When they talk about summer in the fridge, the sea buckthorn, or "royal berry" always comes to mind - as it is also called. Despite such a "title", this bush is unpretentious, but all its parts can be used either for pleasure, or for beauty, or for health. No wonder her special transports from Siberia were brought to the royal court, for which she received the name sea buckthorn. Sea buckthorn juice, sea buckthorn oil, tea from the leaves and young shoots - all serve the benefit of man. It is used in cooking - in baking, in the preparation of liqueurs, balms, tinctures and wines.
The composition of sea buckthorn oil
Ripe sea buckthorn berries contain 9% vegetable fat. But the useful properties of the "royal berries" are not exhausted. 
The list of its useful components includes:
- carotenoids give the product a cheerful orange-red shade. The content of carotenoids in it is the largest among all vegetable oils;
- fats - Omega-3 (3-6%), Omega-6 (10-15%), Omega-9 (9-12%);
- palmitoleic acid (20-30%);
- palmitic acid (27-39%);
- stearic acid (1-1.5%);
- myristic acid (1-1.5%);
- phospholipids;
- amino acids (18 names);
- flavonoids;
- triterpenic acids;
- organic acids - tartaric, malic, amber, oxalic, salicylic;
- phytoncides;
- serotonin;
- pectins;
- coumarins;
- B vitamins - B1, B2, B3, B6, B9;
- vitamin C;
- vitamin E;
- vitamin K;
- vitamin P;
- minerals - aluminum, boron, vanadium, iron, calcium, cobalt, silicon, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, sodium, nickel, sulfur, strontium, titanium, phosphorus, zinc. Their total number includes 27 items.
Beneficial features
Sea buckthorn oil helps with many illnesses and health problems. It has bactericidal, antimicrobial and firming properties and is a unique multivitamin complex.
Read more about the benefits of sea buckthorn for the human body.
It is used for:
- immunity strengthening;
- increase the elasticity of the walls of blood vessels;
- improvement of metabolic processes in the body;
- normalization of hormonal background;
- treatment of infertility and female health problems;
- prevention of thrombosis and cholesterol plaques;
- improve the performance of the digestive tract (with constipation, hemorrhoids, gastritis);
- normalization of the liver, thyroid and pancreas;
- treatment of stomatitis, periodontal disease and gingivitis;
- eliminate sore throat with sore throat;
- treatment of wounds, abscesses, burns, pressure sores, frostbite;
- improve heart function;
- obesity prevention;
- vision improvement;
- elimination of cosmetic problems with skin and hair (wrinkle smoothing, peeling, pigmentation, dandruff, slow growth and loss);
- strengthen and restore male power.
Contraindications
The list of contraindications is small, but you should still pay attention to it. The very first is individual intolerance. Like many remedies, it cannot be used in the period of exacerbation of diseases:
- gastrointestinal tract - exacerbation of gastritis and gastric ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer;
- liver and biliary tract;
- pancreas; with diarrhea.
We advise you to learn about the devices and methods for quickly collecting sea buckthorn.
Berry preparation
Connoisseurs are advised to pick berries during the first frost - then the berries have the most complete set of useful components. Particular attention should be paid to the quality of the berries themselves - there should not be rotted, spoiled by birds or insects, immature. Berries should be washed thoroughly (several times, until the water is clear) and dried.
Important! When drying berries should be laid out in a single layer.Dry berries on any flat surface - on the table, baking sheet, plywood. To speed up this process, the surface can be covered with a cotton towel or natural fabric.
For cooking it is worth using red fruit varieties of sea buckthorn - Oilseed, Chulyshman and others. They contain more carotenoids, and the color is brighter.Find out how sea buckthorn juice is useful and how to make sea buckthorn compote.
Recipe number 1
In this recipe, oil can be obtained using sea buckthorn cake and sunflower oil.
- Take the cake (all that remains of the sea-buckthorn berries after squeezing the juice out of them).
- To grind it in a coffee grinder as best you can - the smaller it will be, the more nutrients it gets into the final product. It is recommended to pass cake through the coffee grinder 2 times.
- Place the crushed cake in a glass or ceramic container.
- Pour it with sunflower oil heated to 40-50 ° C (but not more) in a 1: 1 ratio and mix thoroughly.
- Close the container with a tin lid and place it in a warm and dark place for a month (for example, a cupboard or cupboard).
- It is possible to separate sea buckthorn oil from the oilcake using a conventional kitchen watering can and filter material. To do this, you can use a culinary sieve, cheesecloth, calico fabric. But the ideal "filter" will be kapron tights, which are put on the watering can. Gradually, the contents of the jar are placed there.
- Tights or stockings are suspended for 2-3 days, the oil flows into the dishes, the cake remains in the stocking.
- After straining the obtained substance, let it settle for another week so that small particles of oilcake settle to the bottom. After that, the finished oil can be drained again, poured into the containers in which it will be stored, corked and sent to the refrigerator.
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Recipe number 2
- Washed and dried berries squeeze.
- Dry the cake, grind to a state of flour, put in an enamel or glass dish.
- Pour the cake heated with 40-50 ° C olive or soybean oil (2: 3 ratio).
- Mixture put on a steam bath, bring to 40-50 ° C, mix and remove. Let it brew for several hours.
- Repeat the procedure with a steam bath 6 times - it is desirable to do this in the morning and evening.
- Filter the resulting oil, remove the cake, pour the resulting product into bottles.
- Insist for 2-3 days to settle the sediment, then strain again, pour into pre-prepared glass bottles, close tightly and put into the refrigerator.
Recipe number 3
The easiest way to get this valuable product.
- Only ripe berries are used. Rinse thoroughly under running water.
- Then squeeze the juice, which is poured into a bowl with a wide bottom (bowl or pot).
- Ready juice put on the day in a dark and dry place.
- Then a spoon collects in a glass container an oily film that has surfaced on the surface of the juice.
Did you know? In ancient Greece, sea buckthorn was called "shiny horse" - with its help, the strength of weakened animals was restored, after which they acquired a well-groomed and healthy look.The oil obtained in this way is very high quality. Keep it in the refrigerator and in a bottle that is very tightly sealed.
How to store sea buckthorn oil
Store must be in a dark glass container. Storage temperature should not exceed 10 ° C. And the best place to save all its beneficial properties is a refrigerator or any other dry, dark and cool place. Shelf life - 2 years.
Now sea buckthorn can not be called a wonder, it grows not in the botanical gardens, but in the dacha or backyard plots. And it serves not only as decoration, but also as protection from unwanted guests, whom he will meet with his famous spines, and an invaluable well of health, beauty and good mood.
