Dried rosehips

Wild rose, magnificent unpretentious shrub with fragrant and incredibly useful orange-red fruits, a pantry of vitamins. . . All these names speak of the same plant - rosehips. It not only has unusually attractive, in no way inferior to its beauty colors to an ordinary rose, but also, even more valuable, useful berries, which can be called a whole laboratory and a health battery. It is known that ascorbic acid in them is contained more than in lemon or currant, and many representatives of the plant kingdom can envy the amount of other vitamins and minerals.

Rose hips are so useful that many hostesses necessarily harvest them for the winter. So, one of the most common and popular methods of harvesting includes drying rosehips. Moreover, almost one hundred percent of useful substances are preserved in dried rosehips, which means that the benefits of these fruits in dried form are no less than fresh ones.

However, in order for all useful properties to be preserved in dried rosehips, it is necessary to harvest fruits according to the rules, which are not so difficult. The best option is the gradual drying of fresh fruits in an open, well-ventilated room without access to sunlight. If this method is not possible for some reason, you can use the oven at home, but the heating temperature should not be higher than 90 degrees. Subject to the technology, the shelf life of dried rose hips can reach 2 years. By the way, properly dried raw materials differ in brownish red or dark yellow color.

Interestingly, dried rose hips of saturated dark color are valued even higher than fresh fruits, since it has almost twice as many useful elements, and at the same time calories. This is truly a multi-vitamin complex of natural origin, from which decoctions and infusions are made, dried berries are added to jelly and compotes, which are so relevant during the season of colds.

Traditional medicine has a whole arsenal of options for using dried rosehips, but mainly healing syrup infusions are made from it. These drugs are sometimes simply indispensable in winter and spring, since it is then that there is a possibility of exacerbation of vitamin deficiency. In addition, both fresh and dried rosehips effectively help with respiratory and inflammatory diseases, contributing to a decrease in body temperature, as well as strengthening immunity.

However, dried rosehips, as well as drinks and other products based on it, have their drawbacks. In particular, it is not recommended to take a rosehip infusion without a break for a long time, as this can provoke a malfunction of some organs and systems of the body. In addition, it is worth treating the use of this product with caution to people with gastritis, increased acidity, peptic ulcer and thrombophlebitis.