Sand thorn (Hippophae of rhamnoides), also pasture thorn mentioned, is the only kind of the kind Hippophae within the family of the oil pasture plants (Elaeagnaceae).

Characteristics

It possesses a stature form and silvery-grey narrow feast-like sheets. The small yellowish blooms become in Central Europe approximately in April or May visible, by at the beginning of of August to at the beginning of of Decembers bring out the plant then the characteristic oval orange to yellow berries.

Spreading

Sand thorn often grows at mountain brooks (at a value of up to five kilometers), in addition, as pioneer plant in steppes and offshore dunes as well as ornamental plant in parks and gardens. The circulation area covers the coasts of north and Baltic Sea, the alpine area as well as the Karpaten in Europe, besides until Siberia and the People's Republic of China widen parts of Asia inside. The original homeland sand thorn is in Nepal. Ice-age shifts led then to the spreading on almost the entire globe.

Contents materials

Sand thorn berries have very high Vitamin a C-content: 200 to even 900 and more Milligramm ever 100 gram (depending upon sort). This exceeds a lemon or an orange (per about 50 Milligramm) around for instance the quadruple, only Hagebutten still lies above it with a content of 1250 Milligramm per 100 gram. In addition the sand thorn does not exhibit an important content of beta carotin and Gerbstoffen, to the raw benefit is suitable it however necessarily.

Whole fruits should be or be eaten anyhow with sugar and/or honey. Perhaps they are very sour roughly enjoyed and the small core can a bitter taste produce. One has today vouchers for the fact that sand thorn contains also Vitamin B12, which is to be found otherwise predominant in meat. Therefore sand thorn is particularly recommended as oil or in direct juices before heating up for Veganer and vegetarians as food addition, there they on Fleischvitamine do without and a outstanding, purely vegetable source of the Vitamins find here.

Products

In the form of sand thorn is very good finished to enjoy. With the purchase of sand thorn juice only direct juices should be selected. Frequently offered Nektare or mixing beverages (e.g. with apple juice etc.) is hardly recommended, since the portion of sand thorn juice is very high too small, the sugar content however. Side effects with the income of sand thorn oil or juice, also during long periods, are not well-known according to a study of the University of Dresden and Sofia.

The cores are used likewise for the production by high-quality vegetable oil for skin care products or food auxiliary means, like also the fruit meat oil more valuable from manufacturer view. Sand thorn fruit meat contains between 3 and 5% oil. Sand thorn oils are rich at several times insatiated fatty acids, have a very high portion of Karotine and to combine practically the entire Vitaminkomplex in itself.

One can call skin creams and skin oils, which were enriched with sand thorn oil, after newest realizations anti- Agingprodukte. Particularly the Vitamin E penetrates deeply into the skin cells. A natural UV filter (in connection with beta Carotin) is to be regarded as radical inhibitors thus preventing against premature skin aging and/or.

Sand thorn is offered today in a broad pallet. Due to difficult harvest conditions and the long start-up phase for future Plantagen (approx. 6-8 years up to the first harvest) sand thorn is a relatively expensive raw material. With the purchase of sand thorn products is recommended to look generally on the effort list and with a real specialist dealer and not in the supermarket or Souvenirshop, perhaps at the east or North Sea to buy. The fruit portion in bread upstrokes should amount to always at least 55% and more. Frequently sand thorn articles with Vitamin C are enriched. This Vitaminisierung witnesses from excessive thermal treatment or aromatizing. Products with additions of Vitamin C should remain therefore in the shelf! Likewise which remind in the taste of Maracuja and/or no similarity with oranges, thicken fruit juice have.

Cultivation

Sand thorn was cultivated for the first time in Germany end of the 60's in the former GDR. Fast one recognized the high Vitaminanteil as good contribution to the public health, why research funds were made available to the institutes. Thus innovative harvesting methods could be developed. One had brought some new sorts out by mutation and breeding. The actual positive impact of the contents materials contained in the sand thorn was proven in clinical studies. End of the 80's co-operation with Eastern European universities and producers were entered. China is considered today as a largest producer of sand thorn also over 1 million hectare cultivated area. One can call Germany with few hundred hectares developing country. However the most inventions and breed success go on the account of German scientists.

Other

Mention finds the sand thorn in Nina Hagens hit you the color film forgot, which was published 1974 ("“high stood the sand thorn at the beach of Hiddensee"…"”).

Entry in Meyers K. - encyclopedia 1888/90

Hippophae L. (sand thorn), kind from the family of the bushes or small trees with often branches running out in thorns, alternating, very much by Schelferschuppen whitish-grey sheets, before these appearing blooms in short ears, pulled into the length, which extend usually into a branch of leaves, and nut-like Scheinfrucht. H.rhamnoides L. (sea-thorn, sea-cross thorn, pasture thorn, Rhine thorn), 2.5-3 m a high bush with spread, thorny branches and numerous root from runners around-creeping far under the soil. The sheets are nearly 5 - 5.5 cm long, on the lower surface silver-grey, the blooms small, orange or rust-yellow, by brown schelferigen, void cover lamellas supported at the sides of the branches numerous short, compact forming; the fruit is pea-largely, gold yellow oderorangegelb and remains the whole winter over hanging. The bush grows at the coasts of Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean, at river bank, particularly on the Rhine, also in the northern Asia and in the Caucasus. It forms nearly impenetrable hedges and fences and is suitable particularly also at the sea-coasts for the connection of the flight sand and the In park plants it is cultivated to the Zierde. The wood, which can be pickled beautifully, serves for Drechslerarbeiten. In Finland, Lappland and that Mongolia uses one the harsh-sour fruits as additive to some meals.

Related links

• Detailed information for the harvest and use of sand thorn
• Welfare plant sand thorn
• Plant-tap for the self-cultivation
• Small berries with large effect
• Scientific papers "“old and new of the sand thorn"”

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