Beverages

Everyone knows how beneficial grapes are - they include a general strengthening of the immune system, protection against cancer, removal of toxins from the body, prevention of premature aging and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, I really want to save these “vitamin beads” for the winter. For this, in my opinion, there is nothing better and tastier than rolling up grape compote according to this simple recipe without sterilization. I’ll tell you step by step how I do this every fall.

My preparation today is a delicious homemade blackcurrant compote. According to this recipe, I prepare a currant drink for the winter without sterilization. Just a little effort and a wonderful preparation will delight you in the cold with its summer aroma and taste.

Fragrant, moderately sweet and slightly sour blackcurrant liqueur, prepared at home, will not leave even the most fastidious gourmets indifferent.

Compote of apples, oranges and lemons is not just very tasty. Fanta lovers, having tried this compote, unanimously say that it tastes similar to the popular orange drink.

Thorn is a thorny shrub that bears fruit abundantly with small-sized fruits with large seeds. Blackthorn berries are not very tasty on their own, but they behave well in various homemade preparations, and especially in compotes.

Some people grow honeysuckle in their garden as an ornamental shrub, but more and more people are learning about the benefits of these berries, and, accordingly, about ways to consume them.Honeysuckle berries are widely used in cooking and folk medicine, and the only question is how to preserve the benefits of these fruits for the winter.

Blackcurrant juice is an amazing opportunity to preserve the aroma of this wonderful berry until winter. Many people make jam, jelly, or compotes from currants. Yes, they are very tasty and healthy, but they have no smell. One could be upset, but why, if it is possible to preserve the taste, benefits, and aroma for the winter.

Scandinavian legend says that the first woman was created from a rowan tree. These healthy berries are shrouded in many legends, which will take more than one day to read. It is enough for us to know that rowan is useful for colds, respiratory diseases, as a prevention of cancer and much more.

Natural grape juice contains such an amount of useful substances and elements that can be compared with real medicines. Therefore, you can’t drink a lot of juice, but you can make grape juice from the juice.

Such familiar zucchini can bring surprises. There is probably no person in the world who has not tried squash caviar at least once.Many housewives cook “zucchini like pineapples,” and this suggests that there is a lot we don’t know about zucchini. In particular, about the fact that you can make juice from zucchini for the winter.

Harvests of red currants can be significant, so you should pay close attention to this berry when preparing vitamin drinks. Today we hasten to offer you a selection of recipes for red currant fruit drinks. Both fresh and frozen fruits are used.

Apple juice can be prepared from any variety of apples, but for winter preparations, it is better to take late-ripening varieties. Although they are denser and there will be more pulp, they also contain more vitamins. The only task is to preserve all these vitamins and not lose them during the cooking process.

Carrot juice is rightfully considered a vitamin bomb and one of the healthiest vegetable juices. In winter, when the body's vitamin reserves are depleted, hair becomes dull, and nails become brittle, carrot juice will save the situation. Freshly squeezed carrot juice is considered the healthiest, but alas, sometimes you have to sacrifice a small part of the vitamins in order to maintain your body all year round and preserve carrot juice for the winter.

Strawberry juice is sometimes made in the summer, but it is considered unnecessary to prepare it for the winter, processing excess berries into jams and preserves. I must say that this is in vain. After all, juice has the same amount of vitamins and beneficial microelements as fresh strawberries, which means it is healthier than jam, which is filled with a lot of sugar and boiled for many hours.

For dietary nutrition, a pear is more suitable than an apple. After all, if apples stimulate the appetite, then after eating a pear this does not happen. In addition, a pear tastes sweeter than an apple, and at the same time, it contains much less sugar. All this leads to the fact that the pear and its juice are perfect for baby food, for those who are on a diet or have diabetes.

Peach juice rarely causes allergies. It is suitable for first feeding for children up to one year old, and babies adore it. It is tasty, refreshing, and at the same time has a lot of useful microelements. Peaches have a short season and the shelf life of the fruit is very short. In order not to lose all these useful substances, you can preserve the juice, and the best preparation is peach juice for the winter.

Although cherries are rich in antioxidants and are useful for many diseases, they are almost never harvested for the winter, and this is very in vain. Cherry juice has a mild taste, it refreshes and restores the necessary supply of vitamins in the body, depleted in winter.

Blueberries are a type of plant about which folk healers and medical luminaries have agreed on the almost magical properties of the berries. If disputes arise, it is only on the question of in what form blueberries are healthier

Lingonberry has many beneficial properties, but alas, its growing area is quite small. Most often, we can see these healthy berries not in the forest, not in the market, but in the supermarket, in the frozen food department. However, there is no need to be sad, because freezing does not harm the berries in any way and lingonberry juice, even if it was frozen, turns out no worse than fresh one.

Cranberry juice is unusually useful at any time of the year. Not only does it have an anti-inflammatory effect, but it also promotes gene expression. This means that the substances contained in cranberries are beneficial for women and children. They improve the functioning of the body at the cellular level, making it stronger, healthier and better. Well, the pleasant sweet and sour taste of cranberries does not need advertising at all.

We can talk endlessly about the benefits of lemon. It is widely used in cooking, cosmetology and in home life. The only question is ease of use.Every time you have to buy a lemon, use a couple of drops of juice, and the unclaimed part of the lemon sits in the refrigerator for weeks until it becomes moldy. To avoid such losses, it is wiser to make lemon juice and use it as needed.

It would seem that now there is no special need for winter preparations. After all, you can buy fresh vegetables and fruits in supermarkets. But not everything is so rosy. Most seasonal vegetables sold out of season are loaded with nitrates and herbicides, which negates all their benefits. The same applies to fresh cucumbers. Juice made from such cucumbers will bring little benefit, and this is at best. To always have fresh cucumber juice and not be afraid of nitrates, prepare it yourself for the winter.

Tomato juice is prepared slightly differently than regular tomato juice. But, like tomato juice, it can be used as a borscht dressing or for preparing main courses. What is the difference between juice and fruit drink? Firstly - taste. Tomato juice is more sour, and this taste has its fans who prefer to make fruit juice rather than juice.

Pepper juice is prepared mainly for medicinal purposes for the winter. It is not recommended to drink a lot of it, but we will consider not medicinal recipes, but a way to prepare and preserve pepper juice for the winter. There are many varieties of peppers. Basically, it is divided into sweet and hot peppers.Juice is also made from hot, hot peppers, and this is the basis for all kinds of sauces, adjika and seasonings.

Chokeberry pleases with its magnificent harvest, regardless of what weather conditions were in the summer. This shrub is very unpretentious. The berries remain on the branches until late autumn, and if you did not have time to pick them, and the birds did not covet them, then the chokeberry, along with the fruits, goes under the snow.