Discover recipes for tasty cocktails for active people that will give you strength before training and replenish your energy reserves after exercise. You can prepare them in just a few minutes using seasonal fruits and vegetables. Check it out!
Cocktail recipe: peanut buttermilk
(Pre-workout cocktail)
- 1 handful of strawberries
- ½ banana
- 200 ml buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons of peanut butter
- pinch of cinnamon
Mix strawberries, bananas and peanut butter with vegetable milk. Season with cinnamon.
Banana and strawberries are an excellent source of potassium which is essential for the proper activation of the cell membrane. Potassium with sodium affects the balance of fluids in our body and muscle function.
Cocktail recipe: pear in cabbage
(Pre-workout cocktail)
- 2 pears
- 1 cup chopped red cabbage leaves
- a few drops of lemon juice
Squeeze the cabbage and pears in a juicer or juicer. Add lemon juice and mix thoroughly.
Red cabbage is a great source of vitamin B1 (thiamine) necessary for the proper functioning of the muscles. High physical effort is the most common reason for its deficiency in the body, and a portion of the juice meets the daily requirement for this vitamin.
Cherry-apple cocktail recipe
(Post-workout cocktail)
- 1 handful of cherries (fresh pitted, frozen or less than a cup of compote)
- 1 apple
- 1 cup of plant-based milk
- 3 dates soaked in hot water
Mix cherries, apple and dates with plant-based milk
Cherry juice, as shown by studies on people who engage in high physical activity, reduced acidification of the body after exercise. This is the case, inter alia, because it contains a large amount of anthocyanins and flavonoids, which counteract the oxidation of chemical compounds and the appearance of inflammation.
Cocktail recipe: cocoa amaranth
(Post-workout cocktail)
- 1 ripe banana
- 1 teaspoon cocoa
- 1 cup of plant-based milk
- 4 tablespoons of amaranth popping
Mix the banana and cocoa with milkvegetable. Add amaranth popping (you can prepare it yourself at home, roasting the beans in a pan).
Amaranth, also known as amaranth, is characterized by high nutritional and he alth values, it is a source of exogenous amino acids, i.e. those that we must take with the diet because we are not able to produce them ourselves (lysine, cystine and methionine). It is also rich in magnesium, calcium and iron, as well as manganese and selenium.
The recipes come from the book "Tasty, He althy, Extraordinary - Cocktails for He alth and Beauty" by Katarzyna Błażejewska-Stuhr. In the third part of the bestseller "Cocktails for he alth and beauty" you can find dozens of new recipes for delicious and he althy cocktails with shopping lists. Try specially composed weekly treatments. Simple and effective, incl. anti-aging, detox, radiant smile, burning power and muscle strength.
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About the author: Katarzyna Błażejewska-Stuhr- clinical dietitian, psychodietician. The owner of a dietetics studio, she cooperates with the European Center for the Treatment of Child and Adult Obesity. She adheres to the principle that you can eat almost anything, the proportions are important. In the proposed diets, as well as in patient education, he places emphasis on seasonal, regional and - what is important - natural products. Author of the books "Cocktails for he alth and beauty, or how to stir in your life" and "Cocktails for he alth and beauty, or delicious, fresh, colorful" (Zwierciadło Publishing House).