Sea buckthorn is an amazing berry, which due to its healing properties and appearance has received the beautiful name "Golden Queen". Amber-yellow fruits have a rather tart and unusual taste. Therefore, in their pure form they are not consumed. At home, healthy raw materials are usually frozen, dried and processed into various drinks (fruit drinks, decoctions, fruit drinks, etc.), jams, preserves. This article provides several available recipes for making sea buckthorn juice, including in combination with other berries and fruits (for example, apples, pears, grapes, apricots). The main properties of the drink, recommendations for use, contraindications - all this is summarized below.
Useful properties of sea buckthorn juice
The high content of vitamin C and carotene is the main feature of the drink. Due to this, with regular use, it has a rather tangible and quick anti-inflammatory effect (especially in the winter with colds infections). Sea buckthorn juice contains vitamins, organic compounds, protein, tannins. Due to the high concentration of fatty acids, the calorie content of freshly squeezed raw materials (despite the average sugar content) reaches 82 Kcal per 100 g. It is advisable to consume sea buckthorn every day. But because of the astringent aftertaste, juice or a decoction is still more pleasant. The most important factor is systematic. The approximate duration of treatment is 3 weeks (the usual dose of juice is ½ cup in the morning or in the evening after eating), then you should take a break for 7 days, and then conduct a second course of therapy.
What diseases are recommended to use juice for?
You can include this useful natural product (berries, drinks, jam, etc.) in your diet both for the purpose of treatment and for prevention. The form of application of the healing drink can be usual (internal intake in certain doses) and specific (external lotions, douching, rinsing). We list the main diseases in which sea buckthorn juice is recommended:
- female "problems" (douching with cystitis, infections, postpartum injuries, erosion);
- skin diseases (herpes, allergies, eczema, burn injuries);
- hemorrhoids;
- cough (especially successful treatment with a combination of sea buckthorn juice with honey);
- toxic hepatitis, liver problems (cleansing with a smoothie with pumpkin juice) ;
- benign tumors (in the initial stage);
- gastric diseases (gastritis, pre-ulcerated condition).
But despite all the usefulness and uniqueness of the juice from the "Golden Queen", some patients are not recommended to use it.
Who is contraindicated for sea buckthorn juice?
First of all, allergy sufferers need to be very careful, especially with carotene intolerance. A high concentration of this substance, as well as essential oils, can provoke skin rashes, itching, and redness of the mucous membranes. To avoid unforeseen effects, start the application with small doses, gradually bringing them to the required proportions. Due to the choleretic properties, the drink cannot be taken with hyperacid gastritis, high acidity and a stomach ulcer (and duodenal ulcer), systematic diarrhea. For the same reason, juice is contraindicated in the stage of exacerbation of cholecystitis and pancreatitis. The decision to include berry products in the diet should be abandoned to people who have a hereditary predisposition to cancerous tumors. If there are no contraindications, you can make sea buckthorn juice at home. Then this healing elixir will always be at hand.
Collection and preparation of berries
Before making sea buckthorn juice for the winter, you need to know when and how to properly prepare the raw materials. Some recommendations are given below. The timing of collection depends on the variety of berries:
- Early sea buckthorn. The fruits ripen in early August, although the highest concentration of nutrients appears in them only by the end of the month.
- Late sea buckthorn. Depending on the climatic zone and weather conditions, the favorable time for picking ripe berries varies from late September to mid-October.
Ripe fruits of bright color of dense consistency. They easily come off the twigs. If the raw material is intended for the production of oil, then the berries must be “overexposed”, without tearing off the branches, for about two weeks. Part of the berries can be removed along with the stalks, from which healthy tea is then brewed from high blood pressure. To avoid injections, choose the direction of removal of bunches from the base to the end. After the first frosts, the “shaking off” method is suitable when a large canvas is spread out under a tree and a stick is tapped on the trunk. Crystallized berries are easily sprinkled. Sort the harvested raw materials, removing the spoiled fruits, remove from the twigs and fill with warm water. After that, rinse several times in the cold and drop in a colander.
Beverage Options
Sea buckthorn juice for the winter can be prepared in several ways. We list some of them:
- distillation of raw materials through a juicer or a juice cooker;
- preliminary rubbing through a sieve, and then mixing with syrup;
- boiling berries to soften and further filtering the juice;
- mixing with other fruit drinks.
Consider the method of multi-stage processing of sea buckthorn fruits.
The first juice recipe
- Pour 1 kg of berries with 0.5 l of water and let stand for 20 minutes without boiling.
- Softened fruits, remove the slotted spoon from the solution and wipe, then put it back.
- Pour squeezed boiling water (per 1 kg of raw materials 1.5 cups of liquid) and leave for 2 hours.
- Wipe the infusion and add about 500 g of sugar per 1 liter. Boil, cool and filter through a sieve.
- Mix the broth with the juice of the first extraction in equal proportions.
- Warm up to a temperature of 85-90 ° C and pour into cans, sterilize.
It is quite difficult and long to prepare such sea buckthorn juice. The recipe below is a bit easier to implement.
Pulp juice
Sort the berries (1 kg), rinse and discard in a colander. Then lay them on the table with a thin layer and let dry completely. Wipe the mass through a sieve to obtain sea buckthorn mashed potatoes (do not discard the squeezes, you can cook a delicious compote in combination with other berries). Boil 0.5 kg of sugar in 0.5 l of water. Mix the resulting syrup with previously prepared mashed potatoes. Put the mass on medium heat. Remove the film that forms on the surface. It is a healthy and valuable sea buckthorn oil that helps treat stomach and skin diseases. After boiling, pour the juice into clean jars and sterilize them for 15-20 minutes. Store preservation in a cool place. Before use, the drink should be shaken, and if necessary, diluted with boiled water. And how to make sea buckthorn juice without sugar? This is described below.
Recipe "Sugar-Free Juice"
Fans of astringent taste will surely like the way to preserve natural astringent “shades”. To make the drink completely natural, you can make unsweetened sea buckthorn juice. The recipe involves obtaining a concentrated semi-finished drink, from which you can then successfully make other dishes - jelly, jelly, punch, etc. Clean and washed berries (2 kg) are placed in an enamel bowl and mash with a wooden rolling pin. Then fill the mass with 0.5 l of hot boiled water and put on fire. Cook for about five minutes. Drain the liquid, and squeeze the squeezes. Combine both components, bring to a boil and pour into small containers. Sterilize in the usual way.
Sea buckthorn drink
The tart taste of berries is not always liked by children. You can find a way out of the situation by mixing small portions of fruit or juice with yoghurts, cottage cheese or fermented baked milk or with other fruit drinks. Consider how to make sea buckthorn juice in combination with an apple.
- Use a juicer to process 2 kg of sweet, juicy apples and 0.5 kg of sea buckthorn berries.
- Mix the resulting juice with the same volume of boiled water and 4 tbsp. granulated sugar.
- The drink can be consumed immediately. For storage in the winter, sterilize for 30 minutes, spilling into jars.
The healing berries of sea buckthorn are a kind of immunomodulator, so the uncontrolled use of any drinks from it can not always be beneficial. It is best to consult a doctor to determine the exact doses and duration of treatment for a particular disease.
At home, healthy raw materials are usually frozen, dried and processed into various drinks (fruit drinks, decoctions, fruit drinks, etc.), jams, preserves. This article provides several recipes on how to make sea buckthorn juice, including in combination with other berries and fruits. The main properties of the drink, recommendations for use, contraindications - all this is summarized below.