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Tangerine juice is a drink shrouded in mystery. You won’t find it on the shelves in supermarkets, but not everyone knows how to cook it on their own at home. But such an omission on the part of adherents of a healthy lifestyle is very sad, because the drink has a huge supply of nutrients necessary for the normal functioning of the body.
Just before you start including it in your daily diet, you need to remember that only freshly squeezed juice is useful. For the same reason, manufacturers abandoned the idea of canning it, in order to later implement it on an industrial scale. The futility of the drink explains why there is no ready-to-drink product on the market. You can buy it only in specialized bars where fresh juices are prepared right on the spot, or you will have to tinker in the kitchen yourself.
For the same reason, you should not look for how to twist such a citrus blank from the summer. She will live to see the New Year’s table, but will not carry any practical value. It is better to prepare compotes or citrus jam for the winter.
Healthy fresh juice
The fruit itself, unlike the liquid extracted from it, is able to maintain energy value for a long time. This explains why there are no people in the food industry who want to establish a conveyor juice production process.
The main trump cards of the resulting juice are three vitamins: C, K, D. Their dosage is considered shock, as it manages to fill the almost daily need of these elements.
During the research, it became clear that the tangerine drink in its pure form contains more ascorbic acid than other citrus counterparts. Due to this, even one glass per day will be enough as a powerful prevention of colds during the winter season.
If a family member has already become a victim of SARS or influenza, then he should also be offered this remedy to quench his thirst. It does an excellent job with the tasks, because not always drunk helps to get rid of thirst at elevated temperatures.
The benefits of fruits are not limited to the immediate prevention of colds. In folk medicine, there are many recipes that suggest how to make effective remedies for the treatment of the respiratory system based on juice. This applies to the treatment of bronchial asthma.
The healing power is explained by the fact that the composition of the juice provides for the presence of synephrine. A special antioxidant does an excellent job of nullifying even the most extensive edema. By clearing the upper respiratory tract of mucus accumulated over the period of illness, the drink helps the body to return to normal sooner.
Some are so imbued with this ability of citrus that they make vodka tinctures from it. But doctors advise not to do this, using hand-made moonshine as an alcohol base. Due to the abundance of fusel oils, all benefits will be reduced to zero.
In addition to helping the bronchopulmonary system, natural fluid is the best friend of the gastrointestinal tract. The reason for this is the stimulation of the production of gastric juice. Initially, there was no official confirmation of the proposal, but recently researchers released the results of an experiment related to orange juice and obesity. Due to the effect on the stomach, it starts the processes of rapid digestion of incoming food, even if it turned out to be quite heavy.
Another advantage that homemade juice has is the huge number of antimicrobial compounds. Their abundance becomes an excellent help in a multi-day course of therapy for diseases of the digestive tract, where the intestines have suffered. It is prescribed even for dysentery.
And in ancient times, the sages used a special recipe with the inclusion of a healing acidic liquid, which helps to get rid of worms. Biologically active components of the composition, due to anthelmintic activity, fight unwanted “guests” inside children’s organisms.
Deliciousness has a positive effect on the activity of the nervous system. Natural antidepressant helps with:
- emotional overload;
- depression;
- nervous shocks.
It is not for nothing that with the aroma of tangerines, many automatically improve their mood. Not only do useful essential oils begin to wield here, but memory is also activated. Due to the fact that consumers are used to associating this smell with winter holidays full of good memories, the brain switches into good mood mode when drinking the drink.
In addition to the fact that the calorie content of the final product will not present a shocking picture for losing weight, it can serve as an excellent snack if you mix several citrus juices at once. But besides internal use, it is sometimes used as an external medicine.
Only prepared juice is used to disinfect the skin, which helps to restore the area damaged due to inflammatory processes. It works best with:
- causative agents of ringworm;
- causative agents of microsporia;
- pathogenic bacteria.
It has long been used by those who know how to maintain the health of the nail plates. Many instructions from alternative medicine provide for wetting the nails affected by onychomycosis with fresh acidic liquid.
Use with caution
Despite the many positive aspects, the harm from freshly squeezed juice is still present. It usually revolves around a possible allergic reaction. Especially careful with him you need to be small children and pregnant women. But even if we put aside individual intolerance, there are still many other dangerous contraindications.
Most of them are related to ailments of the digestive tract like:
- stomach ulcers;
- duodenal ulcers;
- gastritis;
- colitis;
- enteritis;
- hepatitis A;
- cholecystitis.
With all the above diagnoses, you should not even add it to a salad, using it as a natural seasoning.
Also, you should carefully consider such an additive for those who have any diseases associated with the activity of the kidneys. Jade is a prime example of this. Due to the fact that the composition offers a number of specific biologically active components in abundance, they make the kidneys work in an enhanced mode.
But even if the consumer is completely healthy, you should not get too carried away with a natural liquid antioxidant. The optimal dosage provides for no more than one and a half liters per week. And for every day should account for approximately 200 milliliters.
Some who want to taste goodies are worried about the information that the juice weakens. But here it will not be possible to give a definite answer, since the effect on the digestive tract depends on the individual characteristics of a particular person.
A simple recipe
Many lovers of this refreshing drink prefer to prepare it from whole fruits. The reason for this is the presence of additional nutrients in the shell. There are those who generally extract liquid separately from peeled fruits, and then add a mixture of tangerine peels to the container.
When a certain taste gets boring, healthy lifestyle adherents begin to mix several combinations, looking for a new optimal option for themselves.
The carrot-tangerine version is in particular demand, but there are many other interesting tandems with:
- apples;
- lemon;
- bananas
Only now it is strongly not recommended to add sugar to the finished dish. In extreme cases, real honey in a small amount will do.
To make the base, just follow a few simple steps:
- select ripe specimens;
- rinse them thoroughly under running water;
- remove the skin;
- remove white veins;
- send to the juicer.
Drink the resulting delicacy should be immediately. Moreover, it is better to use a straw for this in order to limit contact with tooth enamel, which is quickly destroyed by citrus acids.
If there is no juicer at home, then you can get by with a piece of gauze, which is folded into several layers. By placing peeled fruits there, you need to manually extract the liquid.
Since culinary specialists do not advise rolling up juice for long-term storage, finding a safe and at the same time useful way to preserve it is quite problematic. But by trial and error, the hostesses learned to slightly extend the shelf life of treats using a special cooking technology for short-term storage:
- First, the fruits are washed, peeled and juice is made.
- The workpiece is poured into a saucepan, sending it to the fire.
- Previously removed zest floats up there. Moreover, it does not matter at all in what form it will be put there: crushed or in large pieces.
- The workpiece warms up to 70 degrees, preventing boiling.
The final step is to allow the essential oils from the tangerine skins to blend into the base. After reaching the desired temperature, the saucepan with the contents is sent to cool in a cool place.
Store the resulting result in a cool place after pre-bottling in glass bottles. You need to drink it no later than two weeks after preparation.
Over time, the beneficial properties evaporate, and the aroma becomes weakly expressed.
Smoothies for mood
If pure juice is already tired, and marmalade based on it is too lazy to make, then you can find a middle ground and prepare a tangerine smoothie. It will please you with a charge of vivacity and will not take much time.
First, stock up on the following ingredients:
- 1 frozen banana;
- 2 teaspoons of lemon juice;
- half a glass of tangerine juice;
- 2 spoons of honey;
- half a glass of low-fat Greek yogurt;
- 2/3 cup ice;
- 1 whole tangerine.
First, whisk all the main ingredients together. Then you need to try the mixture and, according to the circumstances, additionally add honey or an acidifier. There is no exact dosage here, because everyone has a different level of acidity.
As soon as the desired taste is achieved, chopped citrus is poured into the mixture.
How to choose the right tangerines
In order for the juice to please with nutritional value and meet taste expectations, it is necessary to choose the right raw materials. Today it is much easier to navigate in this matter on the varieties of fruits and the country of their importation. The most popular offers are:
- Abkhazian;
- Spanish;
- turkish;
- Moroccan;
- Israeli.
These types are most often imported into supermarkets of the countries of the former USSR. All of them have distinctive features. So, the Abkhazian product is tacitly called the most environmentally friendly. The opinion was formed due to the fact that, unlike their European “colleagues”, they are transported in less time, which does not require additional spraying on the product.
Many prefer the Spanish raw material, which has received a bright orange color and usually comes with green twigs. Their main feature is a thin skin, which will allow you to use more pulp for juice.
If you do not want to mess with the bones, then it is better to give preference to Turkish solutions. Their peel has a light orange or even yellow tone. But for the lack of seeds, you will have to pay with sourness.
Sweet tooth needs to pay attention to Moroccan supplies. The small size of the fruit allows them to ripen quickly, which guarantees a sweet center. The skin has a rich orange and sometimes reddish tone.
Israeli “solar balloons” are usually imported after the end of a series of winter celebrations. They almost never contain stones, but their flesh is rather dry, which is not particularly suitable for the purpose of extracting juice.
It is also worth paying attention to the overall appearance of the product. If the skin seems dried up, then the product has been lying for a long time and may begin to taste bitter. And if you have a choice between smooth tangerines and their counterparts with green tails, preference should be given to the latter.
It is most convenient to taste at least a slice before buying, which is possible in market conditions. But this is not allowed in supermarkets, so you will have to rely not on the external characteristics and climatic features of the producing country.