Description of the plant white mulberry. Composition and calorie content of berries, useful properties and alleged harm. Delicious recipes and cooking applications. Important to remember! White mulberry berries should be eaten by people who are emaciated after illness, especially boys who have had mumps and scarlet fever, in order to avoid problems in the genital area.
Contraindications and harm to white mulberry
Despite the large number of useful elements and healing properties, white mulberry can still harm the body. Therefore, it is necessary to eat it in moderation, without overusing it.
Contraindications to the use of white mulberry:
- Hypertension … When consuming white mulberry berries, especially in hot weather, because they ripen on such summer days, blood pressure may increase and there is even a risk of stroke.
- Severe diabetes mellitus … The fruits of this plant contain a lot of sugar, so you need to refrain from consuming them for people with this ailment.
- Individual intolerance … Berries and fruits are strong allergens, for this reason, and it is recommended to include white mulberry in your diet very carefully.
Recipes with white mulberry
Excellent sweet taste and pleasant aroma make white mulberry a very popular berry, which is known and eaten willingly in many parts of the world. Various desserts, preserves, jams, compotes, wines and liqueurs, berry and fruit salads, baked goods - this is not the whole list of culinary delights, where these berries are one of the components.
Delicious recipes with white mulberry:
- Dessert "The Magic of Tenderness" … We grind 1 piece of shortbread into crumbs with our hands and put it on the bottom of the bowl. Spread 70 g of curd cream on top. Both strawberry and children's cottage cheese dessert is suitable for our recipe. We wash 50 g of white mulberry berries and put on a mass of cottage cheese. Now we will work with a blender. Beat 50 g of washed fruits, 70 g of cottage cheese cream and vanillin (to taste). Add 1 teaspoon of honey. And we spread the resulting mass on the berries. Once again we need to work with a blender: whisk 70 ml of heavy cream. We cut open 1 piece of shortbread cookies and pour it into a bowl, coat it with a creamy mixture on top. Our dessert is ready! It can be garnished with berries and mint leaves.
- Coffee mannik with white mulberry on kefir … First you need to mix 1, 5 cups of kefir, 1 cup of semolina, 0, 5 cups of sugar and 1 egg and leave to infuse for 1 hour. Then add 2 teaspoons of baking powder and mix well. After that, pour 1-2 tablespoons of instant coffee into the dough and mix again until the lumps dissolve. We wash 1 cup of white mulberry, cut off the tails and put in the dough, mix again and put in the multicooker bowl. Bake for 1 hour, then remove, turn over and bake for another 10 minutes for the product to brown. Enjoy your meal!
- Strawberry and White Mulberry Smoothie … We wash 150 g of strawberries and white mulberries each. Grind them in a blender. Add 1-2 tablespoons of sugar, 75 g of ice cream and 2-3 tablespoons of water. Mix all the ingredients well, beat, and the dish is ready. Such a sweet and sour dessert is perfect for a table in hot weather.
- Milkshake with white mulberry … Rinse with 1.5 cups of white mulberry and beat with 1 tablespoon of honey and 2 tablespoons of sugar in a blender. Gradually add 150 g of ice cream and continue beating. The last component is 1 glass of milk, pour it into the prepared mass and mix well.
- White mulberry wine … We wash with 1 kg of berries and leave them to dry for 24 hours. Squeeze out the juice and add the same amount of water. For each liter of diluted juice, add 5 g of ground cinnamon and 150 g of sugar. Pour the product into a jar and leave to ferment for 5-6 days. We filter and pour 1 liter of fortified white wine into 10 liters of wine and leave for 2 weeks. Add sugar to taste, pour and seal.
- Mulberry compote … We wash 300 g of white mulberry and strain it in a colander. We put the berries in heated jars, fill them with syrup made from 650 ml of water, 350 g of sugar and 1 g of citric acid. We sterilize jars with a capacity of 0.5 liters for 10-25 minutes, depending on the temperature, seal and wrap them until they cool.
- White mulberry jam … We wash with 1 kg of berries, pour them with 1 kg of sugar and leave for 6-8 hours. After this time, we put the jam on the fire, bring to a boil and cook for 5-10 minutes. Remove from heat, let the product cool down and send it back to the stove, continue the cooking process: bring it to a boil and cook for 5-10 minutes. And this should be done 5-6 times. The finished jam has the thickness of good sour cream. Add 2-3 g of citric acid to it. We sterilize the jars, fill them with the product and seal them.
- Fruit salad … First, wash with 9 plums, 2 peaches and 30 g of white mulberries. Then remove the seeds from the plums and peaches and cut all the berries into small pieces. After that, pour the components with 1 teaspoon of sugar and mix them. Fill the salad with 2 tablespoons of any yogurt.
Interesting facts about white mulberry
Inhabitants of the East call the white mulberry "the tree of life", and its fruits - the "queen of berries". One large plant has the ability to produce up to 200 kg of berries, and sometimes up to 500 kg. Christians tell a legend that Jesus Christ once hid under the white mulberry tree. This tree can still be seen in Jericho.
It has become a great tradition in Cyprus to hold once a year a silkworm festival, which is treated with great respect here.
There is a connection between mulberry and silk fabrics. The leaves of this tree are a food product for the caterpillar, which is called the silkworm, its pupa is its entourage of silk threads. Hence the second name of the mulberry tree - mulberry. Silk became known to the world after one very curious incident. There is a legend about this. Chinese princess Xi Liing Shi was resting under a mulberry tree and drinking tea. A silkworm cocoon fell into her cup. And in the dish with this fragrant drink, the cocoon began to unravel, and its thin, but strong threads shimmered in the sun. This is how people learned that a caterpillar living on a silk tree gives us wonderfully beautiful silk fabrics.
In eastern countries and in Central Asia, the mulberry tree is treated as sacred. Bark is an excellent material for amulets and charms. In the courtyard, under this tree, they set a table where the whole family gathers, because evil spirits are afraid to approach the mulberry tree, and all family members are safe here.
The inhabitants of Europe got acquainted with this wonderful plant in the 12th century. Since the 17th century, they began to grow it in Russia, in the regions located near Moscow. But the climate here turned out to be unsuitable for the cultivation of white mulberry, due to its harshness and cold weather. Therefore, the cultivation was moved to the south. Currently, the mulberry tree is found both culturally and wild.
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So, white mulberry is a plant that gives fruits excellent in taste and aroma, in addition, they are also very useful for health. You can eat them both raw and thermally processed. There are many recipes for these berries. There are dishes that are consumed immediately after cooking, and there are those that are preserved for the winter: preserves, jams, compotes, wines and dried product. You can get the fruits in markets and supermarkets. But it is best to plant a tree in your area and grow these berries yourself, being confident in their complete usefulness and the absence of any chemicals. In addition, this plant will be a talisman for the whole family from bad energy and bad people.
