The best part of summer is the tasting the abundance of sweet and juicy fruit. But sometimes, sour can be good too!Eating sour fruits is very healthy and make u loose a few pounds sometimes,believe me and just give it a try.
Let's get to the bottom line. Why should we try tart cherries?
Well, there is a lot of health benefits to tart cherries. Number one, it's a fruit and that is always a good thing. Number two, tart cherries are very concentrated in a substance called anthocyanins. Those are actually the chemicals in tart cherries that give them the beautiful, beautiful color that they have. And those chemicals do a lot of things.
Number one, they are anti-inflammatory.If people are hurt, they probably are not going to be as active so it may indeed help them prevent some of that inflammation. Number two, tart cherries can also lower uric acid levels. That means for people who have gout, they may not have as many symptoms associated with gout. Number three tart cherries make also work very similarly by helping to decrease the metabolic syndrome, lowering blood glucose, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood cholesterol and keeping our bodies healthy. So there is a lot of health benefits from this wonderful little fruit.
With gout nutrition, we often talk about what not to eat. This is exciting to know that this is something we can actually eat and help.
Another thing comes up is how much is good?
what the studies are saying is probably looking at about either a handful of a tart cherry, whether it is a dried tart cherry or using the frozen ones, in something because they are a little tart to have by themselves; or having an eight ounce glass of juice. Any of those would work well. And the other thing that is a benefit and very unique to the tart cherry is that tart cherries are a significant source of melatonin which also may help regulate sleep. So truly, we have got a head to toe benefit associated with tart cherries.
When we look at recovery, recovery is that ideally, somebody is going to refuel and rehydrate or put the fluid and the fuel back in post-exercise; also, thinking about doing it before exercise so it is along a continuum. It's not just get out and do your sport, but think about what is going into your body, before, during and after. That means incorporating some foods with protein and also as part of that red recovery routine, it may be using tart cherry juice as a smoothie or having a handful of tart cherries in a trail mix. It doesn't have to be a lot but a little bit can be very, very beneficial for the body.
We often see sweet cherries every where. I really seldom see tart cherries in the produce section of the grocery store. So where can we find tart cherries?
You won't see them in the produce section of the grocery store. Where you will see them, however, you will see them dried. So we can find dried tart cherries. We can find them frozen. We can also find them canned and we can find them as tart cherry juice. And it is the tart cherries that concentrate more of the anthocyanins or these health promoting substances. That doesn't mean we shouldn't eat sweet cherries. Indeed, we should. But for that little added health benefit, we are looking for them as juice, dried or frozen. The good news about that is you can get them 365 days a year.
Some quick and simple diet suggestions in how we can incorporate more tart cherries in our diet?
One of the things we could do is even swapping out, in the morning, and maybe putting tart cherries into our cereal instead of using perhaps a different type of a dried fruit. Or even putting them on a salad. U'll love it because it gives this nice, tart, sweet, chewy taste that's a beautiful complement to a lettuce or even using them in a rice pilaf is gorgeous. It is a wonderful, wonderful taste. Putting them in a smoothie as well and even mixing them into a trail mix. So they really have application across the board in any meal and again, we don't have to use a lot. A handful of the dried cherries a day or an eight ounce glass of juice, either by itself or perhaps mixed in to a smoothie. So a lot of versatility associated with the use of it.
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