Introduction: Fresh fruits and vegetables in autumn are rich in various nutrients essential to the human body. They are very effective for nourishing the lungs, moistening yin, and relieving dryness and promoting the production of body fluids. When juiced and consumed with other beneficial foods, they become excellent health drinks for autumn wellness.
Pear Juice
Pear flesh is sweet, fragrant, and juicy, with effects such as clearing heat and detoxifying, moistening the lungs and promoting body fluids, and relieving coughs and reducing phlegm. Eaten raw, juiced, stewed, or made into a paste, it is effective for treating conditions like lung-heat cough, measles, cough in the elderly, and bronchitis. When juiced and consumed with water chestnut, honey, or sugarcane, the effects are even better.
Citrus Juice
Citrus fruits are cool in nature with a sweet and sour taste. They promote the production of body fluids, relieve coughs, moisten the lungs and reduce phlegm, and can sober up and promote urination. They are suitable for physical weakness, insufficient body fluids after febrile diseases, thirst, and alcohol-induced irritability and thirst. Juiced or preserved in honey, they are particularly good for treating lung-heat cough.
Grapes are nutritious, sweet and sour, and have the effects of tonifying the liver and kidneys, benefiting qi and blood, promoting body fluids, and promoting urination. Eating them raw can nourish yin and relieve vexation. Crushed and boiled with honey into a thick paste and taken with hot water, it is especially effective for treating vexation, fever, and thirst. Regular consumption is beneficial for neurasthenia and over-fatigue.
Pomegranate Juice
Pomegranates are warm in nature with a sweet and sour taste and have the effect of promoting body fluids and quenching vexation and thirst. They are an excellent food remedy for those with insufficient body fluids, dry mouth and throat, and persistent thirst. Pomegranate juice or a decoction can clear heat and detoxify, moisten the lungs and relieve coughs, and kill parasites and stop dysentery. It can be used to treat children's malnutrition, chronic diarrhea, and dysentery.
Radish Juice
Radish can clear heat and transform phlegm, promote body fluids and relieve coughs, and benefit the stomach and aid digestion. Eaten raw, it can treat thirst from febrile diseases, lung-heat cough, and thick phlegm. When juiced and consumed with sugarcane, pear, or lotus root, the effects are even better.
Notes on Drinking Juice
1. Fresh Juice in Fresh Packaging.
Usually packaged in plastic bottles or paper cartons, it must be stored under refrigerated conditions and has a short shelf life, mostly only 7-10 days. This type of juice is typically freshly squeezed, not pasteurized, and generally contains no added sugar, sweeteners, or preservatives. Its nutritional value is well-preserved, but its shelf life is very short.
2. Pure Juice.
Usually packaged in paper cartons or glass or plastic bottles, it can be stored at room temperature for over six months. This is mostly made by reconstituting concentrated juice from fruit-growing areas with water to the original juice concentration, followed by instantaneous high-temperature sterilization. Nutrients, especially vitamins, are lost, and the fruit's flavor is slightly altered. The concentration should be the same as, or at least similar to, freshly squeezed juice.
3. Concentrated Juice.
Often packaged in glass or plastic bottles, it has a long shelf life at room temperature. This type of juice contains more sugar and additives, and the label will specify the dilution ratio for consumption. Concentrated juice is convenient to carry, is generally high in sweetness, and the taste can be adjusted by the user.
4. Juice Beverages.
There are many varieties of carbonated and non-carbonated juice beverages, and the juice content varies.