The frozen cranberry with your fridge – extremely valuable product capable to increase immunity to help at infections and problems of a GIT and just to diversify a diet. Incomparable sweet-sour drink is cooked from this wonderful berry. It is important to make fruit drink from a cranberry correctly to keep all useful substances which are contained in raw materials.
Cranberry: useful properties and contraindications
The cranberry is a sugar, completely acquired an organism; valuable organic acids; pectins; large amount of vitamin C. Besides, in marsh berry there are a lot of minerals, such as manganese, potassium, copper, molybdenum and also cobalt, necessary for digestion work.
Traditionally the cranberry in traditional medicine was applied in therapy of inflammations, colds that modern scientists connect with bactericidal effect of cranberry drink which recipe in years almost didn't change. It is proved that thanks to a large amount of guipure acid curative drink strengthens action of antibiotics, and vitamin P helps to restore a dream, to kill headaches and fatigue. Minerals in a cranberry are stocked medical drink the excellent assistant at diseases of a liver and metabolic disorders.
And still home-made fruit drink from a cranberry – not everyday drink which can be used excessively and without consultation with the nutritionist and the therapist. Excessive hobby for sour fruit drink without the subsequent rinsing of an oral cavity is capable to damage enamels of teeth.
When the cranberry is contraindicated:
- at stomach ulcer;
- at an erosion of gastric fabrics;
- allergies;
- to gout;
- uratny stones in kidneys.
Nothing can be abused, drink needs to be perceived as addition to a diet, vitamin supplement.
We cook fruit drink from a frozen cranberry
It is possible to make fruit drink from a cranberry at any time during the whole winter as this surprising berry because of the content of benzoic acid – natural preservative - is capable to remain up to nine months freshen. The crop is reaped in northern marshy forests, in other area the cranberry is usually bought frozen. It is necessary to defreeze raw materials at the room temperature not to destroy vitamin C.
Place the defrozen berries (calculation on 150 g of raw materials) in not oxidized capacity (stainless steel, enamel, glass, ceramics) and pound a wooden pestle, a rolling pin. Certainly, it is much simpler to cook cranberry drink by means of the blender, but metal surfaces destroy vitamins, as well as long thermal influence.
Wring out a berry juice by means of a gauze, a nonmetallic sieve, and cake fill in 600 ml of water, bring to the boil and at once filter. In broth pour in juice, a half-glass of granulated sugar, well vent everything and cool. And if to add to fruit drink from a cranberry instead of sugar honey to taste and also 0.3 teaspoons of ginger, at you to turn out magnificent anti-catarrhal drink.