Health benefits
Make a choice to add healthy berries to your daily diet. Strawberries are amazing consumed fresh or frozen. Add them to your morning porridge or top off your muesli and yoghurt with a hand full sliced up. Put in the kids lunch boxes or grab as an impulse snack when you're on the run. Smoothies or home baking just taste better with strawberries or at the end of the day finish it off with a strawberry filled dessert.
Whatever way you have them, adding a great source of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that support your immune system whilst tasting great has to be good for you and your body!
Information released from Strawberry growers NZ show the health benefits and nutritional status of fresh New Zealand strawberries. Click on the poster to enlarge.
10 strawberries contain 50mg of Vitamin C, which is more Vitamin C than one orange!
Vitamin C works as an antioxidant to protect our bodies from damage, and is involved in the growth of our bones, tendons, ligaments and skin. It also increases the absorption of iron from our foods.
Strawberries are also a source of dietary fibre, folate, niacin, and contain potassium.
Nutrition Information
1 cup = 175 g
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Average Quantity per serving |
% Daily Intake per serve |
Average Quantity per 100 g |
|
Energy (kJ/Cal) |
265/63 |
3% |
152/36 |
|
Protein (g) |
1.3 |
3% |
0.7 |
|
Fat, total (g) |
0.6 |
1% |
0.4 |
|
- saturated (g) |
0.04 |
0% |
0.02 |
|
Available carbohydrate (g) |
11.5 |
4% |
6.6 |
|
- sugars (g) |
11.4 |
13% |
6.5 |
|
Dietary Fibre (g) |
3.2 |
11% |
1.8 |
|
Sodium (mg) |
1 |
0% |
1 |
|
Vitamin C (mg) |
80 |
200% RDI* |
46 |
|
Folate (µg) |
35 |
18% RDI* |
20 |
|
Niacin (mg) |
1.30 |
13% RDI* |
0.74 |
|
Potassium (mg) |
298 |
|
170 |
Percentage Daily Intakes are based on an average adult diet of 8700 kJ. Your daily intakes may be higher or lower depending on your energy needs
*Recommended Dietary Intake (Average Adult)
Source: FOODfiles 2016