The cranberry is large-fruited fresh

Cranberry large - fruited - berries with bright red, dark and claret coloring, 2 - 2, 5 cm in size.

Berries of a cranberry contain lemon, benzole, cinchonic and ursolovy acids, vitamin C, sugar, other connections, useful to the person, and therefore are long since used with the medical purposes. As a part of a cranberry extremely high content of pectinaceous substances which are capable to connect and bring out of an organism radionuclides and compounds of heavy metals is revealed, and use of this property of berries is very perspective. The cranberries which are a part of berries large - fruited flavonoids (kvertitsin, etc. ) possess antioxidant activity and can be used in a complex of anti - inflammatory and anti - sclerous therapy. The benzole acid which is contained in a cranberry gives it bactericidal activity. The cranberry is used at rheumatism and a hypertensive illness.

The Pinsky cranberry plantation is put on May 26, 1985. Landing material is delivered generally from the United States of America.

Specialists of JSC Belorusskiye zhuravina perfectly know the production technology of a cranberry large - fruited. There is a complex of domestic cars for implementation of the production technology of berry and landing material, the part of which is collected directly at the enterprise. The cranberry plantation makes 84 hectares and constantly extends. 8 most widespread grades of a cranberry are grown up: Stephens, IAC - farlin, Sirlz, Bin - Lear, Early black, Pilgrim, Crowley and Hoves.

The top yield from 1 hectare made 30 tons of a cranberry. Berries clean in the wet and dry way.

Technological process of cleaning of a cranberry consists of the following processes:

• flooding of checks water,
• upholstery of berries heder on tractors,
• pulling up of berry bonds on water to the place of selection of berries on the trailer,
• delivery of berries to point of sorting,
• sorting of berries in a polyethylene container on classes,
• delivery of the sorted berry to a refrigerating complex,
• berry freezing in a chamber at ^{a temperature of - 180} With,
• rastarivaniye of the frozen berry in paper bags on 25 kg and on 1 kg.