Elderberries

Elderberry Health Benefits

The berries and flowers of elderberry are packed with antioxidants and vitamins that may boost your immune system. They could help tame inflammation, lessen stress, and help protect your heart, too.

Some experts recommend elderberry to help prevent and ease cold and flu symptoms.

It’s also been used as a treatment for:

•  Constipation
•  Joint and muscle pain
• Infections that affect how you breathe
•  Headaches
•  Fever
•  Kidney problems
•  Epilepsy
• Minor skin conditions
•  Stress
•  HIV and AIDS

Elderberry Effectiveness

Elderberry gets a lot of support as a healing agent through word of mouth and old wives’ tales, but its success in medical tests is less definite.

In other words, if you want to fight the flu, don’t forget your flu shot.

Still, many doctors say it’s safe to take elderberry as part of a healthy diet plan that includes foods with vitamin B, vitamin B6, and vitamin E.

Elderberry Nutrition

Elderberries are high in vitamin C (52.2 milligrams per cup) and dietary fiber (10.2 grams per cup). One cup of elderberries also has:

• 26.7 grams of carbs
• 0.7 grams of fat
• 1 gram of protein

Elderberry is an antioxidant, and researchers think the compound that makes it blue lowers inflammation.