Harm and benefits of kvass

Well in the summer heat cool drink kvas, it refreshes, invigorates and ... the question arises, and brew it? And the benefit is the product, sold in casks and bottles? What's so special about kvass, and is it true that you can not drink while driving? Passion.ru proposes to examine these questions.

Where did he come from?
Kvass - a native Slavic drink, he is known for thousands of years. About kvass mention the ancient annals, and his recipes are passed from generation to generation. Each region or town has its own brand of kvass recipes. What do you think of what do brew? Of bread, and the answer you're not quite right - it brew prepared from almost any available food.

Distinguish between Ash and beet kvass, cloudberry and raspberry, strawberry, and barberry. In the brew were apples and pears, cranberries and currants, but it's not all. Maybe a thick brew of mint and cinnamon brew for hash, daily, ginger, white or red brew brew from the leaves of currant and even from Icelandic moss!

One of the recipes kvass called "sour soup" and is brewed from two varieties of malt with the addition of yeast buckwheat flour, diluted with water in a particular ratio. Unfortunately, in modern cities such drinks is unlikely to meet, the basic recipe remains the kvass kvass - it is made industrially and at home, zakvashivaya banks and containers.

Properties of kvass
Due to its special composition, brew perfect thirst quencher, and even fills in the heat, increases the activity and gives strength to work, activate the processes of digestion, resulting in improved appetite, it also helps in the digestion of fat and meat dishes, restores the balance of fluids and salts in body.

Kvass contain enough trace elements and vitamins, especially it is rich in B vitamins Due to formation of organic acids during fermentation, kvass is able to stimulate gastric acidity, and it is very useful when you are atrophic gastritis with a decrease in gastric secretion. In kvass lot of vitamin C, and in ancient Russia it was used as a remedy for scurvy and general exhaustion.

Due to the formation during fermentation of lactic acid and other acids, kvass in contact with the intestine it has effects similar to kefir and yogurt, kills harmful flora, supporting their own, useful. Thus, kvass - a great prevention of intestinal disorders and dysbiosis.

And yet there are indications in the ancient manuscripts, which increased the brew male potency, a special recipe for kvass were given to young men on their wedding day in order that they may convey a healthy offspring. Alas, the recipe did not survive, but most of all, you can use any high-quality brew as it is rich in vitamins and nutrients, which is essential for passionate nights.

What's interesting about kvass?


Earlier in Russia was considered a sign of affluence sweet sort of kvass with honey and raisins, it was the drink of the rich, the poor as a simple drink or beet kvass. Previously, year-round brew drinking, changing recipes, depending on the season and available products. And during Lent, this drink was one of the ways to support immunity and strength, along with the onion and slice of black bread. Now these delicious diet almost nobody complies, although slim people of the Slavs were many.

In our time, brew traditionally considered a summer drink, but today he has not lost its value - according to scientists because of its high calcium content it strengthens tooth enamel, a well-saturates and gives few calories, so it can be used in the diets. Included in the kvass yeast helps in the treatment of abscesses in the skin, pimples and boils, with purulent bronchitis, atherosclerosis of large vessels.

In addition, a brew house made of natural products, can be effectively used for hair growth and strengthening of their structure, kvass need to rinse your hair after washing.