Cranberry drink: advantage and harm

The advantage of cranberry drink is known for a long time. Today it is recognized even as official medicine which representatives recommend to take regularly drink to people with the weakened immunity and some accompanying pathologies.

From article you learn about this remarkable drink in more detail.

Caloric content and chemical composition

The biochemical structure of cranberry berries caused improving properties of the drink produced them them.

Enter it:

• 0.7% are the antioxidant pectins neutralizing the heavy metals which got into a human body;
• 3.5% are acids of organic origin (benzoic, wine, lemon, cinchonic, oxalic, apple);
• 5% are ingredients of useful sugar (glucose, sucrose, fructose). The substances which are natural carbohydrates are incomparable with usual granulated sugar and are completely acquired by an organism.

Whether you know? The scientific name of a cranberry oxycoccus comes from the Greek words oxis – sharp, sour, and coccus – spherical, that is literally it can be translated as a sour ball.

The power value of a product (on 100 grams):

Proteins	0.32 g
Fats	0.19 g
Carbohydrates	9.97 g
Caloric content	41.50 kcal (173 kJ)

Vitamin and mineral indicators of fruit drink (chemical composition):

Group B vitamins	0.68 mg
With	13.3 mg
PP	0.15 mg
E	1.2 mg
To	5.1 mkg
Beta carotene	40 mkg
Biotin	0.1 mg
choline	5.5 mg
Silicon	4.2 mg
Potassium	85 mg
Calcium	8 mg
Sodium	89 mg
Vanadium	5.9 mkg
Pine forest	120 mkg
Phosphorus	12.9 mkg
Manganese	380 mkg
Cobalt	1.45 mkg
Rubidium	44 mkg
Molybdenum	5 mkg
Lithium	3.5 mkg

Learn in what the advantage of a cranberry for a human body is concealed: dried, fresh berry, a cranberry with honey.

Than cranberry drink is useful

Useful properties of fruit drink from a cranberry first of all are shown in rare ability to suppress virus, and in some situations and the bacterial influences causing in the person of inflammation of bodies and fabrics.

For men

Cranberry drink has indisputable positive effect on a male body. Existence of a large amount of active agents in red berries allows to eliminate the arisen inflammatory processes, affecting health of the man. Quite often urologists appoint fruit drink as supportive application at treatment of prostatitis and for normalization of sexual function.

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For women

The sweet-sour fruit drink made in due form is especially useful to women – at early age drink contributes to the optimum development and growth, on average and elderly – prolongs youth and gives forces.

Besides, cranberry drink:

• exempts a body from toxins, slag connections and stagnant liquid;
• adjusts work of heart and vessels during the periods of a stress or hormonal reorganizations (pregnancy, a climax);
• prevents urinogenital female diseases;
• improves health during plentiful periods and preunconscious states accompanying them.

For children

Cranberry drink is considered one of main in a children's food allowance therefore many years it is successfully used for increase in appetite, vitality, maintenance at the appropriate level of the immune system. Besides, thanks to it the child is quickly restored after a heavy and/or long illness.

Pediatric recommendations assume introduction of cranberry juice or fruit drink to infantile food after 6-month development (since two drops with gradual increase).

Whether you know? About four decades ago cranberry juice began to be applied successfully on shooting of thrillers and a horror movies – as the blood simulator.

The appointed additional vitamin and mineral source will reduce risks of development:

• rickets;
• avitaminosis;
• growth inhibitions;
• golden staphylococcus;
• colibacillus;
• anthrax bacilli.

Whether it is possible and from what helps

Fruit drink from a cranberry is capable to sate an organism of any person with a necessary vitamin and mineral complex and nutrients, however for people of a different physical state and category (suffering from any disease, to the women bearing the child or in the period of a lactation) drink is shown in strictly certain quantities, or is contraindicated in general.

At pregnancy

During pregnancy future mother and the kid growing in it more than ever need serious vitamin feed. For this reason cranberry drink is almost irreplaceable product in the improving pregnant diet.

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Let's consider, than drink at this stage is quite so useful:

• in the first trimester eliminates toxicosis symptoms (nausea, vomiting), due to pleasant sourish smack;
• increases elasticity of small and large vessels that provides continuous inflow of oxygen to the developing embryo;
• the flavonoids which are in structure of fruit drink prevent fetoplatsentarny insufficiency;
• helps to acquire better the folic acid and iron necessary for the correct formation of a brain and nervous system of a fruit;
• on late terms of incubation – minimizes risk of development of urinogenital pathologies;
• is medicine from hypostases of various degree (venous varicosity);
• eliminates infectious dental damages of a mouth (gums quickly cease to bleed, active development of caries stops).

Fully to test all advantage of cranberry drink and to prevent the accompanying illnesses, gynecologists recommend to use the special recipe of drink for pregnant women: a glass of tasty berries to wash and knead a spoon, carefully to filter the emitted juice. The turned-out dense gruel to fill in 1 l of boiled water, it is good to mix and put on fire before boiling. It is desirable for ready drink to allow to infuse before the use within 30 minutes.

When breastfeeding

Fruit drink from cranberry berries is a valuable source of the substances irreplaceable at feeding of the baby (lactation).

Its regular reception not only diversifies very limited diet at GV, but also in addition:

• will strengthen inflow of milk at the feeding mother;
• will help to remove a postnatal depression;
• will significantly improve a condition of hair and teeth.

Learn more about breastfeeding.

At cystitis

Infection of a bladder with viruses and/or bacteria – the main reason for cystitis. Urological experience demonstrates that the disease of urinogenital bodies should treat in stationary conditions under medical control.

However at the initial stage with this pathology it is quite possible to fight also at home, using traditional national medicine – cranberry drink. The major role is played here by the cranberries which are contained in structure benzoic acid and phenols – they very quickly begin to oppress the appeared pathogenic microbes. Under their influence the microorganisms do not manage to be hooked for walls of mucous and to continue further reproduction.

The powerful effect of cranberry drink all-strengthening and anti-inflammatory, not only helps from various urinogenital defeats and cystitis, but also brings benefit for work of kidneys, without causing at the same time to other internals any harm. Also the product is often used as supportive application for treatment of nephrite, an ureteritis and the glomerulonefrit.

At cold

Thanks to the structure saturated with minerals and vitamins, steamed berries show active resistance to catarrhal diseases in their initial manifestations. The heavy symptomatology decreases many times quicker – the sick person feels retreat of a disease literally for 2–3 day.

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At a temperature

Fruit drink from a cranberry – one of the first folk remedies which are appropriate at temperature increase of a body. Berry is a rich source of vitamin C that does it by the main fighter against fever.

Also made drink easily will save from high temperature of the small child at whom the indicator of the thermometer reaches a point of 40 °C or more.

At a tonsillitis

With infectious diseases of a throat, especially catarrhal or purulent tonsillitis, drink from a cranberry copes also effectively, as well as with common cold. However it is necessary to use this product only as additional supportive application – the main treatment surely has to consist of more serious antibacterial medicines.

At a tonsillitis look narrowly to sanberr, a calendula, a bird cherry, pink salt.

At gastritis, pancreatitis

If gastritis passes against the background of the lowered acidity, then cranberry juice or fruit drink influences struck mucous a stomach highly.

Antiseptic properties of its components help against the main causative agent of gastritis and ulcer defeats – a microbe a helikobakter. The fruits which are selected for preparation have to be fresh, not green and not resung.

At pancreatitis cranberry drinks are necessary in moderate doses and only in quiet times of permanent remission. Aggravations signal about need of refusal of the use of a product as the acids which are contained in it can provoke a strong meteorizm and painful disorders of a GIT.

At pyelonephritis

At pyelonephritis fruit drink will allow to achieve two objectives at once:

• will carry out cleaning processes of an organism and will facilitate work of kidneys;
• the bactericidal structure will wash out and will moisten the infected renal fabric.

Important! At sharp manifestations of a disease (high temperature, a nagging pain in a waist) it is necessary to see a doctor as soon as possible. Independent treatment is in that case contraindicated, and cranberry drinks join in a special diet only as the additional all-strengthening tool.

With a high pressure

Popular drink from fruits of a cranberry is capable to save the person from elevated pressure gradually.

The positive effect is shown due to useful properties of sweet-sour berries:

• blood capillaries under the influence of flavonoids become strong and elastic that leads to improvement of a blood-groove and to normalization of work of a cardiovascular system;
• diuretic components remove from an organism excess liquid together with slags and toxins, purify blood from harmful cholesterol.

At the same time active agents do not wash away potassium, and on the contrary, normalize its contents and unload a cardiac muscle.

At gout

Most of doctors strongly recommend to refrain from cranberry drink that who has gout – at least until the level of uric acid in plasma of blood does not come to the necessary norm.

At poisoning

Due to ability of salutary fruits to fight successfully against pathogenic microflora, fruit drink is very good at frivolous food frustration. But on the serious poisoning caused by rotten meat, stagnant dairy products or a helminthic invasion, its action, unfortunately, does not extend.

Pay attention to an algorithm of actions at food poisoning.

At a diarrhea

In this case the cranberry well improves all digestive tract. Thanks to universal antiseptic property the prepared drink is not a purgative and affected intestines do not fix, and evenly recover functioning of all necessary processes. For the fastest elimination of symptomatology at sharp diarrhea, with drink it is necessary to take in addition activated carbon or the antibacterial drug Smekta.

Contraindications and harm

The main contraindications to consumption of cranberry drink are:

• ulcer damages of a GIT and duodenum;
• diabetes;
• the increased acidity of gastric juice;
• tendency to izzhogovy manifestations.

In the presence of at least one of the listed pathologies should bring consumption of fruit drink to naught not to do to the organism even more harm.

How to make cranberry drink

Today on the Internet a huge number of recipes of useful cranberry drink walks, however not all of them are capable to transfer true advantage and to keep full-fledged medicinal components on the preparation course.

Important! Acquisition of a cranberry for fruit drink and juice should be carried out in the fall, during the high season. If were not in time or bought insufficiently, then in the winter berries can be found in the markets and in shops – they freely are on sale in the packaged look (on 400–500 g).

The most optimal and modern variants differing in simplicity of preparation and safety of curative structure are given below.

From fresh berries

From fresh fruits it will be necessary for the refreshing cranberry drink for you:

• actually berries (300 g);
• 1.5 pure l;
• 4–6 tablespoons of sugar (it, at will, can be replaced with honey).

Preparation process:

1. To wash berry (carefully) cool flowing water.
2. To squeeze out all juice from fruits in ceramic or glasswares (we use a gauze or a sieve).
3. The berry cake which remained after expression needs to be shifted in a pan with hot water, then to add the prepared sugar to mix.
4. To bring the mix formed water zhmykhovuyu to boiling, having given it, after removal, a quarter of hour to stand.
5. Then it is passed through a gauze in a pan (it is possible in bank) and there cools down to room temperature.
6. Earlier squeezed out berry juice is added to the cooled-down drink.

Video: how to make cranberry drink from fresh berries

From the frozen berries

Necessary ingredients:

• 1500 of water;
• 400 g of a cranberry;
• 2–3 tablespoons of sugar or honey.

Preparation process:

1. To defreeze a cranberry in ceramic capacity.
2. By means of a metal sieve to wring out juice.
3. To boil water, and then it is a little to cool of it (3–5 minutes).
4. To fill up there and to dissolve sugar (completely).
5. To add berry cake to sweet liquid, to mix carefully.
6. To leave the turned-out mix to infuse within half an hour, previously having covered.
7. After this time drink should be filtered in a separate can, having poured there and the remained cranberry juice.

How to make fruit drink from the frozen cranberry: video

Whether you know? The European pioneers of a cranberry gave it the name Cranberry (berry crane) – in a form of the opened stem flowers reminding a neck and the head of this bird.

The correct consumption of cranberry drink will help to improve the state of health and will bring only positive effect. The main thing is to take moderately drink and to use only quality berries for preparation.