What do raspberries look like? Raspberry is a shrub, 1-2 meters high, tomentose pubescent when young, sparsely prickly. Leaflets 3-7, sometimes with 3 leaflets on flowering branches, often 5-7 leaflets on infertile branches, long ovate or elliptic, terminal leaflet often ovate, sometimes lobed, 3-8 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, apical short acuminate, base rounded, terminal leaflet base subcordate, glabrous or sparsely pilose above, densely gray-white tomentose below, irregularly coarsely serrate or biserrate at the margin. Petiole 3-6 cm long, terminal petiolule ca. 1 cm long, both tomentose pubescent and sparsely spiny, stipules linear, pubescent.
The raspberry is a woody plant of the genus Hibiscus in the family Rosaceae, but also a fruit with a sweet and sour taste, and barbed thorns on the branches and trunk of the plant. Raspberries are known by many aliases, such as: hooker, raspberry, raspberry berry, tree plum, raspberry, wild berry, raspberry, and cassis. The fruit of the raspberry is a polymerized fruit, red, gold, black, in Europe and the United States as a fruit, in China a large number of distribution but less known, only in the northeast region of a small number of cultivation, the market is relatively rare.
What are the effects and functions of raspberries?
Raspberries have the effect of beauty mainly because raspberries contain a large number of flavonoids, this material not only has antibacterial anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic effect, but also is the skin care "master", can improve the blood circulation of the skin, enhance the elasticity of the skin's capillaries, so as to make the skin cell regeneration. The skin cell regeneration, get beauty, anti-aging effect.
And by testing the D-galactose model of aging in mice, the results show that raspberries are able to very significantly reduce the activity of MAO-B, making it possible to improve the ability to slow down the aging process.
Raspberries in addition to beauty and anti-aging effects, in the role of anti-mutagenesis should not be underestimated, raspberries contain water-soluble extracts have a certain degree of anti-mutagenesis, so some health food also use raspberries as raw materials, and raspberries contain antioxidants can effectively prevent free radicals on the brain to cause damage, and can improve the brain's blood transportation, the brain is also a health care center. Therefore, raspberries are also good for the brain.
In addition, raspberries also play an important role in the prevention of cancer, raspberries in the anthocyanin glycosides can effectively scavenging free radicals, to prevent free radicals damage to the body's tissues and cells, the reason why cancer occurs, it is precisely because of the body's tissues and cells are damaged by free radicals, resulting in the structure of the DNA molecule is altered, so the raspberries can scavenging free radicals, you can also prevent the emergence of cancer.
And the various active ingredients contained in raspberries can also increase the excitement of the sexual nerves and improve the blood circulation of the male genitals, therefore, male friends may also want to eat more.