Beetroot is known to be a very healthy root crop. Fresh juice from this vegetable helps to normalize blood pressure, improves blood composition. People who monitor their health are wondering how to make beetroot juice on their own. Beetroot is a dense and very solid vegetable. To prepare juice from it, it will be very useful to have an electric juicer, a food processor or a blender on the farm.
Product Preparation
First of all, beets need to be thoroughly washed in running cold water, it is convenient to use a soft brush or a dense sponge. Then with a sharp knife you need to remove the remnants of tops and roots. You can cook healthy beetroot juice with tops. In this case, it is separated from the vegetable, rotted and too dirty leaves are removed, cut into small pieces and used together with the root crop for making juice.
The beet peel is rich in useful substances. If root vegetables are young and their skin is thin, then it would be more correct not to peel it. For old or very dirty beets, it is better to thinly peel the peel with a knife.
How to make beetroot juice in a juicer
Prepared vegetables are cut into pieces, making sure that they are not too large. Otherwise, there is a high risk of engine combustion of the appliance. Many juicers are able to easily cope with the quarters of root crops, but there are also devices with weak power. For them it will be better to chop the beets smaller.
Then you need to assemble, configure and cook the appliance itself. It is necessary to act strictly adhering to the operating instructions for each individual juicer.
When squeezing the juice, it is important to remember that the beets in themselves are very hard, you can not put too much pressure on the pusher of the juicer so as not to spoil the device. It is more correct to act slowly, carefully observing the process, timely cleaning the gratings of the device from the cake stuck in them.
We figured out the question of how to make beetroot juice using household appliances. It takes almost no effort. However, it happens that there is neither a juicer nor a blender on the farm, and there is a need to make beetroot juice. What to do in this case? Refuse the idea? It is not necessary to do this, because there are other ways to make a drink from your favorite vegetable.
How to make beetroot juice without a juicer
For work you will need:
- Clean, sterile gauze.
- Stainless steel grater with small holes.
- Wide-necked dishes.
The prepared beets should be grated, put on a piece of gauze, folded in 2-3 layers, tightly wrap the ends of the gauze and squeeze the juice into a bowl. It is important not to rush, squeeze the juice gradually, otherwise the gauze can break through, and you will have to start all over again.
The burgundy root crop contains many useful substances that can have a positive effect on the health of not only adults, but also babies. Young dads and mothers often ask questions about how to make beetroot juice for babies and at what age a baby can start using this healthy product. There are contraindications to the use of beet juice, so it would be better to consult a pediatrician before supplementing the child’s menu with such juice.
The benefits of beetroot juice
The drink has a number of useful properties:
- The presence in the beetroot of vitamins such as A, P, C, vitamins of group B and others, important for physical health and growth of the baby.
- The increased content of mineral elements: potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iodine, iron, copper, magnesium.
- Beetroot juice improves overall digestion and gently neutralizes constipation.
- Beetroot helps to strengthen blood vessels and normalize blood pressure.
- Beetroot juice has an anti-inflammatory effect, helps in healing wounds.
All this opens up a wide range of possibilities for using a beetroot drink for the treatment and prevention of various ailments.
Harmful qualities of beetroot juice
However, do not forget that there are contraindications and restrictions on the use of the drink:
- Beets are distinguished by the property of absorbing nitrates into a juice as a sponge. This can adversely affect the functioning of the kidneys. Buy your favorite root crops only from trusted manufacturers.
- Reducing blood pressure will benefit many adults, but it can adversely affect the health of infants, because they usually do not suffer from high blood pressure.
- If the baby has a tendency to diarrhea, then it will be more advisable to refuse the use of beet juice, because he is able to aggravate the problem even more.
At what age can a baby beetroot juice be given to try?
The inclusion of juice from beets in the diet should be made only after the introduction of low-allergenic vegetables: broccoli, zucchini, pumpkin, carrots and potatoes into the baby's food. As a rule, this is done when reaching the age of 8-11 months from birth. Beets can be an allergen, it should be added to the child’s menu gradually, taking great care. If the baby has a tendency to allergic rashes, then the first intake of beet juice should be postponed until the baby reaches the age of one year. When there are no contraindications, and the child is often tormented by constipation, it is possible to carefully try to enter beet juice in the menu from six months.
How much to start the introduction of beet juice into the diet?
It is more advisable to start the introduction of beets with half a teaspoon of mashed potatoes from well-boiled root vegetables. It is important to carefully monitor the baby's reactions to an unfamiliar product. It is necessary to identify changes in the quality of the baby’s stool, in the general state of the baby’s health, and to monitor the possible appearance of allergic rashes. If the baby's body will negatively perceive the new root crop, then with the introduction of it in the menu it is worthwhile to wait. If the child normally passed the test of beetroot puree, you can proceed to get acquainted with raw beetroot juice, including it in the composition of dishes with a few drops and eventually bring its amount to 50 g per day. You should not stuff the child with beetroot juice every day, it will be enough to use this product 3 times a week.
A method of preparing beet juice for a baby
How to make beet juice at home for a nursing baby? When preparing juice for the baby, it is important to follow some rules so as not to harm the baby's health. To begin with, you should choose high-quality root crops. They must be outwardly healthy, firm, heavy. It is advisable to choose medium-sized beets. Cylindrical beet varieties are the sweetest. In the context, vegetables should have a burgundy color, the presence of light veins is unacceptable. Beets should be washed and cleaned especially carefully, observing the well-known rules of sanitation when preparing dishes for infants. Juice is prepared by the methods described above (with or without a juicer). Fresh beet juice tastes bad. A child may refuse to use it in its pure form. Here, the cultivation of beet juice with boiled cold water or juices and decoctions of other vegetables and fruits will help.
The use of beet juice in the home
Beet juice can be used not only for nutrition, but also for other purposes in the household, for example:
- beetroot juice can be tinted with curls;
- cure a runny nose;
- paint easter eggs;
- give cream and icing for the cake a pink color.
As you can see, red beet juice is not only a valuable food product, but can also be used for medicinal purposes, in cosmetology, cooking and in everyday life.
Hair coloring with beetroot juice
Beetroot juice will give the hair a red Martian hue, it is quickly washed out, so you can safely conduct experiments with coloring, without fear for the result. Let's figure out how to make colored strands of beetroot juice. You can use this recipe: take a quarter cup of fresh rosehip juice, carrots and beets. All juices must be thoroughly mixed and diluted with 2.5 cups of cold boiled water. The resulting composition must be applied to individual locks of hair or to all hair completely, leave it for 1 hour, during which it is necessary to stay in direct sunlight. Then the hair must be washed with water with the addition of shampoo. The procedure must be repeated daily for 2-3 weeks. Such a natural way of coloring will not only give the curls a reddish color, but also effectively mask gray hair.
Another beetroot recipe for coloring hair in red-red color: you need to prepare half a glass of juice from carrots and beets, mix them. You should get a deep purple color. In the resulting liquid, you just need to dip individual strands or ends of the hair and immediately dry them with a napkin so that the liquid does not flow from them. Leave the hair in this condition for an hour, and then you need to wash your hair with shampoo.
Beetroot juice to treat a cold
How to make beetroot juice at home is described in the text above. The technology for preparing beet juice for the treatment of the common cold will be the same. For the treatment of the common cold, juice can be used not only from raw root crops, but also from boiled ones. They make juice from boiled beets in the same way as from raw beets, only boiled ones are used instead of fresh vegetables.
It is advisable to stock up on beet juice for future use. For preservation, the finished juice is pasteurized (rapid heating to 90 ° C for several minutes), poured hot into small sterilized jars and rolled up.
Why does beet juice help in treating a cold?
Beetroot has the ability to thin out secretions from the sinuses, has an anti-inflammatory effect, interferes with the appearance of blood clots, reduces swelling, and helps to dilate blood vessels. In addition, the juice from this vegetable is a natural product. And what could be better for our health?
Folk recipes
Raw beet juice has been used in folk medicine since ancient times. With its help, a whole range of diseases is treated, including a runny nose. For the preparation of a medicinal substance, the following recipes can be used:
- Dilute the prepared beet juice with cold boiled water one to one, drip 2-3 drops into the thoroughly washed sinuses several times a day.
- In honey from fresh beets add honey in a ratio of 3: 1, apply in the same way as juice diluted with water.
- Dilute the juice of burgundy root vegetables with carrot juice in a ratio of 3: 1, add two parts of sunflower oil and a few drops of garlic juice to the mixture. Mix the mixture thoroughly and apply similarly to the first two recipes.
- In a mixture of carrot and beetroot juice, add honey in a ratio of 3: 1, instill 3 drops in each sinus of the nose 4 times 4 times a day.
You can cure a runny nose with fresh juice from beets, even in babies. It is important to remember that the mucous membrane of the sinuses in infants is more sensitive and vulnerable. Concentrated beet juice can cause burning and pain. To prevent these negative effects, beetroot juice should be diluted with water (you need to take three parts of water for one part of the juice). Dripping such juice for babies 1-2 drops in the nostril 3 times a day for 5 days.
Beetroot Juice Coloring
To give Easter eggs different tones of red color will help a natural natural dye - beetroot juice. The intensity of the color shade depends on the duration of the color and on the saturation of the beet juice itself. How to make beetroot juice, we examined in detail at the beginning of the article. Now consider the methods of coloring eggs:
- To obtain a pale pink color, boiled eggs are placed in a deep bowl and pour them with fresh beet juice, kept for 20 minutes. It is important to remember that the longer the eggs withstand in a bowl with juice, the more intense the color.
- Three medium-sized beets are thoroughly cleaned, passed through a grater with large holes, and poured with water. The liquid should only slightly cover the beets. Then pour a few tablespoons of vinegar, bring to a boil and keep on fire for 10 minutes. Then the composition is filtered and boiled eggs are poured with it. The color saturation again depends on the exposure time.
- Raw beets are peeled, tinder on a grater with small holes, grated eggs are grated. It’s better to do such work when wearing gloves.
- The root crop is peeled, cut into small pieces and cooked in one pan with eggs. This method is the easiest, but the color of the eggs will be the lightest.
- To obtain a green color, the beetroot broth prepared according to the second recipe is mixed with turmeric infusion.
Natural dye for confectionery
To prepare a natural red food coloring, prepared root vegetables are rubbed on a coarse grater, spread in enameled dishes or stainless steel dishes, and filled with water so that it only slightly covers the beets. The contents of the dishes are boiled for 2-3 minutes from the start of the boil, then a teaspoon of vinegar is added. The resulting mixture is cooled, reclined in a colander and squeezed. Natural dye is ready! One or two drops of such a dye will give the cream or icing for the cake a delicate pinkish color.
It is possible for the same purpose to use fresh beet juice. And how to make beetroot juice at home, look at the beginning of the article.