Sunberry - an amazing annual plant, in which the stem resembles the stem of a tomato, and the berries look like blueberries. In our country, the plant is not common, many of them do not know anything, and therefore there is conflicting information.
Description of the berry
Sunberry - It is a hybrid form of nightshade, its berries are edible and have many useful properties. 
Sunberry, or as it is otherwise called, the sunberry, is bred in 1905 Luther Burbank, American Darwinist Breeder. He took as a basis two types of nightshade: European creeping and African.
As a result a berry was obtained that gives high yields, large-fruited, unpretentious to growing conditions, with good taste.
Did you know? As gardeners joke, Sunberry seedlings need only one kettle with water. She does not need top dressing and plentiful waterings.Plant in height reaches 150 cm, has a powerful stalk and strong stepchildren. Large berries matte ink color clusters are collected in up to 10 pieces. Sunberry blooms until autumn, ripening berries goes to the first frost. Sunberry berries can be safely attributed to a product that has therapeutic and prophylactic properties.
Chemical composition and caloric content of the product
Sunberry can hardly be called a major source of vitamins, beneficial properties and contraindications caused mineral composition berries: calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, zinc, manganese, chromium, copper, vitamin C and provitamin A.
The solar berry is saturated with tannins, antioxidant nutrients (vitamin P) and pectins, which make up 15% of the fruit. 
Calorie berries enough is high: 100 g of product - 220 kcal.
Beneficial features
Sunberry has the following beneficial features:
- high pectin content - removes toxic substances from the body;
- anthocyanins have a positive effect on blood composition and quality;
- selenium - prolongs the youth of the body;
- there is a strengthening of the body;
- possesses anti-cold and antiseptic properties;
- is cancer prevention;
- normalizes digestion;
- used as a mild laxative;
- increases visual acuity;
- irreplaceable help with diseases of the joints.
Solar berry application
The fruits of nightshade have been widely used. Valuable qualities of the plant are used as a means of internal and external use.
The fruits and leaves of the plant help to prolong the body's youth, relieve insomnia, and treat skin diseases.
Accelerate the process of recovery in osteochondrosis, atherosclerosis, asthma, rheumatism. Fruits and juice from sunberry have a number of healing properties.
Did you know? The overripe fruit of the sunberry is very soft, but it never dries out and does not rot!
For prevention and treatment
Nightshade berries have a positive effect on metabolic processes, normalize the work of all organs and systems. 
They contain a large number of beneficial compounds that affect the body and rejuvenate skin:
- used in the treatment of colds and viral diseases - berries have a high content of vitamin C;
- as a rinse in the treatment of angina, for this fruit juice is diluted with water 1: 3;
- help the liver;
- are natural sorbent, nightshade is indispensable for poisoning;
- recommended for the treatment of gastritis and colitis;
- the sap of the leaves of the plant can cure a runny nose even in a chronic condition;
- beneficial micro and macronutrients renew the blood and improve its quality;
- increases the elasticity of blood vessels;
- Vitamin A contained in berries has a beneficial effect on visual acuity;
- improve memory;
- 30-40 g nightshade act as a mild laxative;
- when mixed with kefir berries help to get rid of small wounds on the skin, abscesses, boils;
- improve skin regeneration in eczema, psoriasis, seborrhea. To do this, mix the nightshade with the egg and apply this mixture to the affected skin;
- used in the treatment of cystitis;
- normalize blood pressure;
- help with stomach cramps;
- used in diseases of the bladder;
- eliminate headaches;
- increase endurance of the body.
Melon, black currant, enoter, mandarins, cloudberries, saffron and mountain ash are proven to have a tonic and rejuvenating effect.
Culinary recipes from sunberry
You can use the following recipes for making sunberry jam. Jam long storage:
- Sunberry fruits - 1 kg;
- lemon - 2 pieces;
- water - 1 cup;
- sugar - 1 kg;
- mint - at will.
Ripe nightshade to sort, hold for five minutes in boiling water. Drain the water, and put the nightshade in boiling syrup. Boil no longer than five minutes. Remove jam from heat, let cool. Repeat the process two or three times.At the final stage, add the juice of 2 lemons, mint for flavor. Jam in a hot state pour in banks, roll up.
Live Jam:
- Sunberry fruits - 1 kg;
- apples - 1 kg;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- sugar - 2 kg;
- mint - at will.
Add crushed lemon and a sprig of mint. Fall asleep with sugar. The resulting mass is left for five hours. Mix until smooth and lay out in prepared containers. Jam stored in a cold place.Jam:
- Sunberry fruits - 1.5 kg;
- sugar - 1,350 kg.
Hot jam poured over the banks, roll up. 
Harmful properties
It is necessary to understand that the sunberry berries, in addition to benefit, can also bring harm. You should not try the nightshade until it ripens, as the fruits in this state are harmful to the body.
It should also be remembered that the consumption of large quantities (up to 300 g per day) of fruits causes disruptions in the digestive system, diarrhea, and not worth they can be consumed by pregnant women, as they cause uterine contractions.
Important! Sunberry berries cause drowsiness, affect concentration.Sunberry has unique healing properties, but there are also contraindications for its use.
For example, idiosyncrasy, allergies. It is necessary to be extremely careful not to harm either yourself or your loved ones.
Features of the collection and preparation of useful berries
Nightshade can be stored in a cool place for a month. 
Berries have a specific solanaceous aftertaste, which is not much to taste. In order to remove it, it is necessary to scald the fruit with boiling water.
Important! The sunberry plant absorbs heavy metals from the soil, which later end up in the berries. For this reason, they are not grown on the territory of the city, but only on the dacha plots - away from the roads.
- Dried fruit. Nightshade sorted out, washed, when the moisture is drained - spread on the fabric in one layer. Fruits are mixed from time to time for better drying of berries. In places well lit by the sun, the nightshade is not dried, as it loses its useful qualities.
- Frozen fruits. The washed and well dried berries are laid out on a flat surface and frozen. Frozen nightshade packaged in batches. Store in this form can be no more than a year.
- Sugar freeze. Pure and dried sunberry is poured with sugar (1 kg of nightshade: 300 g of sugar), mixed, laid out in portions in bags or containers.
Sunberry, or sun berry - A useful garden plant, and there will always be fans to eat it. But it, like other medicinal plants, requires intelligent application.
