The importance of potassium

This mineral stores and then transform carbohydrates into energy. In addition, it serves to improve the work of the kidney, facilitating the removal of toxins, keep your heart rate level and blood pressure, among other actions.

Potassium is found in fruits, green leafy vegetables, etc.. The lack of this substance can cause dizziness, fatigue and muscular weakness. Some salty foods or alcohol can cause a deficiency of this mineral.

The kiwi, very nutritious fruit

Until recently it was a true unknown, but recently has become one of the most consumed fruit. Its appearance should be especially welcomed by parents of children who refuse to citrus. Because, although its size is small (weighing about 88 g), provides more vitamin C than oranges (which has an approximate weight of 180 g).

The kiwi contains 74.5 mg while orange provides between 67 and 70 mg vitamin C, which is half kiwi a day is enough to cover the daily needs in children. It is also rich in vitamins A, Bi, B2 and B3, and potassium.

Fruits medicinal

The berries have been a traditional remedy in folk medicine, such as raspberries used for liver disorders, or blueberries gorse, which pre-Columbian tribes used to treat urinary infections.

They were also credited with preventing heart disease and tumors. Its therapeutic properties are based on their content of fiber and antioxidants. as ascorbic acid, tocopherols, flavonoids and antocianidinas.

These are some of those fruits:

• sloe-Blackthorn.
Gives a drupe dark blue or black that is used to prepare jellies. jams, Pacha and other liquors.

• Madroño-unetio-Arbutus.
The bush is part of the arms of Madrid. The result is a soft yellowish meat, sweet, but indigestible. If you are very mature contains alcohol. It is used to manufacture
homemade liqueurs.

• Cassis grossularia-white-Ribes.
Fruit yellow skin with a little hairy, acidic taste. more or less sweet. Some varieties are eaten raw, others, jams and pastries.

• Blackcurrants-blackcurrant.
Similar to blueberry, thick-skinned and red meat, and aromatic acid. It is used in jellies and liqueurs-cassis. It is laxative and has more vitamin C than orange juice.

• Redcurrants-rubum-Ribes. This soft crystalline consumed raw, jellies and jams. Rich in vitamins, if well is ripe diuretic.

• Bilberry-Vaccinium myrtillus.
Red fruit to ripen that becomes dark blue or black, round. with a crown. The flesh is juicy, sweet and acid. Used in crude, for jellies and liqueurs. Contains tetaninos.

• Raspberry-Rubus ideaus.
The fruit is formed by drupa grouped in pineapple. It is very delicate and loses aroma from the moment of her collection. From bittersweet flavor, consumed raw, jams and jellies.

• Zarzamora-Rubus fruticosus.
It grows wild throughout the peninsula. The ripe fruit, black, aromatic, sour and sweet crude is consumed in jams and liqueurs. It is astringent and a diuretic, for their potassium content.