Raspberry is a wonderful fruit full of antioxidant benefits and many other nutritional properties. Know all its qualities in this article.
Among the foods rich in vitamin C that, currently, we can consume daily as they stand out for being as healthy as they are natural, we find different fruits that are beneficial to health, such as oranges or, on this occasion, raspberries.
Not surprisingly, a cup of raspberries provide 88% of the amount of this vitamin that our body needs. Regarding this vitamin, raspberries provide a very important antioxidant capacity, capable of neutralizing free radicals, and helping us to prevent the appearance of cancer.
Therefore, knowing the different properties of raspberries is always useful and appropriate. But let’s go in parts.
What is raspberry?
Raspberries are the fruits of the raspberry, a wonderful perennial shrub that can reach 2.5 meters in height, and baptized with the scientific name of Rubus idaeus (a species belonging to the genus Rubus, native to both Europe and North Asia.).
As for the raspberry itself, they basically consist of a delicious red fruit and small size, with a rounded appearance and whose skin is highly characteristic, since it has a rather velvety appearance.
Its pulp stands out for being tremendously aromatic, while its flavor actually tends to be rather between bittersweet and acid.
Although it can be consumed whole and raw, thus becoming in fact one of the most common forms of consumption, it is also common to use it in the kitchen for the preparation of jams, preserves and jellies.
What are the properties of raspberry?
High content of natural antioxidants
The raspberries are rich in vitamin C, a vitamin with important antioxidant activity, which helps in preventing the onset of cancer.
For this reason, it is a fruit with anticancer benefits, while helping to neutralize the negative effects of free radicals, preventing premature aging of our cells.
Not only, as we will know in the later section, for its content in this vitamin but also for its contribution in bioflavonoids.
Useful in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases
It is also useful for preventing cardiovascular disease. And, in addition, it contains an important anti-inflammatory activity.
In fact, its regular consumption helps especially when it comes to fighting high levels of both cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood. And, in addition, it helps reduce high blood pressure while improving blood circulation.
Helps eliminate toxins
Eating raspberries regularly helps us to detoxify our body in a totally natural way, being useful when it comes to preventing the appearance of certain degenerative diseases that can arise as a result of the accumulation of toxins in our body.
Ideal for improving vision
Although this quality is more recognized in other foods, such as carrots, the reality is that did you know that raspberries naturally help prevent degenerative eye diseases??
This is the case, for example, of diseases such as glaucoma or cataracts. And all this thanks precisely to its contribution in carotenes, which in our body are transformed into vitamin A.
Ideal for pregnant women
As you will see below, 100 grams of raspberries provide around 32 mg. of vitamin B9, also known as folic acid, an essential vitamin for both pregnancy and the development of the fetus during gestation to be normal.
This is because folic acid is essential for the formation of new cells and for the production of proteins.
Nutritional benefits of raspberries
As we mentioned in the previous section, there is no doubt that raspberries stand out especially for their high content of vitamin C. In fact, 100 grams of raspberries provide around 32 mg. of vitamin C. A vitamin, incidentally, essential for our body, with a recognized antioxidant action.
To this quality we must add the presence in its composition of the wonderful bioflavonoids, with equally antioxidant action.
Nutritional information for raspberries
100 grams of raspberries provide:
- Energy: 49 kcal.
- Carbohydrates: 5.20 gr.
- Proteins: 1.40 gr.
- Fats: 1.90 gr.
- Fiber: 4.68 gr.
- Minerals: calcium (40 mg), zinc (0.36 mg), phosphorus (44 mg), iron (1.00 mg), magnesium (30 mg), manganese (0.40 mg), potassium (170 mg), selenium (1.30 ug), sodium (3.00 mg) and iodine (0.60 ug).
- Vitamins: vitamin B1 (0.068 mg), B2 (0.050 mg), B3 (0.300 mg), B6 (0.075 mg), B9 (32 mg), vitamin C (32 mg).
