RO/EN How to make homemade raw Sea Buckthorn juice

After this cold weather we had it would be wise to prepare ourselves for the flu that will come. One incredibly simple way to prevent the flu is to drink homemade raw sea buckthorn juice.

If you think you can do better things with your free time (instead of making the juice) let's make some calculations:

• 1kg (2.2 pounds) of sea buckthorn sold in bulk (sold in supermarket/hipermarket) costs between 2,57 euro/3.16 USD and 3.86 euro/4.74 USD
• One 16.9oz bottle of pasteurized sea buckthorn juice (sold in supermarket/hipermarket) costs at least 7.51 euro/ 9.23 USD
• Pharmaceutical medicine for treating the flu costs at least 5.79 euro/7.12 USD

How much does 4 days of flu costs you?

Let's do a SWOT analysis for the 3 possibilities

Everybody chooses whatever suits them...

Lets begin

The first step is to gather the stick, bark, leaves and possible insects you might find. In the process of picking the sea buckthorn berries, the branches with fruits are cut into smaller pieces and put into large freezers, after which the farmer uses a mechanical shaker to detach the berries from the branches. This is the simplest way of harvesting them, the classical way of harvesting them by hand is very difficult, one person can pick only 6-8 kg (13.22-17.63 pounds) of fruct per day.

Hey look what i've found! Hy little ladybug what are you doing there?

Then we wash the fruits.

You put a cup of water inside the blender, and a certain amount of fruits that you're blender can handle.

After 30 seconds or less, the berries are turned into a paste and just a small amount of seeds were cut into small pieces. If you grind alot of the seeds the juice will have a bitter taste.

Using a tea strainer and a spoon separate the juice from the seeds and pulp.

The juice is ready! In order to keep it without fermenting, the best things to do is to freeze it in ice trays ore even better in those special ice bags.

After it's frozen (it takes about 12 hours) just add one ice cube to your favorite tea, or put one ice cube in the thermos with tea that you are taking at work with you.

The taste of the raw juice is astringent, pleasant, and slightly sweet. It is not for everybody but you should try it at least once in your lifetime.