Fragrant plum juice for a long winter in a juicer

July is the month when harvesting of plums for the winter begins. They are canned, compotes, jam are boiled, and the most useful preparation is plum juice for the winter in a juicer. Rich, vitamin, aromatic and 100% quality. Purchased juices are not always healthy drinks. It's much better to cook it yourself.

Read also the article: recipe for seedless cherry jam for the winter!

Plum juice: beneficial properties and harm

Plum juice contains a small amount of calories - about 70 kcal per 100 g. Contains sugars, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, organic acids, fats and vegetable proteins.

It occupies one of the leading places in terms of the content of various vitamins and minerals. Contains vitamins A, C, E, PP, beta-carotene, B vitamins, and is also rich in macronutrients - calcium and potassium, magnesium and phosphorus, sulfur and trace elements - fluorine, iron and manganese, iodine and zinc, copper and molybdenum, cobalt and nickel, chromium and silicon.

Why plum juice is useful:

1. Laxative effect, recommended for those who have poor bowel movements. It painlessly helps in this problem.
2. Improving urination and excretion of bile. Recommended for various hepatitis and gallbladder diseases.
3. Removes excess cholesterol. It is useful for patients with atherosclerosis.
4. Removes excess liquid, salt. In case of kidney diseases, it relieves puffiness, since it contains potassium in the composition. With rheumatism or gout, you can drink, but in very moderation.
5. Disinfects the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract, thanks to the phytoncides contained in the composition.
6. Reduces the acidity of the juice in the stomach. Recommended for gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.
7. Recommended for anemia.
8. Recommended for exposure to heavy metals and radiation or carcinogenic effects.
9. Keeps blood vessels healthy, improves blood composition.
10. Strengthens the walls of large and small vessels.
11. With regular use, the work of the nervous system improves, mood and concentration increase.
12. Cooking plum juice in a juicer can help relieve fear and anxiety.
13. The skin becomes elastic and smooth.

Contraindications:

1. Not recommended for severe obesity, diabetes.
2. Not advised if you have intestinal or stomach upset.

Plum juice should be given to babies carefully. It provokes bloating, diarrhea.

Juice cooker - assistant in the kitchen

A juice cooker is a good helper in the kitchen for the hostess, who makes preparations for the winter. It will process a large number of fruits and berries itself, without the participation of the hostess

The principle of operation of a juicer is similar to that of a double boiler:

1. The lower container is filled with water to a certain level and brought to a boil.
2. Other containers are installed on it: for juice and for fruits.
3. The steam softens the fruit. Juice begins to stand out from them.
4. The juice is collected in a second container.
5. After a certain time, the juice can be poured into jars without additional processing. Plum juice for the winter, obtained by distillation through a juicer, is ready!

After the steam has taken all the juice from the fruit, the pulp will remain in the first pan. It is used as a filling for baked goods. You can make marmalade from the pulp.

How to make juice from plums in a juicer can be found in the recipes below.

Fragrant plum juice in a juicer

Cooking delicious plum juice without pulp.

You will need:

• plums - 3 kg;
• granulated sugar - 100 g.

The first thing to check is whether the faucet of the juicer is tightly closed so that the steam does not leave it, but processes the fruit. Close the rubber hose with a clamp.

Preparation:

1. Wash selected fruits to prepare plum juice for the winter in a juicer.
2. Pour water into the apparatus and let it boil.
3. After it boils, pour the prepared whole fruits into a colander, cover with a lid, put the juicer on low heat, leave the apparatus for an hour.
4. Wait an hour, place a container for juice under the hose and remove the clip.
5. Then you need to add granulated sugar to the container. The ratio of sugar and juice obtained should be about 100 g per 1 liter.
6. Boil the sweetened juice for 5-7 minutes.
7. Then pour the freshly made juice into pre-sterilized jars.
8. Turn closed jars with lids down, cover with a blanket or wrap in a thick cloth.
9. Wait until the juice has cooled down, after which it should be placed in the pantry or basement for storage.

The drink obtained from the juicer can be added to jelly and compotes.

It is undesirable to overexpose fruits in a juicer, as the juice may not turn out very tasty.

Recipe: Plum Juice in a Juicer with Pulp

Ingredients for 1.5 liters of juice:

• plums - 4 kg;
• sugar - 300 g

We start to prepare:

1. Wash, dry and peel the fruit.
2. Then put the plums in a juicer and cook the juice.
3. Then pour the resulting juice into a saucepan with sugar, add the resulting pulp.
4. Bring to a boil over low heat.
5. Wait about 3 minutes, pour into jars and roll up.

Juice with pulp is useful because it contains many useful components, for example, pectin, fiber and much more, and drinking plum juice with pulp is especially useful in winter.

Plum halves juice

You will need:

• plums (pitted);
• sugar - 90 g per 1 kg of plums.

Cooking steps:

1. Pour at least 2.5 liters of water into a juicer and bring to a boil.
2. Wash the plums and remove the pit, dividing the plums in half.
3. Then load the plums into it and reduce the heat.
4. Cooking takes about an hour, then add sugar.
5. Pour the juice into pre-sterilized jars after boiling them.
6. Turn them upside down, cover with a thick cloth, put a lid on and refrigerate.

Water constantly boils in the lower saucepan, which means it can boil away. Therefore, periodically raise the saucepan and watch the amount of water. And, if you need to add water, then the stewpan is placed on a plate or hot stand prepared in advance.

Juicing tasty and healthy plums for the winter in a juicer is quick and easy!