Berry compote made of raspberry and currant

Improve your immune system and help the body resist harmful infections by drinking one pill. This requires a long work on themselves, in the process of which the attitude to their own diet and lifestyle is being revised. In food, more vitamins are added in the form of fruits, vegetables, berries, and occasional loads in the hall and in the fresh air join the sedentary work.

In order not to lose sight of the most popular summer source of vitamins - berries, it is worth considering how to keep them until the cold, in order to maintain the body and at this time. Someone freezes berries, and some make delicious preparations, for example, compote made of raspberries and currants. Just two of these berries can become a source of health during periods of virus activity.

Useful properties of raspberry

Talk about this product can be incredibly long, because raspberries are considered a real storehouse of vitamins and trace elements.

Interestingly, scientists have not yet been able to determine where this berry first appeared. It is only known that it has existed for 2000 years. This is proof that people have been cultivating raspberries for a very long time, perhaps this explains the impressive healing effect of its use.

In the composition of the berries there is a huge amount of substances, the general name of which is phytonutrients. Their high content is able to completely protect the body from inflammatory processes and significantly reduce the risk of chronic diseases. Most phytonutrients in raspberries are aimed at eliminating oxidative processes, which suppresses the effect of harmful organisms and substances. Raspberries show themselves as an excellent fighter with obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis, hypertension; It also strengthens the vessels and fights against tumors.

Useful properties of currant

Currant can also be called a real berry pharmacy. As early as the 16th century, legends went about its properties, and the most famous beauties added it to their breakfasts to support the body.

Currant contains pectin and tannins, potassium, iron, mineral salts, amino acids and vitamins A, B1, B2, C, P, which have a beneficial effect on the human body, resist inflammatory and tumor processes, improve peristalsis and coagulability, Eliminate excess cholesterol and salt, and also help the cardiovascular system.

In addition, the berry is valued for the presence of a high amount of provitamin A (carotene), which is needed for vision, the immune system and the musculoskeletal system. Red currant is also a powerful antioxidant, fighting aging skin.

How to cook compote?

You can please yourself with a delicious drink in the summer season, when the berries are the most useful and fresh. A compote made of raspberries and currants is very easy to make, even a child can cope with it. If you want to prepare a drink for instant use, you will need:

• Red currant - 250 g.
• Raspberries - 250 g.
• Water - 2 liters
• Sugar - 150 g.

The washed berries should be put in a saucepan, filled with water and cooked for 15 minutes, then add the sugar and hold on for another 10 minutes.

Due to the short heat treatment time, all the beneficial properties of berries are preserved, and you get a tasty and fragrant compote made of raspberries and currants. However, this recipe is not intended to roll a drink into cans.

How to cook compote for twist?

For those who like to open a jar with a vitamin drink in winter, this recipe will do. If you want to make compote for the winter, currants, raspberries, water and sugar will remain the main ingredients, only the proportions and the way of cooking will change.

Two sterilized berries with sugar are poured into a sterilized three-liter jar, they are poured hot water for 5-8 minutes. Then the water with sugar (we call it syrup) is poured into a saucepan, brought to a boil and returned to the jars. Now they can be twisted. As a result, a half-kilogram of berries and half a cup of sugar must be prepared for the bank.

Proponents of a healthy diet can completely abandon sweeteners and cook another compote. Raspberry, black currant - that's all the ingredients for the drink.

Contraindications

As with any product, these berries have contraindications, and therefore, you can not use them all:

• It is not recommended to use concentrated compote for people with allergies or small children.
• Acid berries are contraindicated for people with chronic or acute diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (gastritis, stomach ulcer), as well as people with exacerbation of urolithiasis, gout, nephritis.
• Accurately it is necessary to use compote for pregnant women, since raspberry strengthens the tone of the muscles of the uterus.
• People who have had a heart attack or a stroke, berry compote is also not recommended.
• At a thrombophlebitis and propensities to a thrombosis it is authorized to drink only strongly diluted drink.

All the rest can drink compote from raspberries and currants without restrictions, however, they should not be abused.