ml Pink Himalayan salt 5x
AMASI chocolate mud with a cinnamon infused strawberry topping
Ingredients (makes 10) Strawberry sauce 125 g Fresh or frozen strawberries chopped 45 ml Granulated sugar 1x Cinnamon quill 10 ml Fresh lemon juice Amasi Chocolate mud 4 TBS Sugar 3 TBS Corn flour 2
Plant-based Strawberry tarts
Ingredients: (Serves 4-5 mini tarts) Crust 3 Tbs Coconut oil 3 Tbs Cocoa powder 2 Cups rolled oats ½ Cup dates ¼ Cup water Filling 400 ml Coconut cream ¼ Cup strawberry home-made sauce (for
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!
Kids can be strawberries’ biggest fans
We are strawberry lovers and it is not only because it tastes so good, but also because they make us feel so good!
Thumbs Up from the Strawberry
We are strawberry lovers and it is not only because it tastes so good, but also because they make us feel so good! The fruit is a red berry, and it is believed that the
Celebrate with strawberries!
Last week, the recipe of a Rustic Strawberry Winter Cake was shared. This inspired a (virtual) gathering of some friends and family, in a time where everything is so different, yet somehow still the same.
Strawberry Honey Butter
Increasing the nutritional value of butter with strawberries!
Super Dooper Strawberry -Energy
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Are Frozen Strawberries Healthy?
Valuable vitamins, minerals and antioxidants are preserved when berries are frozen within hours of being picked using fast freezing technology! Frozen fruit should always be packed at the peak of ripeness to ensure full development of nutritional values.