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!
Ginger, Cardamom-Strawberry Yogurt Milkshake
Ingredients: (serves 2) 500ml Full cream Greek yogurt 30ml Brown sugar 30ml Sumac (ground berries with a tart lemon-like flavour) 15ml Freshly grated ginger 1 Cardamom pod seeds 250g Large strawberries, washed and hulled Serving
The Strawberry Feast Bowl
Ingredients: (serves 1) 2 Slices brioche, toasted 3-4 Strawberries, washed, hulled & halved ½ Cup blueberries 1 Meringue, broken a bit 100ml custard Garnish: edible flowers Method Toast the brioche slices. Break the meringue into
Coconut-Strawberry Ice Cream Pie
Ingredients: (serves 6-8) Crust 1 cup desiccated coconut 170 g digestive biscuits ½ cup of coconut oil ¾ pink Himalayan salt Filling 1-litre vanilla ice cream 350 g fresh strawberries, washed, hulled and halved 15
Panna Cotta Strawberry Dessert
Ingredients: (serves 6) 250g fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced 1/3 cup sugar 2 tablespoons water 1 ½ cups heavy whipping cream 1 cup milk 5 ml agar-agar or gelatin (if not vegetarian) ¼ cup of
Strawberry Cups Filled with Pecan Nut Pâté
Ingredients: (serves 4) 250 g large strawberries, washed and hulled ½ cup pecan nuts 30 ml macadamia oil 30 ml raw honey ¼ teaspoon salt 1 garlic clove Fresh rosemary leaves Serving options: Seed crackers,
Strawberry Filled Biscotti’s
Oreo cookie ingredients: ¾ cup oat flour (to make your own oat flour: blend rolled oats until flour consistency) 1/3 cup cornflour ¼ cup cacao powder ½ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ cup
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!