One fruit that most don’t ever think about eating that can offer a nice change of pace and help you get more variety in your diet is the black currant. Most people only know black currants from black currant pie, but there’s so much more that you can get from this fruit than that.
Let’s take a quick look at what you need to know about the black currant fruit.
Major Nutrients Found In Black Currants
The black currant is a fruit that’s rich in vitamin C content, with one cup providing you with over 338% of your total daily needs. In addition to that, it’s also an excellent source of iron, potassium, as well as manganese, and will promote steady energy levels in the body.
Black currents do contain natural fruit sugar but since this fruit sugar will be partially fructose, it won’t create the blood spike in the body that some other sugar-rich foods may create.
Storing/Selecting
When selecting black currants, you want to look for ones that are firm and dry and have a very nice rounded shape to them. When you get them home, be sure to take out any ones that have evidence of mould right away as that could quickly spread to the other berries and the entire batch would go bad within a day or so.
Place the berries in a shallow container lined with paper towel and wrap with plastic. Stored properly these berries can last for up to one week.
Eat It With:
Black currants can be eaten like any other berry you might enjoy, eaten on their own, tossed into a fruit salad, made into a fruit smoothie, or added to any baking that you might be doing.
Burn Off Calories In Black Currants
To burn off the number of calories in a cup of black currants you would have to do:
- 20 minutes of walking
- 6 minutes of swimming
- 11 minutes of cycling
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