Health Benefits of Cherries

We know them as a sweet stone fruit with a charismatic stalk, but there is so much more to the cherry than adding the finishing touch to an ice cream.

Cherries are best grown in the summer, and for Australia and New Zealand, that means a peak season of around December.

They can be bought fresh, canned or frozen. They can be eaten raw (mainly sweet varieties) in salads and by dropping a few in your cherry juice.

Sour cherries are often in baking. Ironically, although these varieties often have more vitamin C than sweet cherries do, much of it is lost when they are heated.

“Recommended for gout sufferers to help reduce uric acid levels, and ease pain and inflammation. Cherries are also packed with free radical fighting antioxidants.”