Carbohydrate cocktails are the fine additional energy source for the organism tired with physical or mental work. It is possible to make easily and quickly carbohydrate cocktail in house conditions.
How to make carbohydrate cocktail
The recipe is simple. Cocktail is cooked according to the scheme: liquid part, carbohydrate part, flavoring additives. The density of cocktail can be changed depending on preferences, but the optimum taste turns out at the ratio 1.5:1. Liquid can be any: water, juice, skim milk or kefir. As carbohydrate additive are ideal: bananas, the crushed dried fruits, sweet fruit, berries, oat flakes. Can be flavoring additive: vanilla, cinnamon, cocoa or grated chocolate (about 2 teaspoons on the glass), honey or natural fruit syrup (1 tablespoon on the glass), the crushed nutlets. Ingredients are required to be mixed in the blender, to pour on glasses and at once to use.
The simplest recipes of carbohydrate cocktails
Kefiric and cinnamon fat-free kefir (1.5 glasses); - banana of the average sizes (1 piece); - oat flakes (2 tsps); - cinnamon at will. Dairy and berry skim milk (1.5 glasses); - wild berries (1 glass); - natural honey (1-2 tablespoons). "Fitness" - drinking water (0.5 glasses); - natural orange juice (1 glass); - the dried fruits crushed (2 tablespoons); - small banana (1 piece); - the crushed nutlets (1-2 tsps); - spoon of honey or fruit syrup.
Banana and chocolate. This cocktail can be drunk both cold, and warm: - the skim milk (which is warmed up up to the necessary temperature) (1.5 glasses); - large banana (1 piece); - cocoa powder (without addition of sugar) (1 tsp); - grated chocolate (2 tsps). It is possible to include imagination, combining ingredients, changing proportions. Anyway tasty and useful drink will turn out.
Advantage of carbohydrate cocktails
The carbohydrate cocktails made from natural ingredients contain the set of useful components: digestible carbohydrates, vitamins, mineral substances, antioxidants. For example, bananas and cocoa are rich with magnesium, so, such cocktail will bring notable benefit to nervous system and will positively affect work of the brain. Dried fruits and nuts contain a lot of potassium which is necessary for your heart. Kefir and milk are the calcium source, and fresh berries, especially bilberry – the well of antioxidants and vitamins. Carbohydrate cocktails are useful to people of all age including to children. Having decided to make carbohydrate cocktail of the house, it is worth remembering that drink will bring the maximum benefit if to use it right after preparation. It is undesirable to store ready cocktail.