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

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Sea buckthorn is an amazing berry, which, due to its healing properties and appearance, has received the beautiful name "golden queen". Amber-yellow fruits have a rather tart and unusual taste. Therefore, they are not used in their pure form. At home, useful raw materials are usually frozen, dried and processed into various drinks (fruit drinks, decoctions, compotes, etc.), jams, preserves. This article provides several affordable 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 is summarized below.

Useful properties of sea buckthorn juice

The high content of vitamin C and carotene is the main feature of the drink. Due to this, with regular use, it has a rather tangible and rapid anti-inflammatory effect (especially in winter whencold 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 materials (despite the average level of sugar content) reaches 82 Kcal per 100 g. It is advisable to use sea buckthorn every day. But because of the tart taste, juice or decoction is still more pleasant. The most important factor is consistency. The approximate duration of treatment is 3 weeks (the usual dose of juice is ½ cup in the morning or evening after meals), then you should take a break for 7 days, and then repeat the course of therapy.

For what diseases is it recommended to use juice?

You can include this useful natural product (berries, drinks, jam, etc.) in your diet for both treatment and prevention. The form of application of a healing drink can be ordinary (internal intake in certain doses) and specific (external lotions, douching, washing). We list the main diseases for which sea buckthorn juice is recommended:

• female "problems" (douching for cystitis, infections, postpartum trauma, erosion);
• skin diseases (herpes, allergies, eczema, burn injuries);
• hemorrhoids;
• cough (treatment is especially successful when sea buckthorn juice is combined with honey);
• toxic hepatitis, liver problems (cleansing with pumpkin juice cocktail);
• benign tumors (in the initial stage);
• gastric diseases (gastritis, pre-ulcerative condition).

But despite all the usefulness and uniqueness of the juice from the "Golden Queen", some patients are not recommended to use it.

Who is sea buckthorn juice contraindicated for?

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

Collecting and preparing 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. Harvest time depends on the variety of the berry:

1. Early sea buckthorn. The fruits ripen in early August, although the highest concentration ofuseful substances appear 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 picking ripe berries ranges from late September to mid-October.

Ripe fruits of bright color with dense consistency. They easily come off the branches. If the raw material is intended for the production of oil, then the berries need to be “overexposed”, without tearing from the branches, for about two weeks. Part of the berries can be removed along with the stalks, from which he althy tea is then brewed from high blood pressure. To avoid injections, choose the direction of removal of bunches from the base to the end. After the first frost, the “shaking off” method is suitable, when a large canvas is spread under the tree and tapping with a stick on the trunk is carried out. Crystallized berries crumble easily. Sort the prepared raw materials, removing the spoiled fruits, remove from the branches and fill with warm water. After that, rinse several times in cold water and drain in a colander.

Drink options

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

• distillation of raw materials through a juicer or juicer;
• preliminary rubbing through a sieve, and then mixing with syrup;
• boiling berries to soften and further filtering the juice;
• mixing with other fruit drinks.

Let's consider the method of multi-stage processing of sea buckthorn fruits.

First juice recipe

1. Pour 1 kg of berries into 0.5 liters of water and soak without boiling for 20 minutes.
2. Remove the softened fruit from the solution with a slotted spoon and wipe, then put it back.
3. Pour the pomace 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 decoction with the juice of the first extraction in equal proportions.
6. Heat to a temperature of 85-90°C and pour into jars, sterilize.

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

Juice with pulp

Berries (1 kg) sort, rinse and drain in a colander. Then lay them out on the table in a thin layer and let dry completely. Wipe the mass through a sieve to obtain sea buckthorn puree (do not throw away the squeezes, you can cook delicious compote from them in combination with other berries). Boil 0.5 kg of sugar in 0.5 liters of water. Mix the resulting syrup with the previously prepared puree. Put the mass on medium heat. Remove the film that forms on the surface. This is a useful and valuable sea buckthorn oil, which helps to treat diseases of the stomach and skin. After boiling, pour the juice into clean jars and set them to be sterilized for 15-20 minutes. Store preserves in a cool place. Before use, the drink should be shaken, and if necessary, diluted with boiled water. How to make sea buckthorn juice without sugar? This is discussed below.

RecipeSugar Free Juice

Astringents will surely love the way the natural astringent "hues" are preserved. To make the drink completely natural, you can prepare unsweetened sea buckthorn juice. The recipe involves obtaining a concentrated semi-finished drink, from which you can then successfully make other dishes - jelly, jelly, punch, etc. Place clean and washed berries (2 kg) in an enamel bowl and mash with a wooden rolling pin. Then fill the mass with 0.5 liters of hot boiled water and put on fire. Boil for five minutes. Drain the liquid and press out the squeezes. Combine both components, bring to a boil and pour into small containers. Sterilize normally.

Apple-sea buckthorn drink

Children don't always like the tart taste of the berry. You can find a way out by mixing small portions of fruit or juice with yogurt, cottage cheese or fermented baked milk or other fruit drinks. Consider how to make sea buckthorn juice in combination with an apple.

1. Use a juicer to process 2 kg of sweet, juicy apples and 0.5 kg of sea buckthorn berries.
2. Mix the resulting juice with the same volume of boiled water and 4 tbsp. granulated sugar.
3. Drink can be consumed immediately. For winter storage, sterilize for 30 minutes in jars.

Healing sea buckthorn berries are a kind of immunomodulator, so the uncontrolled use of any drinks from it may not always be beneficial. It is best to consult a doctor to determineexact doses and duration of treatment for a particular disease.

At home, useful raw materials are usually frozen, dried and processed into various drinks (fruit drinks, decoctions, compotes, etc.), jams, preserves. This article provides 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 is summarized below.