Northerners love this sweet berry. It is used in marinades, jam is prepared. It's amazing that one berry grows on the stem. Collect cloudberries from the middle of summer to the end. Berry-drupes have a diameter of only 1, 5 cm, a special incense, color, taste, they are almost transparent, like amber.
If we talk about Russia, there cloudberry is found in the Far East, Siberia and the European part. Siberian morocco grows in swampy places. Often, its neighbors are: cowberry, ledum, sphagnum moss. In these places you can always meet partridges.
The yield of cloudberry is approximately 1000 kg / ha. Her leaves are harvested until the end of June, and the roots - the latest in the autumn.
Composition and useful properties.
Mature cloudberry in its composition contains protein, sugar, fiber, citric and malic acids, vitamins C, A, PP, B (whole group), iron, potassium, phosphorus, anthocyanins, cobalt, tannic and pectin substances.
In 100 grams of cloudberry vitamin C four times more than the average orange. Provitamin A is much more than in carrots. Morochka is valuable for everyone who wants to have healthy children (in particular, women), because it is the main source of natural tocopherols. They are necessary for a successful pregnancy and successful delivery.
40 kcal in a hundred garmons of these berries is an energy value.
Frozen in cooking.
From time immemorial, cloudberries were brought to the royal table in Russia. Fresh or wet berries.
Dishes are very diverse: jam, compotes, jelly, juices, kvass, fruit drinks, lemonade. From cloudberries do even alcoholic beverages (liquors and cocktails). Very tasty desserts! Especially jams and jelly ...
Healing properties of cloudberry.
Moroshka is a real storehouse of medicinal qualities for the human body. The northerners say: "Whoever stores cloudberries, he does not know the disease". This is not only a valuable food plant, but also a medicinal plant. It has everything: both valuable properties, and incense, and taste. Moroshka can not only guarantee health, but also a slim figure. It is rich in potassium, so it can be used for many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as well as the cardiovascular system. Cloudberry properties are also known that are used for poisoning with salts of metals (heavy), for detoxification, as an antiscorbutic, diuretic and antiplatelet agent. This berry is also used to treat burns and skin diseases.
Cloudberry plays a very important role in dietary and therapeutic nutrition. Its fruits are diaphoretic, antimicrobial, astringent, antispasmodic and hemostatic. These berries are applicable for thirst and are irreplaceable for colds.
Roots and leaves are used as a diuretic under an hour of nephrolithiasis. The decoction is used for beriberi, elementary metabolism, malaria, cold. Leafy infusions - to stop internal bleeding.
Moroshka is an indispensable tool for fighting scurvy (because of the high concentration of vitamin C). There is even information about how cloudberry contributed to the healing of skin cancer.
The Khanty greased the leaves of cloudberry with the fat of fat, applied to wounds that fester. This accelerates the release of pus and promotes healing. At least twice a day you have to change the leaves. Even with scabies it helps.
Moroshka in cosmetics.
It is thanks to the unique healing properties, this berry has become an exceptionally indispensable component of medicinal cosmetics. You can safely say that cloudberry is part of shampoos, face and body creams, gels, foams, liquid soap.
This berry is rich in vitamin C, so it nourishes, refreshes, tones up hair and skin. Protects the skin from the negative effects of high and low temperatures. Helps to acquire a good figure.
For dry and sensitive skin - it's just salvation. Fatty acids that are part of the cloudberry, contribute to a more moisturizing of the skin, restore the protective barrier, relieve the feeling of "tightness".
Phytosterols, carotenoids, vitamin E slow down the aging process of the skin, protecting it from ultraviolet radiation.
Cosmetic products, based on cloudberry, effectively restore and moisturize the skin of both the body and face. The latter, in turn, becomes smooth, delicate, elastic and velvety to the touch. Using cloudberries as a meal, you strengthen not only the hair and nails, but the entire body.
Contraindications.
Gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, exacerbation of gastritis and increased acidity are those diseases in which it is not recommended to eat cloudberry berries in food. Juice can not be drunk with gout, and also with certain kidney diseases. And, of course, with individual intolerance to the fruit of this berry. In the end, if you have any chronic diseases, starting to take any medications, consult a doctor, in advance. The same applies to the use of products such as cloudberry berries.