  Tuesday, January 22, 2013  A Venial Sin from Steve's Evil
Kitchen  Last time, I wrote about cruciferous vegetables, which
can be difficult to enjoy; this time it's a family of berries,
which is much easier.  There's a large group of compounds found
in red/purple/blue/black plants called anthocyanins and there's
considerable evidence that each of these has some health
benefit. It's not difficult to add one of these to your diet:
blackberry, cherry, raspberry, strawberry, mulberry, eggplant,
plum, red/purple grapes, red apple, red pear, red peppers,
purple potatoes, black currants, black beans, red beans, black
rice, beets, blueberry (and related huckleberry), cranberry,
lingonberry.  The last three of those are from a family of
plants that grow in northern climates. Blueberries are abundant
in the woods here in Minnesota (actually, north of where I am at
the moment) and cranberries grow in the bogs. Lingonberries are
related to cranberries and grow in mountains; common in
Scandinavia, they are available here