Properties of sea buckthorn juice. Sea-buckthorn juice for the winter: recipe

Sea buckthorn is an amazing berry, which, thanks to its medicinal properties and appearance, was beautifully called the "golden queen". Amber-yellow fruits have a rather tart and unusual taste. Therefore, they are not used in its pure form. At home, useful raw materials are usually frozen, dried and processed into various drinks (mors, decoctions, compotes, etc.), jams, jam. This article contains several available recipes for making sea-buckthorn juice, including in combination with other berries and fruits (for example, apples, pears, grapes, apricots). The main properties of the drink, recommendations for use, contraindications - all this in a brief form is set out below.

Useful properties of sea-buckthorn juice

High content of vitamin C and carotene - the main feature of the drink. Due to this, it has a fairly tangible and rapid anti-inflammatory effect with regular use (especially in winter with diseases of cold infections). Sea buckthorn juice contains vitamins, organic compounds, protein, tannins. Due to the high concentration of fatty acids, the calorie content of freshly squeezed raw material (despite the average sugar content) reaches 82 Kcal per 100 g. Seabuckthorn is desirable to be consumed every day. But because of the tart taste, the juice or the decoction is still more pleasant. The most important factor is systematic. The approximate duration of treatment is 3 weeks (the usual dose of juice is ½ cup in the morning or evening after a meal), then you should take a break for 7 days and then take a second course of therapy.

At what diseases is it recommended to use juice?

Include this useful natural product (berries, drinks, jam, etc.) can be in your diet both for the purpose of treatment and for prevention. The form of application of a medicinal drink can be usual (internal reception in certain doses) and specific (external lotions, syringing, washing). We list the main diseases in which sea buckthorn juice is recommended:

• Female "problems" (douching with cystitis, infections, postpartum trauma, erosion);
• Skin diseases (herpes, allergies, eczema, burn injuries);
• hemorrhoids;
• Cough (especially successful treatment when combining sea buckthorn juice with honey);
• Toxic hepatitis, liver problems (cleansing with the use of a cocktail with pumpkin juice) ;
• Benign tumors (in the initial stage);
• Gastric diseases (gastritis, pre-ulcer state).

But despite all the usefulness and uniqueness of the juice from the "golden queen", some patients do not recommend its use.

Who is contraindicated in sea buckthorn juice?

First of all, very careful you need to be allergic, especially with carotin intolerance. High concentration of this substance, as well as essential oils can provoke skin rashes, itching, reddening of the mucous membranes. In order to avoid an unforeseen effect, start with small doses, gradually bringing them to the required proportions. Due to the choleretic properties of the drink can not be taken with hyperacid gastritis, increased acidity and stomach ulcer (and duodenal ulcer), systematic diarrhea. For the same reason, the juice is contraindicated in the acute stage of cholecystitis and pancreatitis. The decision to include products from berries in the diet should be abandoned to people who have a hereditary predisposition to cancerous tumors. If there are no contraindications to use, you can make sea buckthorn juice at home. Then this healing elixir will always be at hand.

Harvesting and preparation of berries

Before you make sea buckthorn juice for the winter, you need to know when and how to properly prepare raw materials. Some recommendations are given below. Terms of collection depend on the varietal origin of the berries:

1. Early sea buckthorn. Fruits ripen in early August, although the maximum concentration of nutrients is manifested in them only by the end of the month.
2. Late sea buckthorn. Depending on the climatic zone and weather conditions, the favorable time for harvesting ripened berries ranges from the end of September to the middle of October.

Ripe fruit bright color of a dense consistency. They easily come off the twigs. If the raw material is intended for the production of oil, then the berries need to be "overexposed", without tearing them off the branches, for about two weeks. Part of the berries can be removed together with the pedicels, from which then the useful tea is brewed from the increased pressure. To avoid pricking, choose the direction to remove the bunches from the base to the end. After the first frosts, the method of "shaking" is suitable, when a large cloth is spread under the tree and a stick is carried along the trunk with a stick. Crystallized berries are easily sprinkled. Harvested raw materials, remove the spoiled fruit, remove from twigs and pour warm water. After this, rinse several times in a cold and throw it into a colander.

Variants of preparation of a drink

Sea buckthorn juice for winter can be harvested in several ways. We list some of them:

• Distillation of raw materials through a juicer or juice processor;
• Preliminary wiping through a sieve, and then mixing with syrup;
• Brewing berries to soften and further filtering the juice;
• Mixing with other fruit drinks.

Let's consider a method of multistage processing of fruits of sea-buckthorn.

The first recipe for juice

1. Fill 1 kg of berries with 0.5 liters of water and let it boil for 20 minutes without boiling.
2. Rinse the softened fruits with a squeeze from the solution and wipe, then lay back.
3. Squeeze puffs with boiling water (for 1 kg of raw materials 1.5 cups of liquid) and leave for 2 hours.
4. Wipe the infusion and add about 500 g of sugar per 1 liter. Boil, cool and filter through a sieve.
5. Mix the broth with the juice of the first pressing in equal proportions.
6. Warm up to a temperature of 85-90 ° C and pour over the cans, sterilize.

It is quite difficult and long to prepare such sea-buckthorn juice. The recipe presented below is somewhat easier to perform.

Juice with pulp

Berries (1 kg), rinse, rinse and discard in a colander. Then place them on a table in a thin layer and allow to dry completely. Mass the wipe through a sieve to get a sea-buckthorn puree (do not throw away the coins, from them, in combination with other berries, you can cook a delicious compote). In 0.5 liters of water, boil 0.5 kg of sugar. The resulting syrup is mixed with the previously prepared mashed potatoes. Place the mass on the medium fire. Remove the film formed on the surface. This is a useful and valuable sea buckthorn oil that helps to treat diseases of the stomach and skin. After boiling, pour the juice over clean jars and put them to be sterilized for 15-20 minutes. Keep the preservation in a cool place. Before use, drink should be shaken, and if necessary diluted with boiled water. And how to cook sea-buckthorn juice without sugar? This is described further.

Recipe for "Juice without sugar"

Fans of tart taste will certainly like the way to preserve natural astringent "shades". To make the drink completely natural, you can prepare unsweetened sea-buckthorn juice. The recipe assumes the receipt of a concentrated beverage-semi-finished product, from which then you can successfully make other dishes - jelly, kissel, punch, etc. Clean and washed berries (2 kg) put in enameled dishes and smash with a wooden rolling pin. Then pour a mass of 0.5 liters of hot boiled water and put on fire. Cook for five minutes. Drain the liquid and press the squeezes out. Connect both components, bring to a boil and pour over small containers. Sterilize in the usual way.

Apple-sea-buckthorn drink

Tough taste of berries is not always like children. You can find a way out by mixing small portions of fruit or juice with yogurt, curd or ryazhenka or with other fruit drinks. Consider how to make sea buckthorn juice in combination with an apple.

1. Using a juicer, treat 2 kg of sweet, juicy apples and 0.5 kg of sea-buckthorn berries.
2. The resulting juice is mixed with the same volume of boiled water and 4 tbsp. Of sugar.
3. The drink can be consumed immediately. For storage for the winter, sterilize for 30 minutes, pouring on jars.

Healing berries of sea-buckthorn are a kind of immunomodulator, therefore uncontrolled consumption of any drinks from it can not always be beneficial. It is best to consult a doctor to determine the exact dose and duration of treatment for a particular disease.

At home, useful raw materials are usually frozen, dried and processed into various drinks (mors, decoctions, compotes, etc.), jams, jam. This article lists several recipes for making sea buckthorn juice, including in combination with other berries and fruits. The main properties of the drink, recommendations for use, contraindications - all this in a brief form is set out below.