Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges. One cup of berries will give you 140% of your recommended daily vitamin C intake.
Strawberries can lower the risk of cancer and heart disease.
Eight strawberries contain 20% of the folic acid you should consume every day.
Combined with honey, strawberry juiced rubbed over the skin will help reduce inflammation and sunburn.
Strawberries are also almost completely fat free.
Strawberry Trivia
Strawberries are the only fruit that has seeds on the outside.
94% of all US households eat strawberries.
Madam Tallien, a prominent French figure, was famous for her baths in strawberry juice. She did this to make her skin glow.
In Belgium, there is a museum just for strawberries.
More than 53% of all five-seven year olds said that strawberries were their favourite fruit.
The average strawberry will have as many as 200 seeds.
If all the strawberries produced in California this year were placed berry to berry, the line of strawberries would go around the world 15 times.
Native American Indians used to pound strawberries onto their bread, and when colonists tasted this, they decided to create their own version. This is now what we call strawberry shortcake.
It was Dr. William Butler who said that “Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did’.
