Overview
Blackcurrants don’t just taste delicious, eating them can provide your body with vital nutrients and help to protect your body against a myriad of ills including cardiovascular disease and ageing.
Eat a Rainbow!
We all know that eating 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day is the optimum way to keep our bodies healthy and get essential nutrients into our diet. But this is often easier said than done! By visualising this task as a rainbow, it may help to keep healthy eating on track by eating a wide variety of different coloured fruits and vegetables.
Blackcurrants are full of health promoting antioxidants, called anthocyanins, which give blackcurrants their distinctive dark purple colour. The darker the blackcurrant, the more anthocyanins it contains and the better it is for you. British blackcurrants are grown and bred especially for their deep colour, making them extra good for you.
Blackcurrants are also especially rich in Vitamin C - containing more than three times as much as an orange! They can even help prevent joint inflammation, eyestrain and urinary infections.
Find out more about how eating blackcurrants can help keep you healthy.
What Are Anthocyanins?
Anthocyanins are a type of antioxidant found in blackcurrants. It's the anthocyanins in blackcurrants which give them their distinctive dark colour. Blackcurrants grown in the British Isles are bred especially for a deeper, purple colour.
Foods that are good sources of these compounds are; dark berry fruits (particularly blackcurrants) and grapes for anthocyanins; apples and onions for flavonols; and green tea for catechins.
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