Instead of hazardous juices: 5 recipes for tasty and healthy homemade drinks

Fruit juices contain almost as much sugar as carbonated drinks, and therefore likewise contribute to a reduction in life expectancy.

About this with reference to the study presented in the JAMA Network Open, said in an article on the site Inverse. People who consume about 350 ml of fruit juices every day have a higher mortality rate from all causes than the others on 11%, a study in which almost 13,5 thousands of people participated, whose average age was 45 years, showed.

Thus, it is scientifically proven that fruit juices are not a healthy alternative to sweet carbonated drinks. In view of this OBOZREVATEL.Smak offers several recipes for healthier and more beneficial alternatives that can be prepared at home.

One of the most popular healthy and nutritious drinks is considered to be green smoothie.

Ingredients:

• 3 fresh cucumber
• mint to taste
• lime juice to taste
• 1 tbsp honey

Preparation:

1. Peel the cucumbers. Cut into pieces so that it is convenient for you to put them in a bowl for the blender.
2. Put cucumbers in a bowl, squeeze lime juice (about half of fresh ripe lime).
3. Pick up mint leaves and add there, and then honey.
4. Whisk with a blender - regular or submersible. The drink is ready!

In addition, an indisputable positive effect on the body has turkish milk drink ayran.

Ingredients:

• 1 a glass of natural yogurt
• 1 glass of water
• salt to taste

Preparation:

1. It will take a large bowl in which we will prepare an airan, a kitchen whisk, a measuring cup and a teaspoon.
2. Now pour the yogurt into a deep bowl.
3. Next, the dairy product must be actively whip whisk for about a minute.
4. After that, we need cold mineral water without gas or ordinary filtered water - in the same volume as yogurt.
5. Pour water into a bowl of yogurt. Beat the two components with a whisk.
6. Now we need salt, because the drink should have a pronounced salty taste. Add to taste. Stir the mass for about a minute.

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You can also refuse to use sugar as part of cooking. dried fruit compote, because such fruits may well compensate for the lack of sweeteners.

Ingredients:

• 5 liters of water
• Xnumx dried apples
• Xnumx dried quince
• Xnumx dried pear
• 150 g dried prunes
• 1 tbsp sugar

Preparation:

1. Pour 5 liters of water into the pan and wash the dried fruits well. If the dried fruits are purchased, then you should pour them with water and leave for an hour on 1-2, then drain the water.
2. Put a pot of water to boil. When the water boils, we can reduce the fire so that the compote languishes.
3. First of all we will send pears and prunes to the pot with boiling water. Let them boil for about 5 minutes.
4. After some time, we can send quinces and apples into the water.
5. If you use sweet homemade dried fruits, then sugar, most likely, you will not need at all, since the compote will be sweet enough.
6. If your dried fruit is from a store, add a tablespoon of sugar to 1.
7. The compote is boiling, which means it's time to turn off the stove. The main thing for such a compote is to brew for about 12 hours under a closed lid.

If you refuse to sugar is too difficult, you can always cook at home orange lemonade - despite the presence of sugar, in the home cooking version it will at least be known exactly how many sweeteners are there, and whether there are no other harmful additives.

Ingredients:

• 3 orange
• 1 lemon
• 1 bunch of mint
• 1 liters of water
• 100 g sugar

Preparation:

1. Mix a glass of water with sugar. It must be thoroughly mixed to dissolve sugar in water.
2. Before you cut the oranges, you must pour boiling water on them. But for cutting we need only one orange, the rest we use a little later.
3. Sliced ​​orange folded in a carafe, cut lemons. They also need to be folded into a decanter. Mint cut and send to lemons and oranges.
4. All that we have put into the decanter, now it is necessary to knead with a crush to citrus and mint juice.
5. Squeeze the juice from the remaining two oranges, then mix the orange juice with the ingredients that are in the decanter.
6. Add water with sugar to the carafe, and pour all the remaining water there.

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For those who do not like citrus fruits, you can also cook topical on the eve of summer strawberry lemonade.

Ingredients:

• 1 lemon
• 200 of strawberry puree
• 1 liter of water (if you use sugar, you can sweet soda)
• ice to taste

Preparation:

1. Clean, pre-washed lemon, cut into rings and send to the decanter, where our lemonade will be.
2. Add ice and strawberry puree to the carafe, mix everything. You can also add whole berries and fruits, for example, the same strawberries. Cut it into 4 beauty pieces. Prepare clean sprigs of mint or basil, they will perfectly refresh the drink.
3. We mix the entire composition of the carafe with 1 liter of plain or carbonated water (preferably without color - such a drink will not spoil the color of our lemonade, and as a rule, it has a neutral taste, which is what we need).
4. As soon as our lemonade is ready, it is better to leave it in the fridge for a while. So the lemonade will be filled with berries and fruits, which will give it even more richness both in taste and color.

What kind of drinks do you like? Share your proven recipe!

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