The good news is you can eat all the cherries you want, satisfying your sweet tooth, while at the same time hydrating your body and getting loads of high density nutrition. It doesn’t get much better than that. Some researchers (there’s actually an organization called the Cherry Research Council) are saying that cherries are a superfood.
We first started hearing about superfoods in connection with more exotic fruits like acai berries, pomegranate, goji berries and mangosteen. Wikipedia defines superfruits as a marketing term to describe those fruits that combine nutritional richness, with high antioxidant values (those cancer prevention phyto-nutrients) and superb taste. But the reality is that many common fruits like cherries, blueberries, grapes and mangos have the same qualities as these more exotic superfruits and are normally more accessible and economical.
Some cherry nutrition facts are:
Cherries are especially high in vitamin C. One cup will provide 16% of the USDA. They have moderate amounts of vitamin A and K. Additionally, cherries have trace minerals that are necessary for healthy bodily functions such as copper which is essential to human health. There are 16 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of fiber and 1 gram of protein in one cup of cherries with pits.
Get your cherry nutrition from eating them whole, putting them in smoothies or freezing them and adding them to fresh frozen bananas and putting them through your champion juicer to make a 100% fruit ice cream. Anyway you eat them cherries are a great summer treat.
