Organic strawberry – The berry beauty queen
Barely any other fruit goes so well on top of a wonderfully light sponge base as this juicy red summer fruit! The fragrance of ripe strawberries represents pure joy and generates a carefree summer mood in an instant. The popular berry also unleashes the much-loved, completely natural aroma in a number of lavera products, thus making for a fruity-sweet treatment session.
The queen of berries
The “Fragaria vesca”, which is its botanical name, is a perennial plant with small white flowers and the familiar red fruits , which belongs to the rose family. Who knew? The red, juicy fruits aren’t actually berries at all, rather they are aggregate fruits. For the actual fruits are in fact not the red, aromatic fruity flesh, but the small yellow seeds on the surface of the strawberries. Even more astonishing is the long history of the red berries: in the Stone Age, wild strawberries were already a popular foodstuff enjoyed by our forefathers.
The wonderfully sweet fragrance reminds us of a carefree summer’s day outdoors, and instantly lifts the mood. However, it is not just its fragrance that makes it inimitable – there’s plenty going on inside as well: it is full of valuable nutrients (including potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, copper and phosphorus) as well as important dietary fibre and other vitamins.
As such, the red power berries are a healthy and light snack, which simply bring joy! Did you know that the wild strawberry has one of the highest vitamin C contents of any fruit?
However, organic strawberry extracts have even more to offer, aside from their intensely fruity aroma: they have an anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effect.