The health benefits of vegetables have been known for a long time. Beets are one of the healthiest root vegetables around. It improves blood composition, cleanses the body, helps with colds and runny nose, and even in the treatment of malignant diseases. The most useful is its juice. Making beet juice is not difficult at all.
It is necessary
- - Beets;
- - juicer or grater.
Instructions
Step 1
Take fresh beets, preferably oblong and dark in color, with green tops, wash them well with a brush. Peel and cut. Grate the beets or pass through a juicer. Also pass the fresh tops through a juicer, there are a lot of useful substances in it.
Step 2
Squeeze the juice from the grated beets through cheesecloth or a linen cloth, strain the juice from the juicer. Since fresh beetroot juice contains toxic volatile substances, it should not be drunk right away. Put an open glass with it in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours or just on the table so that they evaporate, otherwise you cannot avoid dizziness and nausea due to vasospasm. Remove foam on the surface of the juice.
Step 3
Start drinking beet juice, half diluted with boiled water, one spoon at a time, as it lowers blood pressure and has a strong laxative effect. As you get used to it, dilute it with carrot juice. Pure beet juice can be consumed no more than 150 g at a time up to 0.5 liters per day.
Step 4
Prepare beetroot juice for long-term storage: add 5 g of citric acid per 1 liter of juice and pour it into prepared 0.5 liter jars. Sterilize them for 10 minutes at 85 degrees, then screw them up.
