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 & Coconut Peda’s (A delicious Indian sweet)
Ingredients Strawberry compote 200g fresh or frozen strawberries chopped 20 ml sugar 10 ml corn flour 5-10 ml fresh lemon juice Pedas 30 ml butter or Ghee ½ cup warm milk ½ cup Oat flour
Strawberries served with a peanut butter & cinnamon sauce
Ingredients: (serves 5) 10x fresh strawberries, washed, hulled and cut in halve 15 ml smooth peanut butter (preferably organic) ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder 10 ml raw honey Boiling hot water Optional: add a pinch of
Strawberry flapjacks served with liver pate & blue cheese
Ingredients: Flapjack recipe: 2 cups cake flour 20 ml baking powder 2 ml salt 60 ml sugar 2 large eggs 250 ml milk, full cream 20 ml butter, melted 10x fresh strawberries, washed, hulled and
Strawberry turnovers
(Strawberry-jam filled phyllo pastry) Ingredients (serves 4) 2 cups washed and chopped fresh strawberries ½ cup brown sugar ¼ cup water 15 ml corn flour/starch ¼ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon vanilla essence 8 sheets phyllo
Strawberry, feta and basil snack-stacks
Ingredients: 125 g medium size fresh strawberries (room temperature) 2x wheels of feta, cut into small blocks Fresh basil leaves 10x calamata olives, pitted and halved Olive oil Tooth picks Method: Wash the strawberries and
Avocado mousse with a strawberry salsa
Ingredients 2 large ripe avocados (or two tubs shop bought guacamole) 1 lemon, grated zest (skin) 100g full-fat cream cheese Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 teaspoons unflavoured powdered gelatin 1 egg white (alternative
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!
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