The chokeberry

Hello, my friends.

The chokeberry in my garden does not occupy the most central place. When I started building a house, I planted 2 bushes of blackberries on the very edge of the garden plot. And next to the house there was already a large bush of chokeberry. The bush gave little harvest, so I decided to remove it and plant an apple tree in its place. But I realized that the bush has very large roots and I did not want to fight with them. So I left them in the hope that in a couple of years the roots will die. But it so happened that new shoots appeared, which began to give a good harvest, and I decided to leave the bush to grow further.

This berry is very tart in taste and it will not work to eat a lot of it at one time. Then why do I need this berry? Why did Mother Nature come up with this berry?
After harvesting, we dry it and add it to compotes in winter. They give astringency to the drink. You can add this berry fresh to the compote. We even used it as a filling when making pies, but only in combination with other berries. These black berries are especially well combined with apples.

And what are these berries useful for? Mother Nature doesn't do anything for nothing. Even harmful insects, such as mosquitoes, are needed for the food chain.
Aronia is a real storehouse of useful substances, as you can actually say about all the berries. It contains a rich natural complex of vitamins, such as C, B1, B2, B6, E, K, P. As well as macro - and microelements: boron, iron, manganese, copper, molybdenum and copper. There are pectin and tannins.

Due to its properties and the trace elements contained in the berry, the black aronia has a beneficial effect on the entire human body. I can describe all the benefits of berries for a very long time and a lot, but I think that everyone can get this information from already available sources on the Internet.

The most important thing is that these berries should reduce blood pressure. My mom has a problem with this. Just recently, she had a blood pressure jump, she had to call the ambulance service. And there was no one at home, I was just driving home from work with my daughter.
It's good that everything went well.
Therefore, I recommend that my mother eat these berries periodically.

By the way, I'm not afraid that the birds will eat the berries. They do not eat them until frost. In winter, it is a welcome food for fieldfare, waxwing and bullfinches.
The birds are waiting for the cold weather, so that the berry freezes and loses its astringency.

But each medal has 2 sides. That is, these berries, because of their own properties, should be eaten with caution by people with low blood pressure, stomach diseases-gastritis, peptic ulcer diseases, as well as with increased blood clotting. I think everyone understands why this is so.

As a child, I could easily eat this berry in large quantities. But I still preferred to eat it in a dried form. If you have such an opportunity, I recommend you to try it.

And in autumn, the bush also looks very beautiful because of its reddened leaves.
By the way, I have a repair raspberry in the garden, it gives 2 harvests a year, but due to the dry summer, autumn berries began to appear very late. So the berries will ripen already under the snowfall.