Raspberry tea: a favorite taste and health from nature
At the mention of warming drinks with raspberries, a smile appears on our face. The favorite taste of raspberry tea has been known since childhood. This drink helps improve health through natural remedies.
Useful properties and composition
Raspberry jam tea is the most common way to treat the adverse symptoms of a cold in many families. Moreover, such home herbal medicine is successfully used not only in our country, but also far beyond its borders. A huge number of people living in various cities of the planet know about the benefits of raspberries.
Raspberry is a truly healing plant. Its useful properties are appreciated not only by specialists who use traditional methods of treatment, but also by doctors of official medicine. Therapists often prescribe warming drinks with raspberries to their patients to eliminate various uncomfortable symptoms of seasonal viral diseases.
The use of such a drink helps the body to quickly cope with pathogenic microbes that cause inflammation.
Raspberries contain a huge variety of useful trace elements. Berries are rich in calcium, iron and zinc. These minerals help the human body work better by normalizing the work of all vital organs.
Useful trace elements that are contained in fruits help improve immunity. Such an effect on the immune system contributes to the fact that the body becomes less susceptible to infection by dangerous microorganisms. This is especially true in the cold season, when the incidence of colds and flu increases significantly.
In order for the human body to work well, it needs a huge variety of different vitamins and minerals. In raspberries, these biologically active substances are in the correct ratio. It is thanks to this feature of the chemical composition that raspberries can be eaten by both adults and children. And tea made from raspberries will be an excellent means of strengthening immunity for all family members.
A raspberry warming drink will be useful for mature and even elderly people. Its use will help improve heart function and normalize heart rhythm, since raspberries contain quite a lot of potassium. On average, the content of this useful mineral in 100 grams of raspberries is 224 mg.
Potassium is essential for the proper functioning of the heart and blood vessels. For the normal functioning of the cardiovascular system, this biologically active substance must be ingested daily. Raspberry tea will be an excellent way to saturate the body with potassium, as well as other minerals that are no less important for humans.
Raspberries are a wonderful natural treat. The high content of natural sugars in them gives a special sweet taste to the berries. However, the calorie content of raspberries is low - only 53 kcal per 100 grams.
You can gain weight when eating raspberries if you eat berries in large quantities. If you eat delicious fruits, observing the measure, then you should not worry about the appearance of extra pounds.
Raspberry jam has a higher calorie content, which is often used as an addition to tea. This is due to the fact that quite a lot of sugar is added during the preparation of a dessert loved since childhood. So, the calorie content of 100 grams of raspberry jam is approximately 273 kcal. Such a product can already be called high-calorie, so you should not eat it with large tablespoons.
Raspberry tea is a great way to improve women's health. Women who experience certain disorders of calcium metabolism (for example, due to the onset of menopause) should pay their attention to this healthy drink. The fruits contain calcium - the most important component that ensures the strength of bone tissue.
Mature women who love to treat themselves to a cup of fragrant raspberry tea are less at risk of developing pathological fragility and fragility of bones. Drinking a delicious drink is a good prevention of disorders resulting from osteoporosis.
A raspberry drink is also useful for those who suffer from anemia. This condition can develop at any age. Anemia is characterized by a decrease in the amount of hemoglobin or red blood cells (erythrocytes) in the blood. Raspberry tea can help in the treatment of anemic syndrome that occurs with a variety of pathologies.
Most people use raspberry tea to treat the adverse symptoms of infections.It is believed that this drink helps fight germs and also has an anti-inflammatory effect on the body. If you start drinking raspberry tea from the very first days of the onset of cold symptoms, you can achieve recovery much faster.
This feature of the action of raspberry tea is largely due to the fact that it contains a whole complex of various organic acids. One of them is salicylic acid. This biologically active substance can be called a natural analogue of antibiotics. It has a detrimental effect on microbes, and also helps to eliminate the inflammatory process.
After hot tea with raspberries, sweat appears on the skin. This kind of induced sweating for a cold is a great way to fight infection. Together with sweat, the body releases toxins that appeared as a result of the inflammatory process.
Many people report that after sweating profusely during a cold, they feel much better. Also, such induced sweating contributes to the normalization of body temperature. This simple method of treatment is used by many mothers when they treat their sick babies. A cup of warming raspberry tea, drunk an hour before bedtime, helps to achieve normalization of body temperature and improves overall well-being.
In order to enhance the effect of the treatment procedure, a sick adult or child should not only drink warm raspberry tea, but also wear warm pajamas. Then you need to go to bed. The next morning, the elevated body temperature will decrease, and the sick person will feel much better.
Contraindications
Many people think that raspberry tea is an absolutely harmless drink that cannot cause any harm to the body. It's a delusion. Not all people can drink raspberry tea. In some cases, the use of such a drink can contribute to a deterioration in well-being and even lead to an exacerbation of chronic diseases.
So, you should not abuse raspberry tea for people who suffer from gout or disorders of uric acid metabolism in the body. The fact is that raspberries contain quite a lot of organic acids, which can provoke an exacerbation of these diseases.
Another contraindication to drinking raspberry tea is the presence of allergic pathologies. People who have a tendency to develop allergic manifestations should consult a doctor before drinking raspberry tea.
Harvesting berries for the winter
Raspberry tea can be prepared in many ways. To prepare a healthy warming drink, you can use both fresh and dried (or frozen) berries. An excellent alternative to tea is raspberry compote.
Freeze
Freezing raspberries at home is quite simple. To do this, the collected berries must be washed and carefully examined. All spoiled and rotten fruits should be thrown away. Berries containing worms and other insects should not be frozen. Of course, in the process of freezing, they will die, but drinking tea from frozen berries, in which insects swim, is at least unpleasant.
Pre-prepared berries should be placed in a freezer bag or in a special container. Do not stack the berries too tightly, as they can be very wrinkled.It is better to spread the fruits in even layers.
Freeze berries should be in small portions. It is better that each serving is about 1-1.5 cups. In this case, the berries are frozen fairly evenly and are less damaged. Also, such small volumes are easier to store in the freezer and, if necessary, get it for making tea or fruit drink.
Drying
Raspberries can also be dried. Moreover, you can dry not only berries, but also leaves. Before drying berries or raspberry leaves, they should be carefully sorted and washed. Spoiled vegetable raw materials when preparing blanks for the winter should not be.
Rotten or spoiled berries are rather poorly stored. Clean and undamaged berries not only store better, but also retain their beneficial properties for several months.
It is better to dry berries or chopped raspberry branches on a flat surface. For this purpose, you can use a baking sheet or wooden kitchen boards. It is better to cover them with a towel or other clean cloth. Raspberries should be dried in a sunny, well-ventilated place. So they dry out much faster and do not deteriorate.
During the drying process, the berries must be turned over. This is necessary so that all the moisture from the fruit evaporates evenly. As a rule, the whole process of drying berries takes about 5-7 days. After that, the dried fruits can be placed in a glass jar, which can be placed in a cool place.
Many people who dry raspberries at home resort to additional drying of the fruit. To do this, they place almost completely naturally dried berries in the oven, where they additionally dry the fruits.Alternative drying can also be done using a special technical device - a dryer.
Conservation
Raspberry compote or jam are delicacies familiar to us from a very early age. Each family has its own unique, time-tested recipe for these desserts. To prepare raspberry compote and jam according to the traditional recipe, very few ingredients are required: berries, sugar and water. You can enhance the taste by adding various additives.
So, you can cook raspberry and currant jam or add some apples to raspberry compote. Cooking such homemade preparations is a real scope for creativity.
Jam, cooked according to a favorite family recipe, is a delicious dessert that can decorate any family tea party.
How to brew correctly?
It would seem that even a child can handle the preparation of raspberry tea. However, not all cooks can agree with this. Fans of cooking delicious desserts add a wide variety of ingredients to their dishes. So, tea can be with lemon, mint, ginger, rosehip or other tasty and healthy additives.
When adding additional ingredients, the taste of the drink acquires completely new shades. Thus, a warming raspberry drink, flavored with new additives, can almost never get bored.
For pregnant women and children
Raspberry tea is an excellent therapy for various infections. During the patient's pregnancy, doctors try not to resort to prescribing antibiotics, since such therapy can lead to the development of adverse effects on the fetus.
At the same time, expectant mothers are highly susceptible to various colds and viral diseases.The thing is that immunity decreases during pregnancy. This is a physiological feature of the female body during the bearing of the baby.
Raspberry tea with honey helps a sick pregnant woman recover faster and cope with the adverse symptoms of a cold. Also, this drink helps with coughing and helps to normalize body temperature.
However, doctors note that drinking raspberry tea during pregnancy should be done with caution. The use of such a drink can provoke a deterioration in well-being. That is why you should always consult with your doctor before use.
Raspberry tea is an excellent remedy for colds and for babies. The salicylic acid contained in this drink helps the child's body recover faster and helps strengthen the immune system. Such a drink should be taken after consulting a pediatrician.
Drink with HB: how to drink?
Mothers who are breastfeeding their babies should be very careful when drinking raspberry tea. It is better to use this warming drink in a small amount, so as not to harm yourself or your baby.
The use of such a drink during breastfeeding can contribute to the fact that the child may develop allergic rashes. In this case, the use of the drink should be stopped immediately.
Cold Recipes
Raspberry herbal tea will help to cope with the adverse symptoms of a cold. To prepare this drink, take 1 tbsp. l. raspberries and 1 tsp. crushed linden flowers and chamomile. They should be poured with a glass of boiling water and insisted in a glass dish under the lid for 20-30 minutes. This drink should be taken one hour after a meal.
You can quickly cope with the symptoms of a cold with the help of raspberry-ginger tea. To prepare it, you need 50 grams of berries, 1 tsp. dried ground ginger and 1 tsp. green leaf tea. All ingredients should be poured with 1-1.5 cups of boiling water. Tea should be infused for 5-7 minutes. You can sweeten the finished drink with a little honey.
To prepare traditional raspberry tea, you need 1 tbsp. l. berries and a glass of boiling water. Berries are poured with water and left to infuse for 10 minutes. The prepared drink has a bright taste.
Those with a sweet tooth can sweeten their tea by adding a spoonful of honey or regular sugar.
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