Healthy Blueberry Recipes and Snacks

Here's blueberry recipes for adding blueberries to salads, salsas, main dishes, and for snacking. These have more nutrition and less white flour or fats than the blueberry muffins and pancakes that we know and love.

Blueberry nutrition helps heart health, vision, memory AND with weight control, so get kids started early and have dried blueberries handy to mix in with roasted sunflower seeds or nuts for everyone to eat “on the go.”

One of the best ways to eat blueberries is to munch on them while still frozen – straight from the package. Have kids enjoy fruit at its best – with nothing added. Or you can put them into yogurt and add ground flax for a fast breakfast or snack for young and old.

Blueberry Recipes

Add blueberries not only to desserts but to main dishes, poultry as well as sauces, salsas and vinegar. Here are some tested recipes for everyone, from beginners to chefs: Breakfast and Energy Bar * Blueberry Vinegar and Salsa * Main Dishes * Blueberry Sauce and Spiced Blueberries * Deserts * Sauces * Salads *

Traditional Blueberry Recipes

Easy Blueberry Muffins, Berry Heaven Desert, Blueberry Crepes * Baking: Blueberry Recipes Kids Love * Traditional Southern Baking Blueberry Recipes * Make Your Own Energy Bars *

Order Dried Blueberries for Snacks

Dried blueberries can be added to cereals for breakfast, to yogurt and are great for making your own nut mix for snacking on the run:

Traverse Bay Dried Blueberries, 4 lbs * Stoneridge Orchards Whole Dried Blueberries, 14-Ounce Pouches (Pack of 2) * Just Blueberries in an 8 oz Tub * Klein's Naturals Dried Blueberries, (Pack of 6) * Wild, Organic Dried Blueberries *

Blueberry Energy Bars and Books

Nature's Path Foods - Optimum Energy Bar Blueberry Flax Soy, 12 bars * CLIFF NUTRITION BARS blueberry crisp * CHOCOLATE COVERED BLUEBERRIES *

Blueberry and Cherry Nutrition Helps Heart Health, Vision and Memory

The compound that appears responsible for this neuron protection, ANTHOCYANIN, also gives blueberries their color and might be the key component of the blueberry’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. If eating a lot of blueberries is not practical for you, you will want to try an easy-to-use Tart Cherry Concentrate that also has a very high ANTHOCYANIN content.

Researchers report that blueberries help with the following:

• strengthening blood vessels

• clearing arteries

• stroke recovery

• enhanced memory

• improved vision

• reversing age-related physical and mental declines

• stopping urinary tract infections

• promoting weight control

• special antioxidants for disease protection

“We now know that blueberries are one of the best sources of antioxidants, substances that can slow the aging process and reduce cell damage that can lead to cancer,” according to the American Institute for Cancer Research.

“When it comes to brain protection, there’s nothing quite like blueberries, according to Tufts neuroscientist James Joseph,” as recounted in Newsweek (6/17/02). “I call the blueberry the brain berry, says Joseph, who attributes the effects to its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds.”

In the Wall Street Journal (4/29/03), an article on reversing memory loss noted “blueberries . . . had the strongest impact” in a study showing aging rodents behaved more like their younger counterparts when fed several different fruits.

For the health benefits of blueberries:

• Oregon Blueberry Growers * BC Blueberry Growers * US Highbush Blueberry Council *

Blueberries and Cherries for Better Aging

In a USDA Human Nutrition Research Center laboratory, neuroscientists discovered that feeding blueberries to laboratory rats SLOWED AGE-RELATED LOSS IN THEIR MENTAL CAPACITY, a finding that has important implications for humans.

In one study, Jim Joseph, director of the neuroscience laboratory in the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center (HNRC), fed blueberry extractions—the equivalent of a human eating one cup of blueberries a day—to mice and then ran them through a series of motor skills tests.

He found that the blueberry-fed mice performed better than their control group counterparts in motor behavioral learning and memory, and he noticed an increase in exploratory behavior. When he examined their brains, he found a marked decrease in oxidative stress in two regions of the brain and better retention of signal-transmitting neurons compared with the control mice.

Tart cherries are also high in ANTHOCYANIN and TART CHERRY CONCENTRATE has been found effective for sleep and relief of inflammation. Tart Cherry Concentrate for Sleep

• Blueberries, along with other colorful fruits and vegetables, test high in their ability to subdue free radicals and are the perfect anti aging natural supplements.

The free radicals, which can damage cell membranes and DNA through a process known as oxidative stress, are blamed for many of the dysfunctions and diseases associated with aging. For instance, by 2050, more than 30% of Americans will be over 65 and will have the decreased cognitive and motor function that accompanies advanced age.

Preliminary research is showing that people who ate a cup of blueberries a day have performed 5–6% better on motor skills tests than the control group, so that by 2050 people will have means to be in better shape.

Blueberry Recipes for Healthy Eating Snacks as Anti Aging Natural Supplements

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