Here we will tell you about 9 different lemonade, with different herbs, spices, additives, and even vegetables added to increase their medicinal power and improve your nutrition.

Lemons are citrus that is so nutritious they have medicinal properties. Just some of their nutrients are:

• Citric acid
• Minerals (calcium, magnesium)
• Vitamin C
• Bioflavonoids
• Pectin
• Limonene

Homemade lemonade is a great way to take advantage of all their nutritious properties, as well as prevent all kinds of diseases.

Below we will offer a variety of homemade lemonade and tell you how to make them even tastier, give them a special touch and combine their healing effects.

1. Mint

This is a medicinal plant that can aid digestion while refreshing and invigorating your body.

• Lemonade with fresh mint will help you during hot summer days, which tend to drain all your energy.
• It’s also a great choice to eat with hard-to-digest food or dessert.
• If you don’t have fresh mint on hand, you can make mint tea with dried leaves and add lemon juice after the tea cools.

2. Basil

This lemonade is perfect for making you feel better when you’re sad or depressed.

• It will also help prevent the weakening of your immune system that usually accompanies these types of negative emotional states.
• Basil is great because it helps you relax while stimulating you, depending on what your body needs.

3. Fennel

Lemonade made with fennel is the best choice for people who often experience bloating or gas, as it naturally aids your digestion.

• It also helps fight fluid retention.
• This lemonade should be enjoyed without other foods or before eating to take advantage of its special properties.

4. Cinnamon and ginger

Lemonade with cinnamon and ginger is pure energy. And if you drink it hot, it’s a great way to warm up on cold days or when you’re just plain sad.

With this lemonade you can:

• Strengthen your immune system
• Improve metabolism
• Regulate blood sugar
• Increase your libido
• Remove accumulated fluids from your body

5. Turmeric

This lemonade is so anti-inflammatory, cancer-preventing, and full of antioxidants that it deserves a permanent place in your diet.

Both turmeric and lemon perfectly improve liver function. This will improve your body’s ability to cleanse your blood and get rid of toxins.

6. Beetroot

Yes, you read that right. Beetroot lemonade is, unsurprisingly, a great combination to help you fight nausea and iron deficiency anemia thanks to its vitamin C, iron, and folic acid content.

Just add a piece of beetroot to your lemonade until you have a beautiful, delicious, purple drink.

7. Green tea

Lemonade made with green tea is great for the cardiovascular system. It is packed with antioxidants and even helps fight cancer.

Rich in minerals, this lemonade will help you burn calories and lose weight more easily, making it an ideal part of any weight-loss diet.

8. Isotonic

You can make lemonade into an isotonic drink to drink throughout the day, replenishing your body’s minerals and keeping you hydrated.

Add the following ingredients to a liter of lemonade:

• 1 pinch of baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt (3.5 g)
• brown sugar or honey (to taste)

How to make:

1. Add the baking soda and sea salt to the natural lemonade and mix well.
2. If desired, sweeten with a little honey or brown sugar.
3. The result will be a fresh, slightly salty chocolate drink.

9. Stevia and propolis

This lemonade, cold or hot, is a remedy to improve the immune system and prevent and treat colds, flu, coughs, sore throats, etc.

How to make:

1. Add stevia to taste and 25 drops of propolis per liter of lemonade and drink throughout the day.
2. However, stevia must be in the form of a pure extract. You will see the difference because the extract should be dark in color; it contains medicinal properties in addition to sweetness.

Picture Credit: VistaCreate

Why does oatmeal help lower cholesterol?

Oats are considered a superfood as well as a daily resource that we should all consume to take care of our health. It is good for the heart, regulates weight, improves digestion, and prevents constipation.

Great benefits of oats to reduce so-called bad cholesterol:

• Oatmeal contains soluble fiber, which is rich in lipoproteins and helps reduce the density of LDL (bad cholesterol).
• This type of fiber is similar to that found in apples, whose effectiveness in lowering cholesterol is well known.
• There is another aspect to keep in mind: not all foods that contain oats will help you lower your cholesterol. Example? Oatmeal cookies, which instead of helping you, can actually hurt because they contain a lot of sugar and saturated fat.

Ways to consume oatmeal to lower cholesterol

1. Oatmeal with green apple and cinnamon

Ingredients:

• 100 grams of instant oatmeal
• 1 green apple
• 1 glass of water (200 ml)
• a little cinnamon

Instructions:

• Start by washing and slicing the apple. It can not be cleaned, because it is in the peel and contains most of the useful properties that will help lower cholesterol.
• Now boil a glass of water with the oats until it is completely cooked. It’s very easy.
• After 10 minutes, add the apple pieces, and leave them to cook for another 20 minutes. When you see that the apple has softened, turn off the heat.
• Put everything in a blender and mix until smooth. Sprinkle a little cinnamon on top before eating. This is a great recipe for breakfast.

2. Oatmeal with pear

Ingredients:

• 1 pear
• 100 grams of instant oatmeal
• 1 glass of water
• 20 g of honey

Instructions:

• This dish is perfect for breakfast or lunch. To prepare it, you must first heat a glass of water in a saucepan and then pour the oats. Once it has acquired the desired sticky consistency, add a tablespoon of honey to give it more flavor.
• Then peel the pear and cut it into small pieces (do not peel). Pears are also ideal for fighting cholesterol, and in combination with oats, their potential benefits even increase.
• Put the oatmeal in your favorite bowl and add the pear pieces. It’s delicious and you get a nutritious and healthy breakfast.

3. Oatmeal with plums

Ingredients:

• 100 grams of instant oatmeal
• 2 plums
• 3 walnuts
• 1 glass of water

Instructions:

• Bring the water to a boil and add the oatmeal.
• While it is cooking, you can peel the plums.
• Also, chop the walnuts and set them aside for later use.
• When the oatmeal is cooked, put it in your favorite bowl, and add plums and walnuts.

This breakfast is an effective way to fight high cholesterol. In addition, it helps maintain a slim figure and eat right every day.

Keep in mind that the three best fruits to fight cholesterol are apples, pears, and plums. However, strawberries, blueberries, kiwis, and grapes are also very useful, so you can use any combination you want when you cook oatmeal in the morning to lower cholesterol.

In this case, the most important thing is to eat oatmeal every day.

In addition to oatmeal, do not forget to eat well during the day and exercise moderately. Start taking care of your health today!

Picture Credit: VistaCreate

New Year’s Gingerbread Recipe
This is a useful, delicious and festive cookie will surely bring the whole family together in the kitchen. In order to cook goodies, take 100 grams of coconut oil, two glasses of spit flour, 2 tablespoons of honey and an egg. You will also need spices: 2 generous tablespoons of ginger, a pinch of ground red pepper, clove, carnation and cinnamon, which you can also buy in a mortar or hammered in a mortar, a little lemon peel and a pinch of bucket for insurance.

First of all rinse coconut butter and mix it with honey and syrup. Then add molten spices to it, peel and let it cool down. After the slipping into the egg and then add a mixture of flour and baking powder. Make it, wrap it in the film and leave it in the freezer for an hour. After an hour, get out, roll the dough on the fluffed flour with parchment and cut out the future cookies with New Year’s forms.

This useful New Year’s dessert is fried fast enough – for 10-15 minutes at 356 degrees. By the way, if you want to hang cookies on a Christmas tree, do not forget to make holes in them with a toothpick!

Gingerbread cookie with fresh ginger

INGREDIENTS
2 glasses of sieved flour
1 glass of sugar
100 g of softened butter
1 egg
2 small ginger root
5-6 Inflorescences of Carnations
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon spittle

PREPARATION
Ginger clean and rub on a small grater. Cinnamon grind in mortar. Mix the flour with baking powder, grated ginger, cloves and cinnamon. Shake butter with sugar, add egg. In the resulting mixture add flour and knead the dough. Pour a table of flour, put it on a dough and roll it out. Cut the cookies from the dough with molds. Sprinkle with sugar or ground almonds. Lubricate the baking sheet or sprinkle with flour and place biscuits on it. Bake cookies in a warm oven for 25-30 minutes at a temperature of 356 degrees.

Picture Credit: PublicDomainPictures

Image credit: ThomasWolter

The fruits of lianon-like plants – berries – are tasty, useful, loved by all and have high nutritional value. One of the most favorite and outlandish berries for our places is Kiwifruit or Chinese gooseberry.

Many fell in love with the fruit for the original taste. Culinary experts and confectioners highly appreciate the aesthetic appearance of kiwi in a cut, using it as decorations for dishes and confectionery. However, the main advantage is the useful properties of kiwi fruit.

What vitamins are contained in kiwifruit

Kiwifruit is a pantry of nature. It contains a lot of vitamins, carbohydrates, proteins, microelements and fiber. In many respects, kiwi is a record among other berries and fruits.

In large quantities, the fruit contains vitamin C berries, this is more than in citrus, currant and Bulgarian pepper. The composition includes vitamins B2, B3, B9 and B6.

Kiwi Composition

Kiwi contains vitamins A, E, D and nicotinic acid. Micro- and macro elements that make up kiwi: magnesium, potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc and manganese.

About 10% of the kiwis are monosaccharides, disaccharides and fiber. It is also remarkable that in a berry minimum of calories – only 50 per 100 g of product, this makes kiwi an indispensable food for people who are trying to lose weight.

Useful properties of kiwi fruit

The use of kiwi has a beneficial effect on the immune system. It activates work, strengthens protective and recovery functions and increases stress resistance.

Kiwi can be considered a medicinal berry. The substances that are contained in it, have a beneficial effect on the heart, activate cellular metabolism, improve digestion and minimize the risk of oncological diseases. The benefits of kiwi are palpable with regular use. The product is a preventive agent for rheumatic diseases, prevents the development of urolithiasis and improves the work of the respiratory system.

Properties of Kiwi

Women like the useful properties of kiwi fruit. Using it as food, you can prevent the appearance of gray hair in your hair, improve lipid metabolism, burn fat and bring yourself in shape. It is proved that 1 kiwi for dessert will prevent the appearance of gravity in the stomach, help get rid of heartburn and remove salt from the body – this is useful for those who love salty foods.

Kiwi is used as a part of face masks. The skin becomes soft, velvety, the turgor of the tissue improves and a healthy color is restored.

Using kiwi every day, you can rid the body of harmful cholesterol, strengthen the walls of small vessels and capillaries, normalize the composition of blood, reduce the risk of thrombosis and prevent the development of hypertension.

Harm to kiwi

Kiwi is an exotic fruit, rich in fruit acids, so its use can cause tingling, slight burning in the mouth. Children should not give a lot of kiwi because of the risk of dermatosis of the oral cavity. Do not use kiwi with milk. Excessive use can lead to allergies.

Delicious and healthy cocktail of kiwi with lemon is an excellent, refreshing option for beginning a summer day.

Image credit: xxolgaxx

INGREDIENTS

• 2 kiwis
• ½ lemon
• 2 slices of orange
• 300 ml of mineral water
• 1 tbsp. honey

The amount of honey and lemon for the preparation of such a cocktail you can adjust to your taste, but we recommend you use kiwi at the rate of 1 kiwi per person per day – since it contains a daily dose of vitamins.

How to prepare a cocktail of kiwi with lemon
Kiwi peeled and cut into pieces, folded into a blender. Add lemon juice, orange slices and honey, whisk until smooth. Then add water and whisk again. Ready cocktail pour a glass of glasses and add ice.