Fresh Sour Cherries

Fresh sour cherries

Below are some facts about cherries:

1/2 cup cherries (raw, sweet) contains:

40 cal;
.7 gm protein  (incomplete);
.17 gm fat;
10 gm carbohydrate;
12 mg  calcium;
11 mg phosphorus;
.2 mg iron;
109 mg potassium;
62 units A;
.03 mg B-1;
.03 mg B-2;
.228 mg niacin; 
5.7 mg C;
8 mg magnesium.

Fresh sour cherries have over nine  times the vitamin A content of sweet cherries. All varieties  have a good supply of copper and manganese, both of  which are needed for the proper development of bones.  They have a medium calorie count and are low in rough  age. They make a good dessert or after school snack in  place of cookies or candies. However, leave that maraschino cherry in the bottom of your Manhattan glass. It is over sweetened and processed and the coloring agent  used is one that has been removed from use by the FDA  for all except this coloring purpose because of possibly detrimental side effects.