BEET AND CARROT JUICE: BENEFIT AND HARM, HOW TO PREPARE FRESHLY SQUEEZED, FOR WHAT AND HOW TO DRINK THE REMEDY, WHAT IT TREATS, IS IT POSSIBLE WITH APPLE, HONEY AND OTHER INGREDIENTS?

People have long known about the beneficial properties of carrots and beets. Eating them for food can not only enrich the body with useful substances, but also cure some diseases. The juice of these root crops will become a real pantry of vitamins, minerals and other useful substances.

How to cook and drink a mixture of carrot and beet juice? Under what ailments a vegetable cocktail will help, and when will it hurt? It is useful for gardeners and lovers of natural gifts to learn what a healing drink is good and dangerous with. In the article you can read the usefulness of freshly squeezed and settled beetroot-carrot juice, how to prepare it and how to drink it.

Chemical composition

Based on the calculation of 100 ml, the nutritional value of carrot-beet juice is 41 kcal.

The main nutrients in a drink are related as follows:

83.8% carbohydrates - 7.43 g;
15% of proteins - 1.33 g;
1.2% fat - 0.11 g

Juice combines all the beneficial properties of the components of carrots and beets. 100 ml of the drink contains the following vitamins:

3 mg of vitamin C;
2.33 mg of vitamin A;
0.3 mg of vitamin PP, or nicotinic acid;
0.233 mg of vitamin E;
0,027 vitamin B2;
0,007 vitamin B1.

Vegetable cocktail is saturated with microelements. These are the following substances:

about potassium;
about phosphorus;
about sodium;
about calcium;
about magnesium;
about iron.

The basis of the drink is water: it contains 84.6 ml in a 100 ml mix. Among other components, the following substances:

12.4 g of saccharides;
1 g of dietary fiber;
0.4 g of ash;
0.2 g of organic acids;
0.2 g of starch.

The exact composition of the drink depends on the varieties and the origin of the vegetables in it.

Benefits and harm of beet and carrot drink for the body

Beet-carrot drink eliminates beriberi, strengthens eyesight.

It also has the following positive effects:

strengthens the immune system;
stabilizes the bowels and stomach;
warns of oral diseases (how to treat a sore throat with beetroot, read here);
revitalizes the nervous system;
improves vascular and heart function;
speeds up metabolism;
removes harmful substances from the body (how to clean the blood vessels, intestines and liver with the help of beets, we described in this article).

Why drink a vegetable drink? Beet-carrot mix is drunk to become more enduring and overcome chronic fatigue. It provokes the production of gastric juice, which irritates the intestines and causes harm to people with decompensated diabetes and gastrointestinal diseases.

Indications and contraindications for use and what vegetables are treated for

Carrot and beet juice is mixed for the complex therapy of diseases. It is used in the treatment of the following eye ailments:

conjunctivitis;
night blindness;
myopia;
blepharitis.

The drink supports the body in diseases of the nervous system.

Among them:

insomnia;
migraine;
meningitis;
encephalitis;
neurosis;
Alzheimer's disease.

Vegetable mix is recommended to drink with anemia and scurvy (how beets affect human blood, you can find out here).

When is it contraindicated?

Carrot beetroot juice is contraindicated for people with diseases of the digestive tract and urinary system. Among them are kidney diseases.

Drink relieves the body of toxins. This function is carried out at the expense of the kidneys, which bear an additional load.

Urolithiasis is among the ailments for which you can not drink a mix of beets and carrots. These are also the following violations:

about pyelonephritis;
glomerulonephritis;
about the omission of the kidneys;
about hydronephrosis;
about renal failure.

Whether it is permissible to use vegetable medicine for kidney disease, determines the nephrologist. Patients with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract should clarify contraindications from a gastroenterologist. The drink is forbidden to take with heartburn, with acute gastrointestinal diseases.

Among them are the following:

gastric and intestinal ulcers;
gastritis;
colitis.

It is dangerous for people with decompensated diabetes, with low blood pressure. Before taking risks, they need to contact an endocrinologist and, accordingly, a neuropathologist or cardiologist. Drink harm allergies and children up to 1 year.

Step-by-step instruction: how to make a fresh drink?

Juice squeezed from fresh root crops, untouched by pests and rot. Preference is given to vegetables grown in a private garden.

The basic drink recipe includes the following products:

3 carrots;
1 beet;
50 ml of drinking water.

To prepare a cocktail with a juicer, it will take up to 3 hours. In this act as follows:

Prepare the fruit. They are thoroughly washed, peeled.
Fruits chop into small cubes. Separately fold the beets, carrots separately.
Beets are passed through a juicer.
Beet juice is infused at room temperature for at least 2 hours.
A juicer is loaded with carrot cubes to get the juice.
Beet and carrot juice mixed, diluted with drinking water.

Instead of a juicer, a blender or a grater with small holes will do. To begin with, washed and peeled beets and carrots are separately ground or ground.

Further act as follows:

Clean gauze is rolled into 4 layers to cover a deep bowl with it.
Beet mass spread over the fabric, collecting gauze edges. Should get a bag of beets inside.
The bag is held over a bowl and twisted so that the piece of vegetable flesh is gradually compressed. Continue until the juice flows into the bowl. After the juice for 2 hours, clean in the fridge.
Cover another bowl with fresh gauze folded in 4 layers. Spread carrot pulp on top.
Gauze is collected in a bag and squeezed into a bowl.
Juices are mixed, diluted with drinking water.

Ready juice is sweetened with sugar and cooled, focusing on personal preferences.

How to drink for the treatment and prevention of disease?

Beet juice with carrots taken no more than 3 months in a row. After a 2 month break is required.
The medicine is drunk as follows:
for

1-3 times a day;
20 minutes before meals;
half a cup;
not exceeding the daily requirement of 400 ml.

Additional ingredients will make the drink tastier and healthier.

With honey

For the means of anemia will need 400 ml of beet-carrot juicecooked in a 1: 1 ratio. The following is added to it:

200 ml of black radish marc;
300 grams of buckwheat or other honey.

A quarter cup of the mixture is taken before meals for up to 3 months, then they take a break of 2 months.

For the treatment of arthritis

Use a mixture of carrot juice and beets in combination with infusion of pharmacy chamomile. 200 ml of liquids are mixed by adding 60 g of honey.

The drink is taken as follows:

before eating;
100 ml;
3 times a day;
no longer than 3 months in a row;
with a break of 2 months.

200 ml of beetroot and carrot juice is added to the tincture for the prevention of atherosclerosis.

It also includes the following components:

300 g of honey;
100 ml. cranberry juice;
100 ml. alcohol.

The mixture is kept for 3 days in the refrigerator.. A tablespoon of tincture taken 3 times a day.

Vegetable cocktail for constipation

For a drink, mix the following ingredients:

200 ml. beet juice (about how to prepare and take the juice from the beets, we told here);
100 ml. carrot juice;
not less than a tablespoon of honey.

One third of a glass of such juice is drunk 4 times a day, before meals, until constipation has passed.

With apple

Juice of peeled apples will improve the taste of beet-carrot mix. The mixture will help children with vitamin deficiency, they drink it for a month. For tumors of different nature, the juice from carrots, beets and apples are mixed in equal proportions. To them add a spoonful of lemon juice and dry ginger.

The mixture is drunk as follows:

on 100 ml. at a time;
since morning;
fasting;
during the month;
with a break for a week.

The general course of juice therapy lasts a year.

With radish

Mixing equally the juice from carrots, beets and black radish, get a remedy for low hemoglobin.

It takes up to 3 months, a tablespoon 4 times a day, before meals.

With celery

Vegetable juices are believed to be more beneficial than fruit juices, as they do not contain fructose (at least in the same large quantities. To slow down the development of oncology or reduce pressure, celery stalk is added to juice from 2 parts of carrots and 1 part of beets about the benefits of beet juice in oncology and how to take it properly, read in a separate material.) At the same time, celery is loaded into a juicer along with carrots.

With pumpkin

Beet-carrot drink pumpkin drink with colitis or coronary heart disease. To get 500 ml of this cocktail, mix 200 ml of carrot and pumpkin juice and 100 ml of beet juice.

The mixture is drunk for 3 months, interrupted for a month.

Possible side effects

Because of the beet, urine and stools become reddish. Having drunk juice in excess of the daily value, patients are at risk of facing other side effects:

with nausea;
with vomiting;
with dizziness;
with tachycardia;
with headache;
with increasing temperature;
with weakness.

Allergies from vegetable juice appear rash and puffiness.

Of the two common vegetables, beets and carrots, get a tool that helps with many diseases. It is not a panacea, but is suitable for combating anemia, with beriberi, and for complex treatment of ailments.