Detox drink
Spring is well underway, and here in sunny San Diego, the weather has been so great.
Did you know that during the spring time your body is already in a detoxifying mode? Well, that makes life a little easier for you, right? So all you really need to do it help nudge the process along to get energy boosting, skin clearing effects ( :) hurrrr-RAY!)
I created this super simple, super yummy green drink to help encourage more detoxication.
Cilantro is a natural detoxifying herb. It's number one in the detoxifying herb world. It's known to help pull out heavy metals of the body like mercury, lead and aluminum. What the heck are those doing in your body anyways, you might ask? Well, these pesky metals sneak their way into our foods and drinks by way of getting into the soil mixed with contaminated water run off. Yuck :(!
It is a good healthy practice to regularly "detox", even if it is in simple ways daily. An example of detoxing daily would be to drink water with lemon first thing in the morning! This also aids in detox!
This cilantro detoxifying drink will help too! It uses lemongrass green tea for a refreshing, light pick me up and lemon to add a tangy, zesty flavor.
Check out my cilantro growing in my backyard! So nice to have fresh herbs on hand always!
Ingredients:
1- 2 tea bags of lemongrass green tea, steeped for approx 4-5 minutes cooled
Handful of cilantro
Handful of fresh mint to taste
Juice of 1/2 of a large lemon, or whole small lemon
Handful of ice
Directions:
Place cooled tea in a high powered blender like a Vitamix. Add in fresh cilantro and mint to taste, juice of lemon and ice. Blend all ingredients together to a thin smoothie consistency, or until desired consistency. I liked mine very thin, like fresh juice. Enjoy beverage cold.
Easy tip: Putting the green juice in a double insulated cup, like my new Healthy Human tumbler will help keep this rejuvenating drink cold much longer in these warm day. The stainless steel straw keeps each sip chilly too ;)!
**FUN FACT**: Did you know that 4-14% of people have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap!!! Weird I know! Scientist finally pin pointed a gene responsible for this crazy phenomenon, an olfactory receptor called OR6A2, which picks up the aldehydes in cilantro and SOAP!
But don't worry if you are one of these people! You can still make this great, detoxifying green juice! Swap cilantro for *parsley*, which still has great detoxifying and anti-oxidative properties! AND, it will still taste great along side the lemongrass tea, mint and lemon juice ;)!
Enjoy! :)