Home energy drinks

Aside from diet and training, health of our body depends on what you drink. Instead of sodas, juices from the store, we offer several recipes for home energy drink that will quench your thirst in the hot summer, but without compressing your body with unnecessary sweeteners and colorings. 

Cocoa beverage

 

For magical and medicinal qualities of cocoa know more Mayans and Aztecs. Cocoa beans contain a lot of vitamins and minerals (iron, zinc, potassium). The active ingredients have a positive effect on the cardiovascular and nervous system.Cocoa is an antidepressant, improves blood circulation and metabolism. Eat dark chocolate. Cocoa is recommended for athletes because it helps muscle recovery.

All these qualities have only pure cocoa, not advertised mixtures based on cocoa.The proportion of cocoa drink 2 tsp cocoa 1 tea cup of milk or water. The drink may be hot or cold. Cocoa helps to burn fat, but do not add sugar to drink, and if any milk, then let it be skim milk.

Energy drink

 

Suitable for those who want muscles and endurance training. In 1/2 liter of water add 1 tablespoon honey, 1 tablespoon of rosehip syrup, lemon juice to taste, 100 mg of vitamin C and a few cubes of ice.

Herbal tea

Herbal tea, green tea and black tea are all useful and natural sports drink.

Boil the tea, add to it a few sprigs of mint, lemon and sweeten with honey, if you allow it regime. Leave in the fridge to cool and eat.

Strawberry drink

 

Strawberries are bomb of vitamins and trace elements, fruit with very few calories.

Snack on strawberries in the spring and summer, in the winter can try to freeze.Strawberry drink has super healing qualities and increase your stamina. Its otheradvantages are that it enhances immunity and gives strength.

Puree the strawberries with some water or yoghurt. Natural and useful. Ifstrawberries are not sweet enough, you can add dried fruit to your taste: plums, apricots, dates and more. Similarly you can prepare and other fruit drinks.

Honey drink
 

The last suggestion is also easy to prepare. In 1 liter of water dissolve 2 tablespoons honey, 1 lemon, cut into circles and mint. Honey beverage is the most delicious when is chilled.

Dark Chocolate

Chocolate - the universal language of friendship and love!

Dark chocolate (also called natural or dark chocolate) contains cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla and lecithin (emulsifier).
Cocoa mass in dark chocolate available commercially ranging from 30% (sweet dark chocolate) to 70-80% and the content of milk is up 12%.

European rules specify a minimum content of cocoa mass in dark chocolate is 35%. In the U.S., there is no definition for dark chocolate, but only definition of "sweet chocolate", which means that the minimum concentration of cocoa mix should be 15%. Sweet chocolate does not have to be dark, and do not necessarily contain milk. 
Dark chocolate is rich in flavonoids and gallic acid. They protect the body from cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, claims that regular consumption of dark chocolate in small amounts can reduce the risk of heart attack and other heart diseases.

TYPES:

• SWEET CHOCOLATE  

Semi-sweet chocolate has a cocoa mass more than 15% and  milk content under 12%.

•  SEMI-SWEET CHOCOLATE

Semi-sweet chocolate is dark chocolate with low sugar content. Often used in cooking. It contains at least 35% cocoa mass and generally perceived as darker than sweet dark chocolate and sweeter than bittersweet chocolate. However, the lack of rules on the sugar content means that these classifications are still relative.

•  Bittersweet chocolate

Bittersweet chocolate is composed of at least 35% cocoa (cocoa mass and cocoa butter) 1/3 sugar, vanilla and sometimes lecithin. In most cases, this type of chocolate cocoa mass content ranges from 50 to 70-80%. The flavor is deeper and more bitter than the sweet dark or semi-sweet chocolate. However, the sugar content is not strictly regulated.
Bittersweet chocolate contains less sugar and more cocoa liquor semi-sweet chocolate, but the two are completely interchangeable when used for cooking purposes.

•  Unsweetened Chocolate

Unsweetened chocolate is pure cocoa mass and is known as "bitter chocolate" or "chocolate for baking." Is mixed with fat to obtain a solid substance.

It is unadulterated chocolate with a strong and deep flavor. With the addition of sugar, however, unsweetened chocolate is used as the basis for the preparation of cakes, biscuits and other types of chocolate (except white).