Raspberries

The fruit raspberry is a gentle flavour for sweets and desserts. It's mostly red or reddish pink in colour, although raspberries can also come in other colours, such as black, blue, yellow and purple. Those are hybrid varieties but the natural fruit is red to reddish pink. Raspberries belong to the rose family. They are best planted during the season of Winter and kept very far away from vegetable patches. Don't plants them on used soil where tomatoes and vegetables used to grow because this would create fungus and disease for the raspberries. Please, if you're interested in growing any, look up more about wilt disease because raspberries are vulnerable to it. 

Rich in Vitamin C raspberries are extremely healthy to eat. They are also a healing ingredient, to stop inflammations, toxin buildups and constipation. Raspberries can also used to prevent ill health by its antioxidant properties within. This fruit helps with eye health and fertility. Be patient with growing raspberries for the first time because it can take a year for the plant to grow fruits. 

Raspberry leaves are very good for healing and strengthening muscles in the uterus. Women and girls will find raspberries and raspberry leaf tea helps ease discomfort during menstrual cramps. Pregnant women are advised to drink tea made from raspberry leaves after 32 weeks of their gestation period. It's meant to give them an easier pregnancy and childbirth. It's also best to have no more than three cups of the tea in a day. Raspberries have been called the herb for women. 🌹    

In Greek myths, raspberries used to be white fruits, and then the nymph called Ida, pricked her finger on the thorns of the raspberry bush. Her blood turned the fruits red. A mountain named after her called Mount Ida, because "a lot of raspberries grew there", according to the ancient Greek legend. I want to add before anyone considers going there to visit Mount Ida to pick those red fruits that raspberries don't actually grow there on the mountain anymore. Some say this is because of deforestation over the years. Raspberries did once grow there at the time of Pliny the Elder, a Roman philosopher, because he mentioned it in his book "Natural History of the Blackberry". 

Raspberries are a wild fruit 

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