Cranberry

Denominations

To Quebec, one says also cranberry or ataca , name of origin Amerindian.

The English term of “cranberry” is very much used in France, in particular the Milk industry prefers for trade names to rather propose yoghourts with the cranberry than with cranberry or cranberry.

Therapeutic qualities

The cranberry fruit is also recognized for its therapeutic qualities, some of its components contributing to decrease fixing, on the walls of the urinary tracts, certain bacteria Escherichia coli often responsible for infections.

Its proven effects remain however limited:

effectiveness to prevent the urinary infections, to soften the odor of the urine, to look after the light urinary infections! |date= .
possible effectiveness to look after or prevent the Gingivite and the Parodontite (ignition of the gums)! |date= .

The cranberry juice, enough little consumed in France but running to England or North America, uses in particular the composition of many cocktails (of which famous Cosmopolitan given to the last style thanks to the series TV Sex and the City). Its acidulous and astringent taste differentiates it from the other juices and nectars from fruits.

Collect and marketing

Formerly gathered in a wild state by the Indians of North America, the cranberries are cutivées in an increasingly intensive way in the United States. Called " beaters with oeufs" , as enormous machines serve to collect the cranberries according to an industrial technique known as " wet" (wet). The machines brew the water which recovers the shrubs planted in the marshes. Detached, the ripe fruits go back to surface. They should now be brought towards an edge of the peat bog. The farmers, in water to the knees, imprison the fruits in a floating roll. Teminée harvest, " bogs" will be drained and cleaned then, by a system of travelators, charged aboard the trucks. Harvest must join the warehouses of storage as soon as possible where it will be gauged and frozen. Created in 1930, the co-operative Ocean Spray is today the principal producing company of cranberries in the United States. It gathers 75% of the farmers and ensures the transport of harvests and the conditioning of the fruits. Only or mixed with apples or or grape, the cranberries are used with manufacture as fruit juice : more than ten million liters per annum. Export develops, in particular towards Great Britain. In 1993, collecting them collected 180 000 tons of fruits.

Looked after well, the seedlings of cranberries can produce during more than one hundred years.

Others

The group of Irish music the Cranberries car its name of cranberries (in English, cranberry ).

See too

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External bonds

Site of the Center of interpretation of cranberry in Center-of-Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Site of the Festival of cranberry of Villeroy to Center-of-Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Site of tourist of the MRC of Maple, Quebec, Canada
Site of Center-of-Quebec Tourism, Quebec, Canada

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