Feijoa juice is prepared in late autumn using fresh, fleshy berries, when a silvery-bluish vegetable wax appears on them. This is an indicator that the fruit is ripe and juicy enough for juicing.
Instructions
Step 1
The juice is prepared from the whole feijoa berry without removing the emerald skin. The valuable wax that appears on the surface of the fruit is a storehouse of beneficial essential oils. The juice is traditionally squeezed out with a press, and when pure water is added to the pulp, feijoa nectar is obtained. Juice can also be made at home, provided you have the right technique and follow certain rules. For the preparation of medicinal juice, it is important to select the ripe and juicy fruits. Unripe or spoiled berries can not only spoil the taste, but also cause unpleasant sensations in the stomach, up to and including poisoning. Before juicing, the fruits should be rinsed well with clean water.
Step 2
Real freshly squeezed feijoa juice is always opaque, even after filtration, pulp remains in it. The optimum temperature for juice is 22-25 ° C. If you pour it into a glass transparent glass, you will notice that the layers of pulp are heterogeneous and create unexpected color effects - from honey-yellow to greenish-brown shades. The taste of feijoa is soft, pleasant, invigorating with a slight sourness, and sometimes sweet and slightly sugary.
Step 3
A cocktail of freshly squeezed feijoa juice and banana nectar has a delicate melting taste and anti-stress effect. Feijoa juice should not be drunk more than one glass per day for adults, and even less for children. You should also limit its use to people with chronic diseases, including the digestive system, as well as pregnant women.
Step 4
Feijoa juice is used for medicinal purposes, it strengthens health, strengthens the immune system. It is used for problems of the gastrointestinal tract, gastritis, as well as for sclerosis and diabetes mellitus. The value of the fruit lies in the unique combination of iodine and essential oils, which is ideal for the treatment and restoration of the thyroid gland, as well as for kidney diseases. Ripe feijoa fruits are used to solve these problems, but fresh juice brings much more benefits and vitamins.
Step 5
Large ripe feijoa fruits, 5-10 cm in size, have an unusually beautiful aqua color with a metallic skin tone. Its taste is vaguely reminiscent of ripe strawberries with pineapple. Fruits grown in different soils differ in taste and color of the pulp, which can be from cream to pale pink. They grow on evergreen shrubs up to 4-6 meters high, some of which reach 10 meters and look like trees. This exotic plant native to South America is very common in all areas of the world with tropical and subtropical climates. Some varieties of feijoa are grown in the Krasnodar Territory of Russia, in the Crimea, the Caucasus and the countries of Central Asia.
