Find out how cranberry juice is useful and how to cook it in a blender, slow cooker. Also read various fruit drink recipes with the addition of healthy berries and other products.
- Cranberry juice is a natural storehouse of vitamins. This drink nourishes the body with energy, gives vigor, perfectly quenches thirst, restores strength after a hard day's work.
- Such a drink is especially useful during the period when it is not the season for fresh fruits and vegetables. It is at the time in which the body is especially susceptible to infections (autumn, winter, spring)
- It is good if you prepare the drug yourself, and not buy it in supermarkets. After all, home-made preparations are always more useful than store-bought ones. We will talk further about how to cook fruit drinks ourselves.
Is it possible to cranberry juice for pregnant, lactating, children?
Cranberry is one of the leaders among other fruits in the list of useful vitamins and elements in the composition. Therefore, doctors often recommend it to be used in the form of a fruit drink for pregnant women, nursing mothers and children.
Natural elixir contains:
- organic acids ( malic, cinchona, citric, benzoic, phenol carboxylic)
- vitamins ( B1, B6, B2, PP, B9, E)
- calcium,iron,potassium,magnesium, phosphorus,sodium
- carotene, flavonoids, tannins,polyphenol
- cellulose, pectin
Cranberries - composition of berries The benefits of cranberry juice for pregnant women
- When a woman is in an interesting position, the immune system is often weakened, problems with gums and teeth appear. Cranberry drink is a natural antibiotic, antiseptic. If you regularly drink it, then the gums will stop bleeding and caries will not develop.
- To avoid the risk of developing postpartum depression, psycho-emotional disorders, you need to drink fruit drinks. Thanks to him, nervousness will not develop, brain activity will improve
- Cranberry is an excellent natural diuretic, prevents the growth of all kinds of bacteria during urinary stagnation.
- Morse reduces blood pressure in hypertension, increases the elasticity of your blood vessels
- This drink reduces the risk of infectious pathologies, removes all kinds of puffiness
- If you have toxicosis, then cranberry juice reduces bouts of vomiting
- The benefits of the drink in the fight against varicose veins have been noticed
What are the restrictions for eating cranberry juice?
- If you have gastritis with high acidity, an ulcer or liver disease, then it is better to drink fruit drink, well diluted with water, in small quantities.
- When breastfeeding, you should gradually introduce fruit drinks into the diet and monitor the baby - if she is allergic to this drink, the same should be done when introducing the drink into the diet of the child himself
- Do not drink cranberry juice with sulfo drugs
- Use the juice with caution in urolithiasis pathologies
How to cook cranberry juice from frozen cranberries?
Preparing for the winter season, housewives try to stock up on vitamins for the winter by various methods. It’s great if the house has a freezer or a refrigerator with a spacious freezer.
You can put cranberries there in containers, and then in the cold season prepare healing drinks for various diseases, for prevention.
Frozen fruit drink recipe
Ingredients:
- Cranberries - 400 grams of the product
- Honey - a large spoon
- Sugar - 45 grams
- Water - 1 liter 700 grams
Cooking order:
- Place cranberries in a separate bowl, pour warm water, rinse, then rinse again in a colander under running water
- Mix clean berries with a glass of water, grind them in a blender
- Place the resulting mass in cheesecloth, squeeze into a separate container to get juice
- Mix the pulp separately with 1.5 water and sugar (you can add more sugar, be guided by your taste preferences). Put it on the stove, let it boil
- When the drink cools down to 40 degrees - strain, add honey to it, and then juice
IMPORTANT: With increased acidity, you need to add more water so that the fruit drink is not concentrated. If the drink irritates the walls of the stomach, stop drinking it.
How to make fruit drink from fresh cranberries?
In essence, making a fruit drink from fresh berries is not much different from making a drink from frozen ones. The procedure is the same. However, read on.
Recipe: Prepare one kilogram of fresh vitamin cranberries, one and a half liters of water, add sugar or honey to taste. First, separate the spoiled fruits, wash the cranberries. Then again pour half a glass of water, pour the berries into the container, blend the mass. Squeeze the juice out of it into a separate bowl. Boil the compote from the remains of the berries, add sugar or honey, when the water has cooled down, strain. Add juice to compote. Mix the liquids well, let the juice stand for a while (1-2 hours). Then sing.
How to cook cranberry juice in a slow cooker?
In order to do without pharmacy vitamins in winter, brew a cranberry drink and drink it for prevention periodically during an exacerbation of seasonal diseases. A simple method of preparing cranberry juice is to cook it in a slow cooker. To do this, place the already squeezed berries in the multicooker container, pour water, turn on the "Cooking" mode, when it boils, add sugar and switch to "Stewing" (ten minutes). Further, as in the above recipe, let cool, filter, mix with cranberry juice.
How to cook cranberry juice in a blender?
The blender serves as an auxiliary tool in the preparation of a cranberry drink.
Recipe: Mix three cups of fresh clean cranberries with a little water. Take a blender and chop the berries, beat them well. Then separate the juice, and dip the thick mass into boiling water in a saucepan (1.5 liter). Leave boiling juice on low heat for 5 minutes, add sugar. When cool, strain, add the juice of one lemon, cranberry juice.
How to cook cranberry juice with honey?
Morse with honey has a rather pleasant, aromatic taste and smell. It must be prepared in the same way as described above. Only the composition will look like this:
- Cranberries - 550 grams
- Honey (May) - two large spoons
- Water - 1 liter 750 ml
Cranberry and raspberry juice recipe
In the summer, when raspberries ripen in the country, you can just get enough of it fresh, or you can close the useful juice in jars for the winter.
Recipe: Narvaet 750 grams of cranberries and 500 grams of raspberries. Sort spoiled berries, then wash them. Let the water drain. Place the berries in an enamel pan, add water, a glass of sugar. Cook like compote. Strain fruit drink, pour into sterile jars, sterilize again, roll up.
Recipe for cranberry and currant juice
The procedure for preparing a drink from cranberries, currants is the same as frozen cranberries. Only the composition varies, for fruit drink you will need:
- 400 grams of fresh, clean cranberries
- 150 grams of currant
- three liters of water
Recipe for cranberry and lingonberry fruit drink
Ingredients for fruit drink from lingonberries, cranberries:
- Cranberries 450 grams
- Cowberry 150 grams
- Sprinkle sugar to taste
- Water - three liters
The recipe is the same as in the previous paragraph.
IMPORTANT: Such fruit drink is not advisable for people suffering from the gastrointestinal tract with high acidity in the body.
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