A concentrate of vitamins to help you regain the right energy
As the summer season approaches and temperatures rise, our body can often experience some annoying ailments.
The so-called “summer blues” is a term used to indicate a series of ailments that occur or become more severe during the hot season.
In reality, we should not blame only the increase in temperatures if we feel tired, irritable, anxious and sleepless, these being among the most common disorders. Very often, the discomfort is due precisely to the physiological inability to manage the sudden changes in the different seasons.
How then to deal with sudden changes in temperature?
First of all by including lots of fruit and vegetables in your diet, which, thanks to their vitamins and mineral salts, provide a valid help in regaining lost energy.
Doing so is even easier if you have the possibility of preparing juice extracts at home. We have already proposed an energizing extract, to be prepared in the winter period. Today instead we decided to try something fresher, a multivitamin recipe created by Samanta of A Better Juice and made with our VIVO Big Mouth juice extractor.
We used strawberries , oranges , apple , carrot , mint and ginger .
The intense red color of this extract is an explosion of energy that surprises the sight and satisfies the palate, with sweet and aromatic notes.
By enjoying this extract you can fill up on energy and vitamins to face the arrival of the heat in top form!
Strawberries: the fruit that symbolizes summer
The undisputed protagonists of this extract are our beloved strawberries . These delicious fruits have an antioxidant power that far surpasses other foods and their vitamin C content is even higher than that of citrus fruits. For this reason, according to the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), strawberries are ranked among the top foods that help us fight the physiological aging of our body.
Like many other fruits, strawberries have a high content of potassium , manganese and phosphorus. Their properties are many, among the main ones we find anti-inflammatory , draining and purifying , but it does not end there because they are a valid help, if consumed regularly, also to prevent cardiovascular diseases. Finally, their discrete quantity of iodine is useful for the proper functioning of the thyroid .
Precisely for all these benefits, we had already suggested its use in our porridge recipe , for breakfast.
This multivitamin extract is ideal as a snack to break the hunger, but it can also become a very inviting cocktail as an alternative to the more common alcoholic ones, for a tasty and healthy aperitif on hot summer evenings. Even children will go crazy for it! By removing the ginger, this juice will be an excellent idea for a different snack than usual.
Are you ready to discover the recipe?
Ingredients
For 2 glasses:
- 2 oranges
- 250 g of strawberries
- 1 apple
- 1 carrot
- 2 cm ginger root
- 4 mint leaves
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Preparation
- Peel the oranges and cut them into small pieces, wash the strawberries well, remove the green part and cut them in half
- Peel the apple if it is not organic, remove the core and cut it into pieces together with the carrot, after having scraped it.
- Insert all the elements into the VIVO Big Mouth extractor together with the ginger and mint leaves to combine with the strawberries
- Let all the ingredients mix well, lift the drip-saving cap and collect all the juice in the appropriate jug
- Mix well, decorate the glass with fruit and serve chilled.