Cherries sour

Hydroxycinnamic acids p-Coumaric acid Blueberries Cranberries Sweet cherries Sour cherries Orange juices Citrus Broccoli Eggplant Asparagus... 

Kim DO, Heo HJ, Kim YJ, Yang HS and Lee CY. 2005. Sweet and sour cherry phenolics and their protective effects on neuronal cells. J Agric Food Chem 53(26) 9921-9927. 

Szymczak, J.A., Plocharski, W.J., and Konopacka, D. 1998. The influence of repeated use of sucrose syrup on the quality of osmo-convectively dried sour cherries. In Drying 98 (C.B. Akritis, D. Marinos-Kouris, and G.D. Saravacos, eds), Vol. A, pp. 895-902. Ziti Editions, Thessaloniki, Greece. 

Cherries are normally classed as either sweet or sour. Sweet cherries are eaten straight from the tree and have either white or dark flesh. Skin color also varies from "white," which is actually usually flushed with scarlet, to very dark. Sweet cherries ripen in midsummer, sour cherries ripen slightly later. Sour cherries are grown for culinary use they are juicy but very tart if eaten raw. 

Like plums, cherries may be grown as informal, bushy trees or as fans however, sour cherries have quite complicated pruning requirements (see also below) when grown as a fan. Both may be bought partly trained in the fan form ask the nursery for advice on how to develop and maintain the shape. 

Again, as with plums (see p.302), always prune sour cherries in the growing season, not when dormant. 

Pick sweet cherries as soon as they are ripe either eat them immediately, refrigerate for a short time, or freeze. Sour cherries do not pull away easily from the tree and may need to be snipped off. Fruit is ready when very dark in color and soft to the touch. It can be used to make jam or wine, preserved in brandy, or cooked for immediate use or freezing. 

Peaches and nectarines are very similar to sour cherries in that they fruit on young wood, and are pruned in a similar way (seep.305). Carry out all pruning between late spring and early fall (see Plums,p.302). 

Occurs naturally in white sandlewood, sour cherries, peppermint leaves (1-10 ppb), tarragon, asparagus shoots, tea leaves, coffee beans, Japanese privet, tomatoes, licorice roots, and African palm oil (Duke, 1992). 

Key flavour Peach Nectarine P. persica Apricot Plum Sweet cherry Sour cherry... 

Key flavour compounds Peach P. persica) Nectarine P. persica var. nucipersica) Apricot P. armeniaca) Plum P. domestica) Sweet cherry P. avium) Sour cherry (P cerasus)... 

Cherries are divided into sweet cherries (Prunus avium) and sour cherries (Prunus cerasus). The majority of sweet cherry volatile compounds are alcohols, aldehydes, esters and acetic acid. Sweet cherry fruits contain many volatile... 

The typical flavour of sour cherries is produced during processing into wine, liqueur, juice, jam or fruit sauce. Benzaldehyde has been determined to be the most important aroma compound in sour cherries [82], but benzyl alcohol, eu-genol and vanillin are also important flavour compounds (Table 7.2, Fig. 7.5) [83]. Growing and storage conditions affect the concentration of benzaldehyde, benzyl alcohol, eugenol and vanillin [83, 84], and cold and rainy weather produces sour cherries with a less delicate sour cherry aroma [83]. 

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Bak I, Lekli I, Juhasz B, Nagy N, Varga E, Varadi J, Gesztelyi R, Szabo G, Szendrei L, Bacskay I, Vecsernyes M, Antal M, Fesus L, Boucher F, de Leiris J, Tosaki A. 2006. Cardioprotective mechanisms of Prunus cerasus (sour cherry) seed extract against ischemia-reperfusion-induced damage in isolated rat hearts. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 291 H1329-H1336. 

Major uses added to the Simazine 80W label included US southern turfgrass species for sod production, sugarcane, pineapple, and strawberry (1961) apple, sour cherry, macadamia nut, asparagus, orange, lemon, perennial grass grown... 

Simazine is an important weed control tool in cherry (Gilbert et al, 1965 Anderson, 1989) and in apricot. A combination of simazine and either oryzalin, norflurazon, or oxyfluorfen showed excellent weed control in sour cherry with no tree injury (Anderson, 1989). In California approximately 150 pounds of simazine were applied to 200A of cherry and apricot crops in 2004. 

Anderson, J.L. (1989). Effects of repeat annual applications of preemergence herbicides on sour cherry orchard weed control. Proc. West. Soc. Weed Sci., 42 209-211. 

Handful of dried sour cherries (less than Va cup), soaked in hot water for 20 minutes to plump, then drained Va cup chopped toasted organic pecans... 

Of all the fruits in the world, sour cherries are my favorite. I love their tartness, firm flesh, and dark wine—colored juice. The first stone fruit ofthe season, they always remind me that summerfinally has arrived. I love baking this tart and then eating it all myself. 

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