Today’s “Dr. Oz Show” unleashed a new superfood to the masses. The dried white mulberry is a little sweetie that is packed with protein, fiber and antioxidants.
The stats on dried white mulberries are pretty impressive: an ounce of berries contains 16 percent of your fiber needs for the day, 3 grams of protein, 130 percent of your vitamin C, 20 percent of your iron and just 90 calories. It’s also high in resveratrol, a highly touted antioxidant found in red wine.
Today’s “Dr. Oz Show” spotlighted the leaves of the fruit as helping blood sugar spikes and inhibiting sugar digestion. For that you’d have to find mulberry leaf tea, which can be found in natural food stores and online. But today we’re more interested in the fruit, which admittedly looks a little buglike.
And like everything that falls under "The Dr. Oz Effect," you might want to find them today as they'll probably sell out online and in stores and get restocked at twice the price.
The dried berries are chewy like raisins but not as sweet, more like figs in flavor. You can use them the same way you’d use raisins or chopped figs – trail mix, in oatmeal, sprinkled over yogurt or baked into breads and muffins. You also can plump them up by pouring hot water over them and letting them reconstitute for a half hour.
The little gems, very popular in Turkey, are more pricey than raisins. A pound will set you back around $18 – but if you want to try them, you can find them in natural food stores and online. Terrasoul Superfoods sells a 1-pound bag online at Amazon for $17.79, and Navitas Naturals sells an 8-ounce bag for $10.99.
