Health Benefits
Home » Health Benefits
USA Blueberries
Enjoy the health benefits, versatility, convenience, and deliciousness of blueberries all year-round!
Adding a one-cup serving of blueberries a day is an easy way to boost your daily nutrition.
FRESH
Health Messaging:
- In just 80 calories, a one-cup serving delivers crave-worthy flavor and beneficial vitamins and minerals, including four essential nutrients and phytonutrients.
- Blueberries are a good source of fiber (3.6 grams per serving), which helps support heart health and digestive health, helping you feel full and stay “regular.”
- Blueberries are a good source of vitamin C (16% DV per serving), an antioxidant that helps support a healthy immune system and protect cells from free radical damage.
- Blueberries contribute essential nutrients like vitamin K to support bone metabolism and regulate blood clotting and manganese to help convert protein, carbohydrates, and fat into energy.
- A growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that blueberries can be part of eating patterns to improve cardiovascular health, especially as part of an overall healthy lifestyle.
- Including blueberries in your diet may help manage your diabetes.
- Blueberries contain phytonutrients called polyphenols. This group includes anthocyanins, plant compounds that give blueberries their beautiful blue color.
- According to the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Indians are recommended to consume one portion of fruit (100 grams) in a day. Just 1 cup (a handful) is considered one serving of fruit.
- Blueberries are a simple solution to boost your daily fruit intake.
Versatility and Convenience Messaging:
- Blueberries require no slicing or peeling—and there is no waste.
Blueberries are available year-round, in more forms – fresh, frozen, dried, and more.
A growing body of evidence shows that blueberries can help improve overall health, when incorporated into a healthy lifestyle.
FROZEN
Health Messaging
- Easy to store and easy to love, frozen blueberries are a great way to help your clients meet the recommended daily intake of fruits and vegetables.
- Like fresh blueberries, frozen blueberries are a good source of fiber, and contain only 80 calories per cup.
- Research is examining how blueberries can be part of eating patterns that support brain health, especially as part of an overall healthy lifestyle.
- Research illustrates that including blueberries in your diet offers health benefits that help manage diabetes.
Versatility and Convenience Messaging:
- Frozen blueberries are a convenient and cost-effective way to help you (or your clients/customers) eat nutritiously. They are frozen at the peak of freshness, locking in their healthy goodness.
- Having frozen blueberries on hand is a huge time-saver since you can buy them well in advance of using them.
- Pop a carton of fresh blueberries into the freezer and use it within 10 months. Simply rinse and thaw to enjoy.
- Frozen blueberries perk up plain yogurt or oatmeal and add natural sweetness, so you don’t need added sugar.
- Swap sweetened yogurts, smoothies, cereals, or oatmeal for unsweetened versions and add blueberries to get all the great taste without the added sugar.
- Blueberries get harvested, pre-cooled, washed, dried, and packed in poly-lined cartons; IQF berries are individually quickly frozen prior to packing.
There are endless ways to enjoy blueberries to add a boost of blue to every day.
DRIED
Health Messaging
- Blueberries are easily accessible and provide key vitamins and minerals.
- Blueberries make an easy, tasty, and nutrient-rich addition to your favorite meals and recipes.
Versatility Message:
- Dried blueberries are great for pairing; try a handful with nuts, yogurt, granola, peanut or almond butter toast, cheese, or a protein bar for a robust snack or mini-meal.
- Blueberries are deliciously simple to incorporate in traditional sweets like Laddu, Chikki, Kheer, Khoya Sweets.
- Grab a boost of blue to liven up any meal or snack. Blueberries taste equally delicious in salads, snacks, entrees, cocktails, or straight from the package.