The benefits and harm of beetroot kvass. Preparation of beetroot kvass at home. How to drink beetroot kvass

Beetroot in itself is very useful. Any derivatives from it will have healing properties for the human body. We will tell you in this article about the methods of preparing beetroot kvass, about the useful properties of this drink and contraindications of its use.

Beneficial properties of beetroot kvass

The healing power of beetroot kvass was known to the ancient peoples. Babylonians and Slavs constantly prepared this drink, regarding it as a drug for many diseases. Modern specialists in the field of medicine only confirm the fact that beet kvass has many useful properties:

• it has all the vitamins of group B, C, PP, K;
• the drink has potassium, magnesium, iron, calcium, copper, manganese;
• beetroot kvass is rich in flavonoids and volatile, acids and sugars, natural antioxidants and anthocyans.

Given this composition of the product, it is easy to guess what the beet kvass is useful:

1. The use of beetroot kvass helps to increase immunity.
2. It must be drunk to everyone who is diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia.
3. In oncological diseases, it is important for people to drink a glass of beetroot at least once every few days.
4. If any violations in the operation of the reproductive system are identified, beetroot kvass should be used.
5. For any diseases of the digestive system, it is necessary to drink kvass from beets, because it cleanses very well of toxins.
6. With hypertension and arteriosclerosis, doctors recommend drinking kvass cooked from beets at least once a week.
7. In case of violations in the work of the heart and vascular system (especially if a lot of harmful cholesterol has deposited on the vessels), it is important to drink, but not to abuse beet kvass.
8. With obesity, you need to drink beetroot kvass so that metabolism works better.
9. Beetroot kvass helps to rejuvenate and cleanse the skin. In order to improve health in this direction, you can prepare this vegetable drink for yourself.

The harm of beetroot kvass

Like any product, beetroot kvass has contraindications for use. Every person should know about them in order to maintain his health and extend life. Kvass from beets cannot be consumed if:

• it is made of stale products;
• you have problems with the urinary system and kidneys (if a person has gout, then beets are prohibited to him in any form);
• diagnosed peptic ulcer of the stomach;
• there is a gastritis or any disease of the gall bladder and its ducts;
• there is an individual intolerance to beets and products derived from it.

How to cook beetroot kvass: health recipes

Knowing how many beneficial properties beet kvass has, you must prepare this drink at home. There are 3 main ways to prepare it:

1. Preparation without the use of yeast. Kvass begins fermentation itself. Because of this, it turns out to be more acidic, it can be stored for a long time. However, it is not recommended for children and pregnant women to use this drink, because it may contain pathogenic bacteria, the reproduction of which does not prevent anything.
2. Preparation based on bread and raisins. Such beetroot kvass is very tasty, but it cannot be stored for a long time.
3. Preparation based on fermentation of sour -milk products (milk or sour cream) is the most useful drink for the human body from all existing ones. However, such kvass also cannot be stored for a long time.

Classical recipe for beetroot kvass

Home beetroot kvass according to a classic recipe is prepared very easily, and most importantly, it can be prepared year -round. 100 g of such a drink contains only 12 calories. To cook it, you need:

1. Take 4 beets of small size, clean them and cut into small pieces.
2. Put the beetroot cut into a three -liter jar and fill it with 60 g of sugar.
3. Boil 3 liters of water, let it cool, and then pour it into a jar, where your beets are sugar.
4. Cover the jar with something so that insects do not get into it and leave in a warm room for 3 days. During this time, fermentation will occur. The drink will not become so saturated, bubbles will appear on its surface. As soon as you see this, you can start the use of beetroot kvass.

Beetroot kvass according to Bolotov

The benefits of beetroot kvass according to Bolotov’s recipe are incredibly great. It is prepared on the basis of fermentation of sour-milk products. 100 g of such a drink contains only 15 calories. To cook it, you need:

1. Take 4 medium -sized beets, clean them and chop them in a combine. You can use the blender - the main thing is that the beets are carefully chopped.
2. Put the beets in a three -liter jar.
3. Separately, in one container, mix 2 liters of milk serum, 70 g of sugar, 1 tsp. fat sour cream. Heat the resulting mixture so that it is warm, and then pour the beets with it.
4. Cover the three -liter jar with all the contents of the gauze and leave in a warm place for a week.
5. After 7 days, remove the resulting fungus from the surface of kvass and move kvass into the refrigerator for 24 hours.
6. After one day, take the kvass from the refrigerator, put in a warm place, and let it still stand in this state for 5 days.
7. Strain the resulting drink through gauze and drink.

You need to drink this beetroot kvass for the liver, stomach, intestines. Doctors recommend consuming 150 ml of this drink 2 times a day for 2 months.

Beetroot kvass for cleansing

You can cook beetroot kvass at home with the aim of cleansing the body of toxins and toxins. To do this, use this recipe:

1. Take 2 small beets in size, peel them, cut them in any convenient way and weld to softness.
2. You will need a decoction in which the beets were cooked. It needs to be filtered and added to the resulting water liquid. In total, you should get 3 liters of liquid.
3. Pour ½ cup sugar, 2 pieces of rye bread and 20 g of dry yeast into this water.
4. Cover the jar with gauze liquid and put it in a warm place for 3 days to start the fermentation process.
5. After the indicated time, you will need to strain kvass and put it in the refrigerator.

100 g of such kvass contains only 14 calories.

Beetroot kvass for weight loss

The above recipe for beetroot kvass to cleanse the body can also be used for weight loss. But it is better to use a simpler recipe, because drinking beetroot kvass to get rid of extra pounds will need in large portions during the day. What needs to be done to make a drink from beets for weight loss:

1. Take 3 medium -sized beets, peel them, cut them with cubes and put them in a three -liter jar.
2. Pour the beets of 3 liters of boiled water at room temperature.
3. Cover the jar of gauze and leave in a warm place for 4 days.
4. After the indicated number of days, strain the drink and pour into the bottles.

Drink this kvass 1.5 liters per day, but if you see that a suspicious mold of green color has appeared on the drink, it is better to pour such kvass and prepare a new one.

Beetroot kvass from pressure

There is another way to cook beetroot kvass for medicinal purposes. If you have pressure problems, and not a single way helps you normalize it, then you need to use the prescribed recipe below, how to make a beetroot kvass:

1. Take 1 large beets, peel it and cut into pieces.
2. Put the beets in a three -liter jar, add 4 tsp to it. liquid honey, 30 g of raisins, 100 g of rye bread and 3 liters of boiled, but cooled to room temperature of the water.
3. Cover the jar of gauze and leave it for 4 days at room temperature.
4. After the specified time, strain kvass and you can start drinking it - 1 glass before each meal for 1 month.

How to take beetroot kvass?

There are several basic rules how to drink beetroot kvass:

• If you drink kvass to lose weight, then drink a drink 30 minutes before each meal every day for several months (the duration of the intake depends on how much you want to lose weight).
• If you drink kvass from beetroot simply to arrange a fasting day, you can use it during the day instead of water. In this case, it is allowed to eat only some dried fruits, cottage cheese or apples.
• If you drink kvass in order to prevent one of the diseases that we listed above, then you need to drink ½ cup of beet kvass 1 time per day in 15 minutes before breakfast.
• In no case do not allow the daily norm of beet kvass to exceed 1.5 liters. Otherwise, you run the risk of encountering stomach disorder.

A very important point! If you drink kvass, then do not get behind the wheel for 1 hour, because alcohol appears in the process of fermentation in the drink.

Beetroot kvass is a wonderful alternative to many drinks in the summer heat. He tones, refreshes and satisfies thirst well. In the cold season, Kvass from beets will be an excellent preventive tool from many diseases, because it perfectly increases immunity.

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