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Cranberry tea is a healthy drink with a rich composition and unique taste. It is combined with foods such as ginger, honey, juice, sea buckthorn, cinnamon. This combination endows cranberry tea with medicinal properties. Natural medicine will improve your health without the use of medications.
The most popular types of cranberry drink are classic tea with the addition of ginger, mint, lemon, honey. Berries have a low calorie content: 100 g of the product contains 26 kcal. Nutritionists recommend using the fruits, because they contain tannins that fight extra pounds.
The product is harvested from mid-autumn to the first frost in order to preserve more vitamins and nutrients in it. In recipes, it is better to use firm fresh berries, but if there are none, they can be replaced with frozen, soaked or dried ones.
Classic cranberry tea
The simplest recipe for the drink will strengthen the immune system, cheer up, improve appetite and prevent colds.
Ingredients:
- cranberries - 20 pcs.;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l .;
- boiling water - 250 ml.
Preparation:
- The selected berries are washed.
- In a small container, the beak is crushed and mixed with sugar.
- The resulting mixture is poured with boiling water.
- Tea is infused for 30 minutes, filtered. The healing drink is ready to drink.
The classic version of cranberry tea can be modified by adding fruits, herbs, juice, honey, and other ingredients. Many people prefer to drink a hot drink with cranberries, cinnamon and cloves.
Ingredients:
- water - 500 ml;
- strong tea - 500 ml;
- cranberries - 200 g;
- cinnamon - 2 sticks;
- orange juice - 1 tbsp.;
- cloves - 8 pcs.;
- sugar - 200 g
Preparation:
- The cranberries are sorted out, washed, rubbed through a sieve or beaten with a blender.
- Squeeze the juice with mashed potatoes using gauze.
- Berry pomace is put into a kettle, poured over with water, and brought to a boil.
- The resulting broth is filtered, mixed with sugar, orange and cranberry juice, spices.
- Strong tea is mixed with a drink and served hot.
Tea with cranberries and ginger
The drink increases the protective functions of the body. For its preparation, take fresh ginger root, not powder. The drink has antimicrobial properties, surprises with its taste and aroma.
Ingredients:
- cranberries - 30 g;
- black tea - 2 tbsp. l .;
- boiling water - 300 ml;
- cinnamon stick - 1 pc.;
- sugar, honey - to taste.
Preparation
- Cranberries are kneaded in a deep container.
- The resulting puree is placed in a teapot.
- Black tea is added to the cranberries.
- The mixture is poured with boiling water.
- Cinnamon is added to the tea.
- The drink is insisted for 20 minutes.
- Served with added sugar and honey.
Tea with cranberries, ginger and lemon
A healthy drink can be diversified by adding lemon slices, aromatic herbs and ginger to it.
Ingredients:
- cranberries - 120 g;
- grated ginger - 1 tsp;
- lemon - 2 pieces;
- boiling water - 0.5 l;
- linden blossom - 1 tsp;
- thyme - ½ tsp
Preparation:
- The cranberries are thoroughly washed, ground and placed in a teapot.
- Grated ginger, lemon, linden inflorescences, thyme are added to the puree.
- All ingredients are poured with boiling water.
- Tea is infused for 15 minutes.
The drink can be served without sugar, or you can use a sweetener in the form of liquid honey.
Tea with cranberries, ginger and honey
The warming drink will save you from colds during viral epidemics, with hypothermia. Tea with honey and ginger is a storehouse of vitamins.
Ingredients:
- water - 200 ml;
- cranberries - 30 g;
- ginger root - 1.5 tsp;
- flower honey - 1.5 tsp
Preparation:
- Cranberries are washed, ground and placed in a cup.
- Chopped fresh ginger is added to the fruit, poured with boiling water.
- The mixture is set aside for 15 minutes under a closed lid.
- Tea is filtered and cooled.
- Liquid flower honey is added before serving.
Water temperature should not exceed 40 degrees before serving. Otherwise, all the valuable properties of honey will not be preserved.
Cranberry and mint tea
When warm, the drink helps fight colds, nausea, cramps and colic. Chilled tea is a great thirst quencher.
Ingredients:
- black tea - 1 tbsp. l .;
- mint - 1 tbsp. l .;
- water - 300 ml;
- cranberries - 20 pcs.;
- honey, sugar - to taste.
Preparation:
- Mint and black tea are placed in a teapot.
- The mixture is poured with boiling water.
- After 10 minutes, add cranberries, grated through a sieve.
- All components are insisted for another 10 minutes.
- After filtration, the drink is served to the table, sugar and honey are added to taste.
Tea with cranberry and mint activates brain activity, improves concentration and improves mood. There is another recipe for a healthy drink with the addition of green tea and rose hips.
Ingredients:
- cranberries - 1 tbsp. l .;
- water - 600 ml;
- mint - 1 tbsp. l .;
- green tea - 2 tbsp. l .;
- rosehip - 10 berries;
- honey to taste.
Preparation:
- Green tea and dried rose hips are poured into a teapot.
- The cranberries are lightly kneaded so that the berries burst and placed in a teapot with chopped mint.
- All ingredients are poured over with hot water, covered with a lid and wrapped in a warm towel for 15 minutes.
- The drink is stirred, honey is added.
The benefits of cranberry tea
The cranberry contains trace elements, vitamins of group B, C, E, K1, glucose, fructose, betaine, bioflavonoids. The berry contains malic, citric, oxalic, ursolic, quinic and oleanolic acids. These useful components endow the berry with such properties as:
- the fight against infections, especially with diseases of the oral cavity;
- cystitis treatment;
- prevention of the development of thrombosis, stroke, varicose veins, renal diseases, arterial hypertension;
- antioxidant effect normalizes metabolism and the functioning of the digestive tract;
- strengthening immunity, reducing inflammatory processes in the body;
- due to the high glucose content, brain function improves;
- used in complex therapy for obesity, atherosclerosis, hypertension;
- a cranberry drink is allowed for children, it quenches thirst well;
- improves the patient's condition with coughs, sore throats, colds and liver diseases;
- vitamin P helps relieve fatigue, headaches and fights sleep disorders.
Studies have shown that cranberry tea increases the effect of antibiotics taken in the treatment of pyelonephritis. The drink is recommended to be taken together with such medicines in the presence of female diseases.
Conclusion
To saturate the body with vitamin C during the cold season, it is recommended to consume cranberry tea. The drink will cope with loss of appetite, poor health and mood. For any ailment, a consultation with a doctor is required, who will establish the cause of this condition and help eliminate the presence of contraindications to the use of cranberries.
When making tea, you can experiment on your own by changing the proportions and ingredients. Black tea is easy to replace with green or herbal tea.Orange will give a unique citrus taste no worse than lemon. But the main component should remain a red berry as a storehouse of nutrients.
