Useful ingredients of blackcurrant are many plant nutrients, antioxidants, vitamins, essential fatty acids and minerals. They say small wine red fruits are rich in vitamins from all other fruits. Cassis exceed vitamin content of lemons and strawberries 4-5 times.
Compared with apples vitamins in French grapes are 10 times more, 20 times more than the cherry, 100 times – from grapes. Most pronounced in high content of vitamin C. Vitamin concentrate blackcurrant inferior vitamin P (1000 – 2138 mg%) only to chokeberry and black mulberry.
Currant contains a large amount of organic acids (1.9 – 3, 7%) as the citric acid prevails. In fruits the greatest quantity of the mineral salts of potassium (290-320 mg%), calcium (44-48mg%), phosphorous (35-45 mg%), magnesium (15 mg -19%), iron (0.9 – 1.6 mg%).
Blackcurrant is rich in trace elements manganese, copper, zinc, boron, molybdenum, fluorine, iodine. In small fruits currant has a total of 7-12% sugars, predominantly fructose and glucose. Cassis is famous for its high content of vitamin C (a powerful antioxidant), GLA (Gamma Linoleuva acid, a very rare Omega-6 essential fatty acid) and potassium.
They have twice the potassium of bananas, four times higher content of vitamin C than oranges and twice the antioxidants of blueberries. Blackcurrant contains anthocyanins, which are natural compounds found in fruits. They are very powerful antioxidants and are responsible for the characteristic color of blackcurrant.
In 100 g blackcurrant contains: 63 calories, 1.4 g protein, 15.38 grams of carbohydrates and 0.41 g maznini.Bombata of vitamins, which represents black currant, can not but make the fruit very useful to human health. An interesting fact is that the buds, leaves and twigs of black currants are also a large vitamin content.
Therefore the leaves and branches of black grapes is obtained potion that successfully applied colds and other illnesses. Anthocyanins inhibit enzymes cyclooxygenase 1 and 2 and reduce inflammation, as well as the effect of arthritis in the body. Fruit juice of black currant contain proanthocyanidins, anthocyanins and polysaccharides, polysaccharides of blackcurrant (CAPS) and has a stimulating effect.
It has been found that the toxic effect have CAPS against tumor cells and thus reduces the risk of cancers. The rich content of vitamin C in blackcurrant automatically becomes a powerful antioxidant that fights free radicals with great success. If you have the opportunity to regularly eat black currant, you can be sure that the body’s defenses you are at the highest level.
The fruit has a prophylactic effect against colds and infectious diseases. Large levels of iron, manganese and copper in black grapes, make it extremely useful in anemia. Potassium in black currant fruit becomes a suitable food for people with heart and kidney failure, high blood pressure and especially in the presence of medical conditions with edema.
Juice and blackcurrant concentrate is certainly a beneficial effect on eyesight and the top is good at slimming diets. For centuries, black currant is used in gastric ulcer, gastritis with high acidity of gastric juice, which remains unchanged to this day.