Krasnika

Vaccinium is excellent (Vaccinium praestans) or, as the plant is popularly called, reddish is a shrub belonging to the Heather family. The reddish berry grows mainly in swampy areas, as well as in spruce, fir, as well as deciduous forests. Krasnika chooses such places to grow because of moss, which is perfectly suitable for the vital cycle of the plant.

Krasnika is widespread everywhere in the mountainous taiga regions of the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories. In addition, reddish grows in the territory of Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin. In its appearance, the reddish resembles a different queen of forests, cranberry. The reddish has a rounded leaf shape, which generally do not exceed

3. 5 cm in width.

The plant blooms with pink inflorescences. Spherical reddish berries do not exceed 10 mm in diameter, stand out with their bright red glossy color. The berries taste sour-sweet and juicy. However, the plant exudes a specific smell, for which the dye was nicknamed "bedding" among the people. The plant blooms in the middle of summer, and the harvest of berries can be harvested in August and September.

Residents of the territories of distribution of paints have long used berries not only in cooking, but also in folk medicine. Since the chemical composition of the dye is enriched with useful natural compounds, berry juice is used as a medicine in the treatment of colds.

The dye contains naturally occurring flavonides, which are water-soluble compounds that have found wide application in some industries. For example, due to its distinctive properties, flavonides are used in pharmacological production.

Flavonides, found in excess in berries, are an indispensable component of the human diet. Thanks to natural flavonides, reddish is considered an excellent antioxidant that helps cleanse the human body of various harmful compounds. Regular consumption of red berries contributes to the normalization of digestion and metabolic processes.

In addition, eating red berries has a positive effect on the level of blood pressure in the human body. Rubella can become an excellent preventive and natural remedy for hypertension, as well as for colds or viral infections. It is worth noting that lingonberry berries, as a rule, are not eaten fresh.

It is believed that the dye has a fairly specific taste, in which the incongruous is combined. The sour-sweet, at the same time salty and bittersweet taste of fresh red berries will not be to everyone's taste. But berry juice obtained from dyes can become an excellent source of vitamins and useful natural compounds for people of various ages.