The grape juice to lower cholesterol is a great home remedy because the grape has a substance called resveratrol, which helps in reducing bad cholesterol and is a potent antioxidant.
Resveratrol is also found in red wine and therefore may also be a good choice to help control blood cholesterol, and it is advised to take at most 1 cup of red wine a day. However, these natural strategies do not exclude the need to adjust diet, exercise, and take the cholesterol-lowering medications indicated by the cardiologist.
Learn all about resveratrol in What Resveratrol is for.
1. Simple grape juice
Ingredients
- 1 kg of grapes;
- 1 liter of water;
- Sugar to taste.
Method of preparation
Put the grapes in a pan, add a cup of water and boil for about 15 minutes. Strain the resulting juice and beat in the blender along with the iced water and sugar to taste. Preferably, sugar should be exchanged for Stévia, which is a natural sweetener, more suitable for people with diabetes, for example.
2. Red fruit juice
Ingredients
- Half lemon;
- 250 g of seedless rosemary grapes;
- 200 g of red fruits;
- 1 teaspoon flaxseed oil;
- 125 mL of water.
Beat in the blender the juice extracted from the fruits in the centrifuge with the remaining ingredients and water.
One should drink one grape juice daily, still fasting, to lower cholesterol levels. Another option is to buy a bottle of grape juice concentrate, which can be found in some supermarkets or specialty stores and dilute a small amount of water and take daily. In this case, one should look for the integral grape juices, which are organic, because they have fewer additives.
