Raspberry syrup 700 ml Fares

Fragrant raspberry syrup with a delightful sweet-sour taste. Combine it with water in a glass ready for fun and good cheer!

Ingredients:

• sugar,
• the water,
• raspberry juice 6% (from raspberry concentrate),
• acidifier: citric acid,
• tastes,
• preservative: potassium sorbate.

Preparation : Raspberry juice is obtained by diluting one part of syrup with 6 parts of mineral water or still water.

The role of the components:

Bushy shrub, from the Rosaceae family, with small thorns, with an erect stem, arched towards the top, with unevenly compound leaves, with 3-7 ovate-lanceolate branches toothed on the edges; the white flowers are arranged in raceme inflorescences at the tips of the branches, and the fruit is an aromatic, tasty polydrupe, containing pectins, organic acids, anthocyanins, vitamins. For therapeutic purposes, the leaves are harvested, before flowering, between May and June.

The scientific name comes from the Latin word rubus which means red, and from the Latin word ida which is the name of a mountain in Phrygia, the place where the plant grew in abundance. Raspberry was used similarly to blackberry by the Greeks, Chinese, Azurvedic medicine practitioners, and Native Americans to cure ailments such as diarrhea, dysentery, and to heal wounds. The raspberry is native to the area of ​​Turkey, and was once used by the people of Troy. Archaeological discoveries have shown that the Romans spread raspberry seeds throughout the empire as far as England.

Raspberries have been used throughout the world for centuries as both food and medicine.

It is a plant whose medical uses are mentioned by Valerius Cordus (German physician and botanist, 1515-1554), and Conrad Gessner (Swiss naturalist, also known as a botanist and physician, 1516-1565) mentions a raspberry syrup.

In Romanian scientific medicine from the beginning of the last century, raspberry leaf infusions were recommended for gastrointestinal catarrh, stomach acidity, diarrhea and "strong menstruation" (hypermenorrhea). Folk medicine used teas made from dried leaves and buds against skin rashes and women's diseases, or against haemorrhages, diarrhea and dysentery; raspberry vinegar or must was also used as lemonade in feverish diseases such as measles, scarlet fever, angina.

Raspberry leaves contain tannin, flavones, and small amounts of vitamin C, having a diuretic, astringent action, also being used in the preparation of aromatic teas. Traditionally, in Europe in general, they are used for ailments of the gastrointestinal tract, the respiratory tract, the cardiovascular system, for irritations of the oral mucosa and throat, and also for skin inflammations, flu, fever, menstrual problems, diabetes, deficiencies in vitamin C, as a diaphoretic, diuretic and choleretic, and also as a blood purifier.

The consumption of raspberry leaves during pregnancy (in the more advanced stages), in order to shorten labor and facilitate birth, has been popular for generations, the effect starting to be studied since the 1940s, and even if clinical studies with cutting-edge methodology are lacking , however, some clinical investigations have made encouraging observations in this direction.