Strawberries

Refreshing and aromatic, strawberries are really hard to resist when fully ripe. They are considered to be Wimbledon’s favorite fruit. During the 2014 Championships alone some 28,000 kg of strawberries were served with fresh cream! The fruit has been growing in Europe since the Roman Times. It was in 1714 however that a French engineer’s trip to Chile and Peru led to the revelation that the Latin American variety of the fruit was much larger. He brought back some seeds and started cultivating them in France. The result was a large, juicy and sweet hybrid, the modern strawberry. It is rich in antioxidant properties, vitamins C and K and an excellent source of fibre, folic acid, manganese and potassium. Try soaking fresh strawberries in sugar and Oliveology’s organic white balsamic vinegar with honey for 30 minutes and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.