Black Currant Juice is Astoundingly Rich in Nutrients!
Black currants have been consumed for centuries medicinally and as a wine, syrup and flavoring from China and Europe to North America, where they’re grown naturally and used by Native Americans. The berry became popular with American colonists in the early 1600’s and have grown in popularity ever since, especially in Great Britain during WWII for their high content of vitamin C.
Nutritional Highlights
Black currant juice has enormousbenefits for relieving infection, symptoms caused by PMS, pain related to menstruation, menopause, poor night vision, arthritis, cancer, inflammation, bladder stones and Alzheimer’s disease.
Amazing Benefits
They are an abundant source of many vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, antioxidant compounds and phytonutrients.
Vitamins include A, B-complex compounds and an exceedingly rich content of vitamin C. They’re abundant in minerals particularly potassium, as well as iron, calcium copper magnesium, zinc, manganese and phosphorus. One cup of fresh currants provides over twice the daily requirement of vitamin C and twice as much potassium as bananas. Antioxidant content is twice that of blueberries. The oil of black currant seeds is unique in its content of Omega 3 and 6. The phytonutrient content is impressive and includes anthocyanins, complex natural sugars -‘glyconutrients,’ OPC’s (oligomeric proanthocynadins) and CAP’s (cassis polysaccharides).
A (retinol): augments eyesight; lowers appetite; fights bacteria; inhibits viruses; prevents growth cell cancers; protects body against immune deficiencies such as HIV and AIDS; fights stroke.
B1 (thiamin): protects damage to digestive system; strengthens heart, nervous system; defends against tissue damage caused by alcohol.
B2 (riboflavin): significant resource for skin health; assists strengthening hair, nails, eyesight, skin, and the body’s ability to increase absorption fats, carbohydrates, proteins.
B3 (niacin): assists in lowering ‘bad cholesterol;’ augments healthy levels, ‘good cholesterol,’ helping maintain heart health, reducing risk heart attack, hardening of arteries; assists transformation of food to energy; helps maintain healthy nervous system; increases absorption, fats, proteins; produces hormones linked to lowering stress, increase of sexual performance.
B5 (pantothenic acid): plays many important functions, including release of food energy; production red blood cells, hormones; helps control action, nervous system; essential for absorption proteins, carbohydrates, fats; lowers cholesterol; defends against inappropriate blood clotting.
B6 (pyroxidine): anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory; diminishes possibility blood clots; assists in formation serotonin, melatonin, norepinephrine, aiding sleep, mood, health.
C (ascorbic acid): significant resource for skin health; assists strengthening hair, nails, eyesight, skin, and the body’s ability to increase absorption fats, carbohydrates and proteins; antioxidant powers lowers risk, cancer.
Calcium: maintains strong teeth and bones; sustains healthy blood clotting, 
muscle strength, nerve health.
Copper: vital ‘trace element’; supports healthy cells; assists in production red blood cells; important for respiration; promotes metabolism, iron; plays important role in maintenance healthy skin cells.
Iron: essential for red and white blood cell development; defends body’s immune system; maintains healthy muscles.
Potassium: critical in metabolism, protein; assists construction strong teeth, bones; crucial role helping body store energy, heal damaged tissue, cells; combined with B-vitamins, helps maintain healthy heart, kidney function, nervous system.
Phosphorus: critical in metabolism protein; assists construction strong teeth, bones; crucial role helping body store energy, heal damaged tissue, cells; combined with B-vitamins, helps maintain healthy heart, kidney function, nervous system.
Magnesium: plays important role bone strengthening, maintaining healthy muscles, augmenting immune system, nerves; supports heart by sustaining healthy circulation, blood pressure.
Zinc: maintains healthy immune system; assists breakdown protein, fat, carbohydrates.
Manganese: needed for synthesis fats, protein, carbohydrates; sustains healthy nervous system.
Anthocyanins: extremely powerful antioxidants; analgesic effect lowers inflammation, assists treatment arthritis; may also help prevent cancer.
CAPS (Cassis Polysaccharide): this substance, notably in juiced black currants, has been shown in recent and ongoing studies as powerful cancer cell toxin; may thus be used for cancer prevention; list of CAPS contained, black currants includes: glucose, xylose, galactose, rhamnose, arabinose, and mannose.
OPCs (Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins): unusual forms bioflavonoids, found especially in black currants; one of the most powerful antioxidants; easily absorbed, OPCs react quickly to counteract effects free radicals throughout body; health benefits are enormous and far reaching: augment circulation; reduce and even reverse impact illness from serious disease, including macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis and diabetes; lower stress; assist in preventing and driving back process of aging; energize body; increase vitamin and mineral absorption; strengthen brain function; protect cell membranes from damage, especially intestines and stomach, joints, respiratory and sinus cavities; recent studies show especially useful for weight loss; studies also show OPCs help prevent heart disease, improve health of gums and teeth; augment immunity; are anti-inflammatory, lowering water retention and swelling following surgery; reduce symptoms, allergies.
Glyconutrients: newly discovered group of nutrients, necessary to cell function throughout the body essential for body functions and health; fight infection, reduce symptoms fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, hepatitis C, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and menopause, among a long list diseases; help slow process aging.
Black Currant Seed Oil: seed oil extracted from black currants contains extremely unusual ‘essential’ Omega fatty acids (especially Omega 6) which are particularly rare among natural sources; act as anti-inflammatory; ‘essential’ as body must get them only from foods we eat; can be beneficial for treating inflammatory diseases including arthritis, and menstrual breast pain.
Topical Uses: applied to skin, black currants help treat eczema, insect stings, and dermatitis among a number of irritations.
Back Currant Juice & Smoothie Recipes
Currant Cucumber Delight!
1 pint fresh Black Currants
1 large Cuke – skin and all!
2 stalks Celery
Black Currant Apple Spice!
1 pint fresh Black Currants
2 Apples – core and skin
1/2 thumb of fresh Ginger
More recipes can be found in Juicing & Smoothie Recipes That Heal!available here in the box on the right, and for Kindle, Nook and iPad users at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iBooks.
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