The sea buckthorn is also called the "Lemon of the North" because it contains a lot of vitamin C and ranks second behind the rose hip in the ranking of the most vitamin-rich fruits. A tasty juice can be pressed from the berries, which can be used as a source of vitamin C in autumn and winter.

Sea buckthorn is extremely rich in vitamins

Harvest sea buckthorn

Sea buckthorn bushes are thorny and grow up to six meters high, which makes the berry harvest a bit difficult.
You can painstakingly pick the berries one by one, squeeze the berries on the branches (milk sea buckthorn), a rather mushy affair, or cut off the branches with the berries, freeze them completely, and the next day shake off the frozen berries.
Pruning the bush does not harm it, on the contrary, it stimulates the growth of new shoots.

Juice sea buckthorn

  1. Cut the required berry branches.
  2. Wash the berries under running water.
  3. Freeze the whole branches.
  4. The next day, thaw the berries, shake them off the branches and boil them once. The berries burst from the heat.
  5. Put the berries in a sieve, squeeze them gently and catch the juice.

You can also juice the sea buckthorn berries with a juicer. Due to the slow squeezing, not so much oxygen gets into the juice, hardly any foam is formed and all vital substances in the juice are preserved.

  1. Prepare the berries for the press: harvest, wash, freeze, thaw.
  2. Place the berries in the juicer and collect the juice.
  3. You can sweeten the juice with sugar, maple syrup, or honey.

Sea buckthorn juice in stock

If you want to preserve your sea buckthorn juice for the winter, boil the juice and add sugar in a ratio of 2:1. Pour the hot juice into previously sterilized bottles. Depending on your preference, you can drink the concentrated juice diluted with water or process it into jam.
If you want to cover your daily vitamin C requirements with sea buckthorn, you can easily dose the juice obtained. Freeze the juice in ice cube trays. The ice cubes contain roughly the amount of vitamin C needed for a day and can be dissolved in tea, muesli or other fruit juices.

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