An exotic fruit so it seems. Lets have a closer look at the redcurrant to try and see what the hoopla is all about. This fruit is grown in western Europe. The countries that you can find them in is France, Belgium, the Netherlands. Then you can also find the fruit in Germany and Italy as well. They grow  to be almost 2 m and with about five leaves. The flowers that sprout are a yellowish green color.

Then with all that they produce the fruit of it all is a beautiful bright red berry that is about 8-12 mm in diameter and there is a3-10 berries on each one.

You can also find them in places like Asia and North America, including Alaska and Newfoundland. Although it looks like it would be a deliciously sweet fruit it is actually more bitter than it’s black cousin the blackcurrant. The blackcurrant is mainly used for medicine. Which includes a laxative, fever reducer, helping with menstrual flow and blood cleansing. It contains large amounts of vitmain C. They were first produced in Belgium and also in Northern France back in the 1600’s.

There are many home remedies for the red currants. Some of them include placing skinned red currants in boiling water and then wrap and used for sore eyes. Then in other places, they use them for the common cold, the flu and tuberculosis.

You can eat them with just about anything. Eat them as you would any other berry including cherries and raspberries. Put them into a bowl of corn flake cereal and

almonds. You can find them dried like raisins and they can be replaces for raisins in dishes that call for raisins. Fresh currants can be refrigerated for up to about four days before they start to become bad. You can find them in harvest during the months of June through August.

Whether you need something to help reduce your fever and even heal your puppy’s eyes. Perhaps you are looking for something tasty to add to your new dish besides raisins. Then of course there is that occasional craving for something other then milk to invite into your bowl of Cheerios. There are so many ways to use this medical fruit whether you are eating it, or treating an ailment. The red currant, a beautiful, bitter tiny berry of many wonders.

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