Description of an unusual redberry bush. Taste and aromatic properties of the plant's fruits. Chemical composition, benefits and harms of berries. Contraindications for their inclusion in the diet. How do people eat bugs? Interesting recipes. Important! In combination with sugar, the berry becomes less effective, the same applies to prolonged heat treatment.
Contraindications and harm to bedbugs
Like any berry, and even more so red, it is not recommended to give bedbug to young children, pregnant women and people over 70-75 years old because of the high risk of allergies. If you do this, then a severe rash on the body, itching and burning of the skin will become possible, in some cases the body temperature also rises slightly.
Despite its useful composition and low calorie content, the bug still remains heavy enough for the stomach to be consumed raw and even more pure. If you eat it on an empty stomach, especially in large quantities, you may experience diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, and colic in the navel. In this case, you will need to empty the intestines, drink at least 300 ml of warm water and take the position of the embryo for a few minutes. The main contraindication to the use of redberries is individual intolerance to berries, which is quite common. You should not include it in your diet and in case of any disruptions in the work of the gastrointestinal tract, in the stage of exacerbation of gastritis, colitis, stomach and intestinal ulcers.
How is redberry eaten?
Let us repeat that it is consumed fresh very rarely and carefully due to the high probability of allergic reactions. But since this is how it is most useful for health, the berries can be grated with sugar and added to various baked goods, or you can cook compotes and spread on bread. To do this, for 1 kg of bedbugs, which must be washed and dried in advance on a towel, you need to take 500 g of sugar. After combining them, the mass should be allowed to stand for about an hour, and then grind it thoroughly with a spoon.
Krasnika perfectly tolerates freezing, so it can be harvested in advance for the winter. To do this, the berries should be well washed, dried, folded into small plastic containers, covered with cling film and sent to the freezer. It is allowed to store them here for up to a year, since if this period is exceeded, the taste is gradually lost, and the benefits become less.
Various syrups, compotes, preserves, and jams are also prepared from raw redberries. It can be either not diluted with any other ingredients besides sugar, or combined with various fruits and berries. It adjoins very well with apples, oranges, gooseberries, pears, peaches, raspberries.
Redberry recipes
Especially mouth-watering desserts are obtained with klopovka. It can be added to various yoghurts, kefir, curd mass, cheesecakes, puddings, casseroles, it emphasizes their taste and gives them original notes. It is allowed to put here both raw berries and pre-grated with sugar, if desired, or ready-made jam. It is also a great filling for brass pies.
Here are some redberry recipes that might interest you:
- Syrup … Pour well-washed berries (1 kg) into a deep saucepan with a volume of at least 3 liters. Then add sugar (2 kg) and stir the mixture with a spoon. Cover it with a lid and store it in your basement or refrigerator for 5 days. Shake the mixture every evening so that it is evenly distributed over the container. As a result, you will get a mixture that will need to be poured, strain through a sieve to exclude lumps from undissolved sugar and consume 2-3 tbsp. l.every day or add to your favorite dishes, for example, oatmeal or cottage cheese.
- Jam … To prepare it, pour boiling water over the berries (1 kg), cover with sugar (1.5 kg) and leave for 2 hours. Then, in an enamel saucepan, place them on the stove to simmer for an average of 1.5 hours. All this time, the mass should be stirred to prevent burning. After the specified time has elapsed, remove it from the heat, cool it, put it in sterilized jars, roll it up and after 2-3 days of being warm, send it to the basement or refrigerator. It can be either spread on bread or added to various dishes, primarily dairy products and pastries.
- Jam with apples … First, rub the redberry (1.5 kg) with sugar (2 kg) with a spoon. Then peel the red sweet apples (500 g), chop and grate. Combine both ingredients and let sit for about two hours. After that, stir the mixture well and put on high heat, and when it boils, reduce it. Then cover the pan with a lid and leave the mixture on the fire for an average of 1.5 hours, stirring occasionally to avoid burning.
- Berry and fruit puree … Peel apples (2), banana (1) and pear (1). Grind them and beat with a blender into a gruel. Add raw whole berries there, stir the mixture, sprinkle with almonds and crumbs of any dry biscuit, top it all with plain yogurt.
Note! To reduce the sour taste of berries, you can pour boiling water over them before use.
Interesting facts about excellent vaccinium
Outwardly, many confuse bedbugs with cranberries, since they are similar in size, color, and shape. Some even claim that they taste almost the same.
We present a table with the features of the plant:
| Characteristic | Leaves | Fruit | Flowers |
| Colour | Green | Red | With pinkish bell-shaped corolla |
| The form | Ovate or nearly round, with gradual tapering towards the tip | Round | Diamond-shaped, length 5-6 mm |
| Taste | Sweet and sour | Sweet and sour | Not eaten |
Due to their wide spectrum of action, berries are actively used not only in cooking, but also in the medical industry, as well as in homeopathy. Syrup is used to lower body temperature, and jam is used to treat coughs. Berry bushes are very low, they barely reach a height of 1.5 m. At the same time, they have a large root system that can cover an area of more than 1 m2… That is why not everyone is ready to plant them on their site, since then it will be very difficult to get rid of the plant if necessary. True, it takes many years for the rhizome to spread in the ground, so other crops are definitely not threatened with displacement. Krasnika is an excellent not only fruit, but also an ornamental plant. It serves as a beautiful decoration of land plots when it transforms after the winter "hibernation" and acquires numerous red flowers. The berries on the bush form a kind of small bunches, like grapes, however, their number usually does not exceed 3-5 pieces.
You can eat not only the fruits of the plant, but also its leaves, which are especially tasty in May, when they are filled with juice and seem to melt in your mouth, resembling something like sorrel. At the same time, at any time before the establishment of stable warm weather, frost can trap it, which can be fatal for redberries. The plant is unstable to low temperatures (over -6 ° C) and when it gets cold it announces this by freezing berries, leaves, flowers.
Krasnika, although it usually grows wild in the forests of Primorsky or Khabarovsk Territories, can be easily grown in a different climatic zone. For example, this culture has taken root quite well in summer cottages in the Moscow region.
In order for her to survive, for the winter she is covered with a double layer of plastic wrap or spunbond, and this protection is removed only closer to May. This gives it even more beauty, since after such storage, the leaves acquire a crimson rim around the edges.
It is also interesting that the leaves of the plant contain more ascorbic acid than the fruits themselves. The latter appear in early June, and fully ripen towards the end of July.
It is noteworthy that the Korsakov Severnaya Zvezda Beer and Beverage Plant produces carbonated sweet water called Klopovka, which is based on this berry. The mass domestication of the krasniki took place only at the end of the 90s of the twentieth century. But the first attempts to grow it by the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences were successfully undertaken 7 years earlier. As a result of experiments, it turned out that the shrub grows well and bears fruit in a mixture of sand and peat. It also became known that he needs regular weed removal and loosening of the earth. Nor can he survive without applying a number of fertilizers, especially potassium sulfate and double superphosphate. Watch a video about redberry:
The author of the book "Actinidia, Schizandra", a prominent Russian scientist in the field of breeding, E. I. Kolbasina, designated the red wine as a culture of the XXI century. So why not try this unusual berry for us, and maybe, even if you really like it, not plant it on your site ?! After all, you already know how redberry is eaten and how useful it is!
