Raspberry 1-3 meters high, branches prickly, pilose when young. Leaves simple, ovate to ovate-lanceolate.

Many in the sunny slopes, valleys, wasteland, streams and sparse thickets in the wet place, has not been introduced by artificial cultivation. Flowering February-March, fruiting April-June. It has the efficacy of astringent essence to benefit the kidneys and help Yang to brighten the eyes, sobering up wine and quenching thirst, resolving phlegm and detoxifying poison, and is mainly used for treating kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea, drunkenness, and dengtoxin.

Leaf is slightly bitter, detoxification, swelling, astringent sores, etc., sore throat, multiple abscesses, mastitis and other conditions. In addition to the northeast, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Tibet, the rest of the provinces of China, North Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Vietnam are distributed.

Nutritional value of raspberries:

Raspberries contain 0.81-1.74g of protein per 100g, 4.52-7.12g of total reducing sugar, 1.02-2.24g of total acid, of which the protein content is higher than that of strawberries and snakeberry fruit. Vitamin

C is 15.2-40mg, vitamin E is 0.107-2.29mg, vitamin B2

0.085-0.10mg.

Raspberries have a higher vitamin content than cherries, blueberries and other berries, and much higher than some common fruits. Total amino acids 0.74 ~ 1.49g, essential amino acids 0.28 ~ 0.54g, of which glutamic acid content is the highest, followed by aspartic acid, alanine, serine and so on.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Raspberry