Unlock the Health Benefits of Cherries: The Delicious Way to Promote Skin, Liver, and Eye Health, Aid Weight Loss, and Fight Inflammation
Eating cherries can have numerous benefits for your health, including protecting your skin, liver, and eyesight. They can also assist in weight loss and have diuretics, purifying, and anti-inflammatory effects.
When they arrive, you shouldn’t waste them: unfortunately, they don’t last long, but even small quantities (a standard portion is around 150 grams) can work wonders for our body, starting with the possibility of making us lose weight.
Positive impacts of cherries
Losing weight with cherries: not only is it possible, but it’s also a very healthy solution, considering all the benefits this fruit brings, and it’s really simple. Just a few, 25-30, a day, on an empty stomach and with a certain continuity, and the diet is done. In fact, cherries satisfy the desire for sweets and are low in calories. At the same time, thanks to cherries, you will have purified your blood, drained your liver and improved the functionality of your joints. The pulp of this magical fruit contains sorbitol which has laxative effects even in small doses.
Variety of cherries
With their bright red color, cherries are the fruit of a tree that belongs to the Rosaceae family and probably comes from Asia. In particular, there are two main species of cherry trees: Prunus avium also called sweet cherry and Prunus cerasus called sour cherry.
The sour cherry instead produces three different varieties: cherries with an intense red color and used above all for the production of syrups and juices, marasca cherries used instead by the canning industry to produce liqueurs and, finally, sour cherries, very sweet and generally to be eaten fresh or as preserves.
When to pick up cherries
The cherries are harvested from mid-May to the end of June and only when they are ripe: once detached from the tree they no longer ripen.
Properties of cherries
It is now a fact that fruit is good for our body but perhaps few know that cherries hide countless important properties for our health. To begin with, cherries are rich in vitamins C and A which help protect eyesight and contribute to the proper functioning of the immune system.
They also contain folic acid, calcium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus and flavonoids, substances that are important for fighting free radicals. Purifying, detoxifying, diuretic and anti-rheumatic, cherries also help prevent numerous pathologies such as arteriosclerosis, renal dysfunction and cellular aging and even pathologies such as Alzheimer’s.
They are anti-inflammatory (research by the Human Nutrition Research Center, in California), antioxidants (Portuguese study) and celery gout attacks, by lowering uric acid values.
Healing properties of cherries
Cherries are also a decidedly non-wasteful type of fruit: with the peduncles, it is in fact possible to make decoctions and herbal teas useful for purifying the kidneys and calming cystitis. In the first case, just bring a liter of water to a boil and then dip a handful of dried cherry stalks in it.
Leave to infuse for about 10 minutes and then drink the herbal tea. In case of cystitis instead, prepare an infusion by boiling a handful of broken wild cherry peduncles in a liter of water for 10 minutes. Filter and drink two cups a day away from meals.
How many cherries can you eat per day?
One leads to another: it’s an old rule about cherries and how much they stimulate our appetite. To the point that in many cases they are used to making a real diet based on this very pleasant fruit. But there is a limit, and you shouldn’t overdo it, otherwise, you risk wasting all the benefits of cherries.
If we don’t eat other fruit, we can even reach 70 cherries a day, always divided into moderate portions throughout the day, starting with breakfast. If, on the other hand, we are used to eating other fruit, we try not to go beyond 25 cherries a day. In general, the limit is 200 grams. Reminding us that, due to their characteristics, cherries have a laxative effect and consumed in excess can cause gastrointestinal problems
Cherries: precious allies for our beauty
But cherries are not only perfect allies of our health but also of our beauty. Thanks to the presence of carotenes and mineral salts, they are in fact the ideal fruit to protect the skin from the sun and obtain a natural and homogeneous tan. Their pulp is also an excellent revitalizer for the skin of the face especially if it is irritated. If, on the other hand, your skin is oily, try this cherry mask, rich in vitamins, healthy and low cost: take some cherries, remove their pits and then crush them and spread them on your face and neck.
Almost calorie-free, cherries can also be consumed in the context of low-calorie diets and in the diet of diabetics.
