Cranberries have a sour and slightly sweet taste.
Cranberry, also known as cranberry, is an evergreen shrub dwarf vine of Vaccinium in Ericaceae. The whole looks like a crane, and the flowers are like the head and mouth of a crane, so cranberries are also called crane berries.
It mainly grows in acidic peat soil in the cool zone of the northern hemisphere, and is called the three traditional fruits in North America together with Concord grape and blueberry. Cranberry is favored by people because of its high moisture, low calorie, high fiber and multi-minerals. Cranberry and its processed products have great development prospects and market prospects in China's fruit and vegetable processing industry because of their unique taste, natural and efficient antibacterial and health care effects.
Anti-helicobacter pylori:
The procyanidins, ellagic acid, phenolic acid and resveratrol contained in cranberries have antibacterial effects. Many studies have shown that cranberries can inhibit the infection of Helicobacter pylori and have a good effect on preventing gastric ulcer, gastric cancer and duodenal ulcer.
Antioxidants: Flavonoids in cranberries have antioxidant function in vivo and in vitro, especially flavonols and procyanidins have preventive effect on atherosclerosis.
Protect the mouth and teeth: It is found that the substances extracted from cranberry juice can decompose oral flora, especially streptococcus mutans which can cause dental caries and dental plaque in saliva, thus protecting teeth.
Cranberry has many other protective effects on J, such as relaxing bowels, lowering cholesterol, preventing heart disease and arteriosclerosis, and also has antioxidant, anti-tumor, anti-virus, liver protection and anti-ulcer effects.
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