These berries and autumn fruits reduce cholesterol, strengthen blood vessels and help lose weight – Nutrition

In autumn, you will want to treat yourself to the ripe, delicious fruits that nature generously gives us. In addition to the palette of taste, they help the body in solving various problems, Sports.kz reports with reference to Doctorpiter.ru.

Do you have trouble sleeping and your blood pressure is rising? Eat a thorn. If you want to increase vitality and maintain harmony, pay attention to quince. In autumn, the choice of tasty and healthy berries and fruits is the widest.

Anna Verbovskaya, nutritionist, therapist, endocrinologist, told Dr. Peter how these or these fruits can help.

Quince

It will help you maintain a slim figure and increase your energy. Quince contains sugar due to fructose, as well as dietary fiber due to pectin; it provides the body with iron, beta-carotene, vitamins C, E, PP, malic and citric acids, tartronic acid (this is what prevents the conversion of carbohydrates into fat). Also useful for spastic colitis, flatulence, constipation.

With the small amount of sugar, quince can be eaten up to 300 g per day. It can be raw, baked, used as pie filling, added to meat dishes, but be sure to remove the seeds from it.

Hawthorn

It will improve your sleep and normalize blood pressure. Contains up to 10% sugar, flavonoids 0.25-0.5%, saponins 12-180 mg, glycosides, phytosterols, carotene up to 2 mg per 100 g, choline, tannins, malic acid, citric acid, tartaric acid, ascorbic acid and other organic acids. You should not eat more than 100 g of hawthorn per day, because if it is taken often in large doses, it can cause bradycardia, lower blood pressure, and drowsiness, although the results are very tasty. It is best to use hawthorn in tinctures and tea brewing.

Cowberry

The berry will help with inflammatory kidney diseases, edema and hypertension. Lingonberries are full of vitamin C, beta-carotene, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and iron. Also, due to the content of benzoic acid, lingonberries can stay in water and air for a long time and not spoil. Lingonberries are useful for use both fresh and in the form of jellies, fruit drinks, juices, compotes, and also in pickled form. You can eat 200-300 g per day without harm to your health.

Grapes

Prohibited for diabetics and obese people because it contains a lot of sugar and fructose. 10 berries contain 10 g of carbohydrates – that’s 1.5 tablespoons of sugar! And remember, raisins are dried grapes, the fructose and sugar content remains the same. But grapes also contain potassium, calcium, magnesium, vitamins C, PP, group B, flavonoids, so they are useful for stomach ulcers. A healthy person is allowed to eat 100-150 g per day without harm to health.

Fig

It helps with constipation and improves bowel function. Figs contain dietary fiber (insoluble fiber), organic acids, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and iron. It contains pectin, a type of soluble fiber that helps lower cholesterol. However, figs are very high in calories and contain a lot of sugar, which means that you have to be careful if you have diabetes, gout or obesity.

The fact is that figs contain a lot of fructose; it is from it that, to a large extent, purines are synthesized, especially with a genetic predisposition to gout. Conclusion: even a healthy person should not eat more than 5-6 figs per day.

Colin

Useful for various internal bleeding. Viburnum is rich in tannins, contains a lot of vitamin C, even more than citrus fruits, and also contains manganese, zinc, pectin, organic acids (acetic, formic, caprylic). There are sweet and semi-sweet types of viburnum, but it is the bitter-fruity one that has medicinal properties due to the bitter glycoside – viburnin, which has a hemostatic effect. Viburnum decorations are recommended for heavy periods. Viburnum berries are useful for high blood pressure, heart and kidney edema, and due to the high content of vitamin C – for colds.

Viburnum has very little caloric content – it can be used in the form of fruit drinks, fresh or added to tea, because little heat treatment preserves its beneficial properties. You can eat 200 g per day. Caution for peptic ulcers due to high vitamin C content.

Cranberry

Excellent diaphoretic and tonic, excellent natural antibiotic – one of the most useful berries growing in the desert. Cranberries contain carbohydrates, dietary fiber, organic acids, vitamin C, PP, B vitamins, vitamin K, vitamin E, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron. It has a very low calorie content, it is very rich in nutrients, 10% are biological components, 90% are water.

It is due to organic acids that cranberries reduce fever well and have anti-inflammatory properties for urinary tract infections. Cranberries, like lingonberries, contain benzoic acid, so they can be stored for a long time without preservatives. It can lie in the refrigerator for a long time and not spoil from 2 months to six months.

To preserve the medicinal properties of cranberries, it is best to eat them fresh, use them in salads, and drink them as fruit drinks. You can, of course, grind it with sugar, make jam or jelly, but you will gain in calories.

Cranberries should not be eaten by people with kidney stones, because the likelihood of stone formation may be due to the content of oxalic acid, as well as by people who take warfarin (blood thinner): yes vitamin K in cranberries, warfarin antagonist.

You can eat 200-300 g of cranberries per day without harm to your health.

Chokeberry (Chokeberry)

It is good for elastic containers. The berries are rich in vitamins C and PP. Vitamin PP is a set of bioflavonoids: catechin, rutin, citrine, so it dilates blood vessels well, reduces blood pressure, and strengthens the vascular wall. But in large quantities it can increase blood clotting, so it is not recommended to eat more than 100 g per day.

It can be used dried in compotes and heat. You can use fresh juice for high blood pressure, but not more than 50 g per day and be sure to dilute it with water 1:1. It should not be used by people who suffer from peptic ulcers , hypotension, and constipation.

Hip rose

Champion in vitamin C. Rose buds are full of vitamin C, keratin, vitamins PP, B2, K, E, pectin substances, citric and malic acids, essential oils, flavone glycosides, kaempferol and quercetin.

Eating 2-3 fresh rose hips or 10 dried rosehips per day provides the daily requirement for vitamin C. It is best used in the form of infusions and decoctions, teas, as a source of multivitamins and vitamin C – to increase the body’s defenses. diseases, during fatigue, and with weak blood vessels, anemia. Rosehip syrup has choleretic properties. Rosehip seed oil is used not only internally, but also as an external remedy to heal wounds. For health, 200 g per day is enough.