Today’s Healthy Drink: Ugu Leaf Juice

Pumpkin or Ugu leaf juice is widely used in African cuisine as an aside-dish for meat or a natural substitute for carbonated drinks. It is a very big source of vitamin D and minerals, so it is very beneficial for your health. It is also very delicious and many vegetarians give a preference to Ugu over other products. Sometimes it is used in many sweets or even when making medicine products. The Ugu leaf or simply pumpkin leaf is filled with iron, which helps with blood circulation and eases pain during “special days” in every woman’s life.

Pumpkin leaves have a lot of vitamins. The healthiest are Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium, and iron. However, one more benefit, which pumpkin leaves juice has is that while the juice is very tasty, it still has low calories. The amount of vitamins works well for all areas of your body. Vitamin A benefits your vision. Vitamin C helps your skin, which means that in the case of any wounds, scars, this vitamin helps your skin to renovate and recover faster. Also, pumpkin leaf has a lot of iron in it. Iron helps keep our muscles strong and carries oxygen itself from our lungs to other parts of the body. This is, what we call – hemoglobin. If you’ve ever had to deal with “anemia”, you know that this disease is caused due to iron deficiency.

How to make pumpkin leaf juice? Before we will talk about the many benefits of this amazing juice, let us show you this great recipe for preparing pumpkin leaf juice. There many different ways to prepare this wonderful drink, but we will tell you about Ugu juice recipe which is popular in Ebonyi state. It is more a smoothie than a juice. The taste of the drink is unforgettable. To make it, you need a sieve and a blender to process the leaves. This method of making the juice is easy and takes only 20 minutes. Check out how easy it is: • First of all, prepare the ingredients: some Ugu leaves, milk or a bottle of malt drink and one orange. Some people like to use both milk and malt drink. Also, if you do not have orange, you can also use pineapple instead. • Take Ugu leaves and rinse them with water, wash properly to avoid contamination. Make sure to remove all insects.

• After the leaves are ready to go, you do not need to cut them. Just simply put them into the blender.
• Add a bit of water and blend it until you see that the leaves have turned smooth. If you use a high speed to blend, this could take up to five minutes. It can also depend on what kind of blender you use.
• Five minutes later, pour the juice through a sieve.
• The juicy mass should be boiled for 90-120 seconds. This way, all the vitamins will stay in juice, which makes it not only tasty but a healthy drink. Leave the juice for a bit and let it cool down.
• Add a full cup or tin of milk or malt bottle drink into the solution.
• And now it is time for the orange! Squeeze the orange into the drink. Now, your Ugu leaf juice is ready to go!

Pumpkin juice is not only a tasty but healthy drink Ugwu juice is not only tasty but very good for your health. The benefits of pumpkin juice are uncountable. They contain many vitamins and minerals such as B1, B2, B6, C, E vitamins. Some minerals, such as phosphorus, calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron are also present in the vegetable leaves. Half a cup of pumpkin leaves juice is recommended for every person to drink daily. So let’s take a look at benefits of drinking Ugu leaves juice.

 

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