Blackberries
Healing FoodThe blackberries you buy in the store are very close to blackberries in the wild. Some varieties of blackberries are darker than other varieties of blackberries. Some get dark purple when they’re fully ripe; some get practically all black when they ripen. The anthocyanins in blackberries are very powerful and more potent when the blackberry is a darker color. Anthocyanins in blackberries target eye health, helping to stave off degenerative eye diseases. Blackberries have a high antioxidant ratio. Some varieties of blackberries have well over a dozen different kinds of antioxidants, many undiscovered by research and science. Some of the antioxidant varieties in blackberries head directly to the brain when entering the bloodstream. This is when the antioxidants of the blackberry can help slow down cell damage, cell decay, and cell destruction of the brain. Similar to the wild blueberry, blackberries have a hyperantioxidant. This hyperantioxidant stays active just enough to reach deeper places inside the body, faraway places in hard-to-reach organ tissue. Blackberries are powerful skin protectors. The hyperantioxidants reach outer layers of skin tissue. It would take eating blackberries consistently in your life in order to see skin changes. You’d have to consume blackberries on a regular basis. The tiny seeds in blackberries are high in omega-3 and also high in trace minerals. Traces of zinc are in the blackberry seed, and traces of molybdenum. Even though wild blackberries do not need to be fertilized, watered, and fed as cultivated blackberries do, wild blackberries still tend to have more nutrients than the ones you buy in the store. Nevertheless, a storebought or garden-grown blackberry is very close to wild. When a non-wild (cultivated) blackberry plant has the correct nutrients in its soil and water, the plant’s fruit can fulfill the job of helping the body heal with ease.
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If you’re out in nature, look for wild blackberries. They’re usually ready anywhere from June through late August in North America, depending on where you are. Don’t just eat any old berry that you see out there in nature. Be sure they are truly edible blackberries. If your blackberries from the store are partially reddish color mixed with purple and black, they are still edible but weren’t picked when fully ripened. You may find these blackberries slightly acidic and sour tasting. You can always look for the packs with darker blackberries and fewer red patches. If you’re buying blackberries in the store, don’t start eating them right out of the package. Take them home and give them a good rinse with water, or place them in a bowl of water, to separate any debris that was with the berries. Sometimes a pricker will be on its own, a thorn that came from the blackberry plant when harvesting that could be mixed in with the blackberries.
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