Pomegranate juice – drink made of pomegranate seeds.
Squeeze the juice from pomegranate is possible even without a juicer: it is enough to stretch his hands the ripe fruit is in the peel and when the grain will burst, the crust and squeeze the juice. Especially healing considered fruit with dark Burgundy beans, and the juice is sweeter.
Calorie content of pomegranate juice is 64 kcal per 100 grams of product.
The composition of pomegranate juice
Pomegranate juice contains plenty of vitamins C and b, organic acids, minerals and enzymes, potassium, antioxidants, and coumarins.
Useful properties of pomegranate juice
Pomegranate juice has long been considered the “king of vitamins. ” Hippocrates treated pomegranate juice gastric ailments, nervous disorders and fever.
Pomegranate juice increases hemoglobin levels and restores the body after surgery, helps with anemia, diseases of the heart, kidneys, gastritis, colitis, General fatigue, colds, sore throat, cleanses the blood vessels, regulates appetite and improves digestion.
Harm pomegranate juice
People with high acidity of the stomach better to drink pomegranate juice, diluting with water, its beneficial properties are not lost, and the stomach will not suffer.
Pomegranate juice in cooking
When you mix pomegranate juice with carrot and beet juice, it turns out vitamin-mineral cocktail. Of pomegranate juice make and liqueurs, punches, cocktails, syrups.
In the Eastern and Caucasian cuisine from pomegranate juice, prepare a variety of sauces and gravies. Marinated in pomegranate sauce, the meat is extremely juicy and tender, subtle pomegranate flavor.