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Strawberries are not only delicious but high in a number of nutrients including calcium, manganese, potassium, and folate. They are also high in dietary fibre and antioxidants. Antioxidants help to protect cells in the body which helps to prevent heart disease and certain cancers. Strawberries also contain anti-inflammatory properties which can help to block pain.

If that’s not enough, strawberries also contain a flavonoid known as fisetin. Fisetin has been shown to improve memory. Research is looking into how this chemical might help people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

Unfortunately, you would need to eat around 5 kilos of strawberries a day to get the expected benefits of fisetin. As tasty as strawberries are, not many people would happily eat that much every day. Thankfully fisetin is found in other fruits such as apples, grapes, kiwifruit, oranges, peaches, and tomatoes.

A lot of pesticides are used on conventionally grown strawberries, so this is one food where you really should take the organic option. The problem with strawberries is that they perish very quickly and I find I often throw out a lot which I have purchased as they are damaged or too soft.

The best strawberries by far are home grown strawberries. They are so easy to grow and taste amazing. Buy a few seedlings from your local garden centre and plant them in a pot with organic potting mix. Feed them with a natural liquid fertiliser and before you know it you’ll be eating fresh strawberries. If you love strawberries as much as I do then you’ll want to plant quite a few because they don’t seem to last long. That is, they get eaten the second they become ripe.

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