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!
Crumbed oat & coconut chicken meat balls served with a strawberry sweet chilli sauce
Ingredients: (Serves 8) Ingredients: 500 g chicken mince, free range Salt & Pepper to taste 15 ml spring onion, finely chopped ½ cup rolled oats, blended into fine crumbs ½ cup desiccated coconut 60 ml
No bake strawberry cheese cake
Ingredients: (serves 10-12) 150 g butter melted, plus extra to butter the tin with 300g digestive biscuits, ginger biscuits are great! 650g full cream, smooth cream cheese 100g icing sugar (add 75g if you want
Halo Strawberry Cheesecake Cups
Ingredients: (serves 10) 500g Large fresh strawberries, washed & hulled 100ml Cream cheese (full cream) 50ml Heavy thick cream 15ml Castor sugar Serving options: Fresh mint Method Mix the cream cheese and heavy cream together
Strawberry & Date Mince Pies
Ingredients: (serves 6) 250g Fresh strawberries, washed, hulled & sliced 5ml Brandy essence ½ cup Dates, cut into small pieces 2-5ml Cinnamon powder 2-5ml Nutmeg 1 roll Puff pastry 1 Egg Garnish: castor sugar Method
Strawberry Rice Crispy Treat Bars
Ingredients: (serves 8) 50g Farm butter 300g Mini marshmallows 200g Strawberry flavoured rice crispies 1x pack (8g) freeze-dried strawberries Method Prepare a square dish, about 5cm high with baking paper, spray the baking paper with
White Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
Ingredients: (serves 6) 250g Fresh strawberries, rinsed 100g White melting chocolate Gold & Silver edible sprinkles Method Make sure the strawberries are lightly dried on a paper towel. Melt the white chocolate over a double
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!