This is how to prepare elderberry juice
The best time for harvesting the berries is from mid-August until the end of September. The best juicers use a Steam, the elderberry juice to produce. You do not have at Hand, you can also use a cooking pot, a blender and a clean kitchen towel.
- Sort out any damaged berries and removing any stems and leaves. You then wash the remaining good berries thoroughly.
- The clean berries in the top tank of the steam juicer. In the container at the very bottom, you fill it with water and heat this until it evaporated, so is cooking. Through the steam the berries burst and the juice can run down into the middle container.
- To prepare the juice in the cooking pot, let the berries with a little water and bring to a boil and filter it then through a clean kitchen towel.
- The juice is ready, it can be bottled. To do this, you need boiled, so it's sterile and sealable bottles. Before bottling the juice, add 150 grams of sugar per Liter of juice.
- Fill the juice hot into bottles and seal them immediately. By the Cooling of the juice is under a lot of pressure in the bottles, which makes it durable.
Elderberry juice for your health (image: Pixabay)
So elderberry juice is good to your health
As already mentioned, raw elderberries, and by the way, all the other parts of the plant poisonous. The eating causes stomach discomfort, vomiting, and diarrhea. Are cooked, the berries being extremely healthy.
- Elderberry juice is a true Vitamin C bomb and brings a number of other important vitamins with. Due to the high Vitamin C content, you can strengthen with the juice of your immune system, and colds, and prevent.
- Because Vitamin C helps the body to also absorb iron, you can work an iron deficiency in the opposite. In addition, Vitamin C lowers your level of cholesterol.
- The violet dye Sambucyanin of the berries acts as a diuretic and anti-inflammatory. That is why elderberry juice is especially recommended, if you have to fight with problems of the kidneys or bladder. What are the symptoms of a bladder infection and home remedies and medications help, we have another counselor for you.
In the next post we will show you how you can also a very healthy vegetable juice do-it-yourself.
