Honeysuckle - a beautiful handicraft plant no more than 2 meters high with purple berries. Unlike blueberries, the fruits of honeysuckle are oblong and can be both edible and not edible.
The taste of edible berries is sweet or sweet and sour, but not bitter. The bitter taste of the inedible berries, known as wolfberry, will leave its taste for a long time.
Sweet berries of honeysuckle can be found among the Altai, Caucasian, Kamchatka and Georgian varieties in a bluish or black hue. Red and orange fruits are poisonous and dangerous to health. Shrubs are often grown as ornamental garden or hedges.
The original taste and benefits of berries are used in cooking in the composition of jam, jelly, jam, stuffing for biscuits, compotes, juices and even cooking home wine.
Health benefits of the body
Useful honeysuckle:
- Useful organic substances and a whole complex of vitamins.
- The contents of the whole table of Mendeleev - potassium, copper, silicon, iodine, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and iron.
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Presence of pectins and tannins, which have a cleansing and anti-inflammatory effect on the body. - Has important macro and microelements.
- It is used in medicine for improving gastrointestinal tract, blood circulation, treatment of hypertension and malaria, used for bleeding, ulcers, as a laxative and diuretic, antipyretic.
- Refreshes and relieves thirst in hot weather.
- Displays salts of heavy metals.
- Strengthens memory.
- Berries contain selenium, which is responsible for youth.
Nutritional value and calorie content
One berry of honeysuckle contains only 35 calories, so it is often used in dietary menus.
- Carbohydrates - 8 g.
Vitamins:
- Vitamin C - 160 mg.
- Vitamin B2 - 3 mg.
- Vitamin B1 - 3 mg.
- Beta-carotene - 0.4 mg.
There is no contraindication for honeysuckle if there are berries in moderation.
Application of honeysuckle at home
Recipes of traditional medicine
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With a cold and sore throat .Leaves of honeysuckle pour boiling water, insist 20 minutes and put warm to boil. The resulting warm broth rinse your throat. - For improving memory and cardiovascular system .3 tbsp.l. Dried fruit of honeysuckle is poured 300 ml of boiling water and insisted for an hour.
- For skin diseases .Two weeks, the affected areas of the skin are treated with juice of the fruit of honeysuckle or make a compress.
- From sore throat and stomatitis .The bark is crushed in a tablespoon and added to a glass with boiling water, then boiled for 5-10 minutes and insisted for about an hour. Before use, the infusion is filtered and diluted with rinse water.
- To increase the immunity and from the avitaminosis .In a glass of boiling water a tablespoon of leaves are bred. The mixture is infused for 2 hours.50 grams is used 3 r / day until complete recovery.
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Recipes
It is possible to cook a variety of healthy food from honeysuckle berries, which also has useful, medicinal and dietary indications.
- Compote. 2/3 glass jar is filled with cleanly washed fruits. Next, a mixture of water and sugar is prepared. Sugar in the ratio of 400 g per 1 liter of water. Boiled syrup is poured into cans, then heated to 90 ° in 10-15 minutes. The can is tightly closed and turned over.
- Jam .Boil the syrup from 100 grams of water and 1: 1 kg of sugar and berries. The fruits of the plant are placed in the boiling mixture for no more than 5 minutes. After 7-9 hours, the syrup is 15 minutes.dovaritsya at medium power.
- Dry jam .Berries of honeysuckle are rubbed with sugar in a ratio of 1: 2, then heated until the sugar dissolves completely, stirring constantly. The resulting mixture is decomposed into glass jars and clogged.
- Dried honeysuckle .The fruits of the plant are laid out on a baking sheet, a little airy, then put in an oven or oven. Drying is done with the door open at t = 50 °, the berries from time to time are mixed. All cooking takes about 8 hours.
For slimming
Menu:
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Morning - cottage cheese with a handful of berries, herbal tea. - Day - vegetable soup, baked fish with vegetables.
- Snack - a cup of yogurt with berries.
- Evening - buckwheat and any fruit, a handful of berries.
- Before going to bed - a cup of yogurt.
