It’s time for the first harvest, when you can please your loved ones with homemade drinks made from fresh fruits and berries. Bright fruit drinks and compotes will be an excellent alternative to lemonades. They contain useful trace elements, including salts, the lack of which in the heat is not compensated by ordinary water.
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We tell you what delicious drinks can be made from seasonal berries and fruits. Choose combinations and enjoy the summer gifts.
The difference between mors and compote lies in the way the ingredients are processed. Mors is made from freshly squeezed juice of berries or fruits. It is diluted with boiled water or a decoction of cake. Sweetener is also added to taste. This cooking method allows you to save more useful substances. Compote is necessarily boiled, not always from fresh fruits, sometimes frozen berries or dried fruits are used. The drink is more often made with added sugar.
Both the fruit drink and the compote are delicious, but heat treatment in the second case significantly reduces the vitamin content. It does not add benefits and a large amount of sugar in the composition of compotes. But you can always find a healthier replacement. In a separate article, we analyzed the pros and cons of different sweeteners, and here we told you how to choose and use honey in cooking.
Raspberry, red and black currant juice
Berry juice is rich in vitamins and trace elements that strengthen the immune system. To preserve the taste and useful properties of the drink, it is better to use fresh berries and filtered water, and replace sugar with honey.
