Well this little baby might surprise you! The awesome Cherry! Known as valuable effective medicine since way back in the 1400′s!  The cherry has more than earned it’s right to be called a super food, this tiny beautiful fruit is just simply loaded with goodies that keep us healthy, low in calories and big in health – the amazing Raw Food – The Cherry!

The Healing Power Of Raw Food – The Cherry – It’s Benefits

Did you know - One cup of sweet cherries has just 90 calories? They are an excellent source of fiber and vitamin C and that is just the beginning!

This Raw Food, sorry I mean super food – has an enormous amount of antioxidants, thousands in fact!  These nutrient packed little gems are very aptly referred to as ‘The seeds of the future‘. The future because they are so amazing at protecting us, fighting the free radicals that destroy our cells, yep they can truly be called good soldiers!

Cherries are really good balancers, they regulate our hormones and believe it or not they help with our sleep patterns, apparently if we eat a handful before bed they will help us with sleep patterns?

The Raw Food Cherry is very rich in the anti-oxidant melatonin. Melatonin calms down our nervous  system and any irritability which in turn relieves things like neurosis, insomnia and headaches, therefore we sleep better!

This Raw Food – The Cherry – Fights Inflammation!

These raw food beauties can help us with pain relief and any inflammation, arthritis, joint pain, gout … when we have any joint pain, it is quite often due to excessive waste  called  uric acid, this accumulates around the joint and causes great discomfort, just a bowl of cherries can help enormously – Great news.

The enormous amount of disease fighting antioxidants in this raw food can help with preventing heart problems, lower cholesterol and body fat, and of course build our immune system.

They are an amazing source of many vitamins and minerals too, and being high in water they keep us hydrated.

Eating a large variety of rich colored raw food  fruits is essential to our overall health, and the deep reds are the highest in antioxidants.

The Raw Food Cherry Smoothie

You would need a lot of these super raw food gems to make a juice and it could turn out expensive - amazing juice but maybe best to go with a smoothie, I like to use frozen cherries, just take the stones out before freezing.

10 pitted fresh or frozen Cherries

1 Banana

1 cup fresh water

sprinkling of cacao (optional but great with cherries)

Blend the banana with the water first until smooth. Then add the cherries, garnish with cherries and cacao… delicious!

Enjoy Your Raw Food Cherry Smoothie!