Turmeric tones and refreshes the body, so it is an ideal addition to drinks during hot days
Turmeric has a phenomenal taste, but this eastern spice provides many benefits for the body and people with diabetes. Turmeric tones and refreshes the body, but also helps control diabetes.
Vitality, energy and freshness of the body is obtained by including turmeric in drinks and meals
Research shows that turmeric contains several hundred useful active ingredients, of which 20 are antibiotic, 14 anticancer, 12 anti-inflammatory, and 10 antioxidative. The list of diseases that turmeric suppresses is long due to the complex medicinal composition of turmeric. Turmeric is an effective ally in the fight against insulin resistance because it lowers the level of free fatty acids in the body (which reduce the sensitivity of cells to insulin). It affects the normalization of glucose and HbA1C (glycolized hemoglobin) levels in the blood. and for people with a pre-diabetic condition, it reduces the risk of developing diabetes.
If you wrap the turmeric root in a piece of baking paper, you can store the turmeric root for up to 2 weeks in the fridge and up to 3 months in the freezer. Frozen turmeric root is even easier to grate than fresh.
It has been scientifically proven that turmeric lowers blood pressure and blood glucose levels, so you should not take more than the recommended doses. And what is very important, in the first period, check the level of glucose in the blood as well as the blood pressure more often to possibly (and according to needs) harmonize the doses of medicines with the appropriate amount of turmeric in the diet.
Refreshing drinks are an ideal solution for adding turmeric (although you can add turmeric to other dishes such as omelets, toasted sandwiches or cooked dishes towards the end of cooking to preserve the medicinal properties of turmeric).

1. Drink for the morning – clean, wash and dice turmeric root and ginger root, both about 10 cm long. Peel the orange and put the orange and turmeric root and ginger in a blender. Add ice cubes.
2. Sweet-bitter tonic – grind krukuma root about 5 cm long, grapefruit and orange in a blender. Mix the resulting juice with one and a half deciliters of sparkling water. Add mint leaves if you can.
3. Aromatic lemonade – pour the juice of one lemon into 2 deciliters of water. Add half a spoonful of turmeric powder, half a spoonful of cinnamon powder and a quarter of a spoonful of anise powder. Drink immediately because the aroma and medicinal properties are lost after standing.