Fresh: benefits and medicinal properties

It is pleasant to drink a glass of fresh juice in the summer heat, diluted with mineral water. But are such drinks useful, can they quench thirst and replenish the piggy bank of our health?

What is fresh?

Freshies are called fresh juices of vegetables, fruits, berries or garden greens, medicinal plants and herbs, used for quenching thirst or for therapeutic and preventive purposes.

Juice is water from fruits in combination with organic and inorganic compounds, vitamins and pectins (if flesh is added). In principle, modern juicers can get juices from any fruit, even bananas, which are not particularly juicy.

The benefits of natural juices are unquestionable - it is a concentrate of vitamins and minerals, and if juice with pulp is also a storehouse of pectins and fiber that regulate digestion.

But the juices must be consumed moderately and correctly. Freshly squeezed juices do not like air, vitamins in them are oxidized and quickly destroyed, so do not store juice for more than half an hour, its nutritional value is reduced.

Features of juice consumption

However, juices are a special product, and you can not drink them as much as you like. The fact is that juice is a concentrate of organic acids from fruits, especially fruits and berries, and these acids actively and aggressively affect the digestive system, exerting irritating, choleretic and sokogonic effects.

That is why juices are not allowed to give children up to a year. Also, juices should be avoided for people with gastritis (inflammation of the stomach) and enteritis (inflammation of the intestines), and all the rest of them should be diluted with water half.

In addition, the juices of many fruits contain a lot of sugar and affect the appetite, so their reception should be consistent with nutrition. If you want to lose weight, consume them half an hour before meals, they will muffle your appetite.

It is not recommended to take juices with food: sugar of juices starts to be split by a microflora of a gut and to wander, causing discomfort. Ideally, juices should be drunk in an hour and a half after you have eaten, or between meals, drinking juice at breakfast or lunch is wrong in terms of dietology.

Therapeutic effects of juices

Due to the fruit acids and minerals, the content of vitamins and some special substances, juices can be used as an auxiliary therapy for certain diseases. They give cheerfulness and increase vitality, tasty and quench your thirst. Treated deliciously liked by everyone, especially children.