Fruit drink

Fruit drink is called the soft drink made on the basis of fruit or berry juice. Juice in a certain ratio mixes with water and adds to mix sugar or honey to taste.

The fruit drink was known already far back in the past. There are several versions of an origin of the name of this tasty drink. On one of them it is considered that it came to Russian from the Latin word "mulsa" - "honey drink".

Advantage of a fruit drink

The fruit drink not only well satisfies thirst, but also has curative properties. Speaking about advantage of a fruit drink it is necessary to emphasize that its useful qualities are caused by the ingredients used for its preparation. Most often prepare the following types of a fruit drink:

• The cowberry fruit drink – stimulates appetite, increases immunity;
• Cranberry drink – has fortifying, tonic, febrifugal and antiseptic properties;
• The blackberry fruit drink – contributes to normalization of activity of a nervous system and digestive tract;
• The currant fruit drink – renders the antiinflammatory, sosudoukreplyayushchy and immunostimulating properties;
• The cherry fruit drink – lowers the level of harmful cholesterol in blood serum, promotes prevention of developing of intestinal infections.

The advantage of a fruit drink for health of the person is that it is vitamin-rich (A, PP, C, group B) and minerals (iron, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium). Nutritionists recommend to women to drink regularly a fruit drink at pregnancy since this drink saturates their organism with necessary vitamins, microelements and promotes thereby normal fetation.

In a warm look this drink has the warming qualities, and in cold it perfectly tones up and eliminates feeling of thirst. It is proved that the fruit drink promotes a mood raising, elimination of symptoms of neurosis and depression.

Cranberry drink and diseases of urinogenital system

In the middle of last century by scientists from the Moscow medical institute of Pirogov during scientific research it was established that cranberry drink considerably increases efficiency of therapy by pyelonephritis antibiotics. Further it was found out that he is obliged by this medicinal property to guipure acid which in large quantities contains in cranberry berries. Now doctors surely include cranberry drink in complex therapy of various urological and gynecologic infectious and inflammatory diseases.

Fruit drink at pregnancy

During pregnancy the organism of the woman needs higher doses of vitamins and microelements. Any kind of a fruit drink is the real well of these biologically active agents. In addition it does not contain dyes, fragrances, stabilizers and others, unhealthy women and fetations, substances. But the most useful type of a fruit drink at pregnancy is cranberry. It is connected with the fact that pregnant women quite often have inflammatory diseases of urinary tract. In the first half of pregnancy cystitis, and in the second – pyelonephritises. The regular use of cranberry drink allows to prevent their development, and in a case it is essential to lower a dosage of antibiotics and uroseptik.

Useful tips:

• It is desirable to prepare a fruit drink from those fruit and berries which grow in your area. It is connected with the fact that the nutritious and biologically active agents which are contained in them are better acquired;
• Traditionally in Russia for production of fruit drinks the garden and wild berries doing these soft drinks not only very tasty and fragrant, but also saturating with their vitamins are used;
• All types of berry fruit drinks contain in the structure a large amount of the useful acids, mineral salts and pectin promoting increase in immunity, normalization of activity of digestive tract, a conclusion from a human body of toxic substances;
• At preparation of a fruit drink it is possible to use safely a combination of various fruit and berries that allows to give to drink new scale of taste and to make it even more useful to health.