Local products retain more useful substances than imported products, since they are produced in the region to which the body is accustomed. Well, if in your area, even better - in the garden growing celery. Previously undervalued( a century ago it was considered. .. a weed!) Now this vegetable is extremely popular among cooks, nutritionists and supporters of healthy and healthy food, and the benefits and harm of celery juice are the subject of active discussion.
Due to its specific spicy smell and piquant taste, this fragrant plant "came into vogue" first as a seasoning, and after as a full-fledged product. It is perfectly preserved( subject to certain conditions), therefore, throughout the year you can use root vegetables, leafy greens and petioles.
Celery is a unique product, rich in trace elements. Fans of diets try to include in the diet not only salads from celery in fresh form, but also use a fresh drink, squeezed out of leaves and stems.
Secrets of juice preparation
Freshly squeezed juice is the most effective way of using this medicinal spicy vegetable. How to prepare juice from celery?
It is best to take celery, which is grown in your garden, because the store vegetables contain harmful pesticides. The most useful is a vegetable with fresh dark leaves and firm elastic stems. However, the taste of the drink, squeezed from such celery, will be very saturated, so it is desirable to dilute it with water or use it to make a juice cocktail. Just before you squeeze the juice, you need to wash the vegetable and cut off the dry and faded leaves.
Recipe: For one serving of celery juice( 100 ml), only a few stems are needed. It is more convenient not to use a juicer, but an ordinary grater, a meat grinder or a blender shredder. The resulting gruel should be filtered using a layer of gauze fabric folded into several layers.
Useful and harmful properties of the celery juice
Useful qualities of celery juice
Fresh juice from celery is used to treat a wide variety of diseases due to its unique composition and wide spectrum of action on the body:
- restorative effect onthe digestive tract;
- treatment of bladder and kidney;
- diuretic and light loosening effect, cleansing the body, removing toxins;
- pressure reduction in hypertension;improvement of blood composition, prevention of blood clots, strokes;normalization of hemoglobin level;
- maintenance of immunity during the period of colds;
- decrease in the course of inflammatory processes( for example, with rheumatism, bronchitis);
- prevention of oncological diseases;
- combating stress and nervous tension, insomnia;
- increased tone and performance.
Advice: do not combine juice from celery with products of liquid consistency, which also have cleansing properties - there is a risk of getting a strengthened, double effect, which will give an undesirable load to the body.
Harm from application of celery juice
Despite the fact that celery juice is used for the preventive treatment of various diseases and generally has a beneficial healing effect on all body systems, there are a number of limitations and contraindications that need to be considered:
- gastritis, stomach ulcer;
- obesity;
- acute stages of diseases of the digestive tract, excretory and reproductive system;
- epilepsy;
- pregnancy and lactation;
- varicose veins, thrombophlebitis;
- risk of food allergies in childhood( up to three years);
- weakened organism, advanced age.
Celery juice will help to maintain harmony
Unique properties of celery juice are recognized not only among professional dieticians, but also have value for people who support slim figure and care for their tone and health.
This drink has a low calorie content - only 31 kcal / 100 ml, as 94% of its composition is water. Fresh juice is very quickly absorbed by the body, useful substances and trace elements are included in the metabolic processes, but the energy consumption for digesting the product is several times less, as if it were whole vegetables. Nutritionists call it a product with a negative calorie index, since the body burns more calories than it gets when digested.
It is recommended to drink juice of this spicy vegetable in combination with fresh juices from other vegetables, juicy fruits. Here are the recipes for slimming cocktails based on fresh celery juice:
- juices from carrots and celery in a 1: 1 ratio( no more than 100 gr);
- juice from a single celery stalk and cucumber puree;
- three bundles of celery leaves, half tomato, 100 gr.cabbage;
- juices of carrots, beets, celery root, pumpkin in a ratio of 2: 1: 1: 1;
- juices from two stalks of celery and four medium-sized oranges to dilute with a liter of clean filtered water;
- four medium stems of celery, two large carrots, one apple;
- three stalks of celery, three apples, one broccoli stalk, half a lemon;
- two or three stalks of celery and 250 ml of watermelon juice.
So, celery juice can be used for weight loss, as it successfully copes with body cleansing, removing accumulated harmful substances and normalizing the course of oxidation and reduction processes. This is an undoubted benefit for those who dream of a slim figure.
How to properly prepare this healing product with a juicer can be found from the video: