Cranberry Tea Recipes

Cranberry tea is a healthy drink with a rich composition and unique taste. It is combined with products such as ginger, honey, juice, sea buckthorn, and cinnamon. This combination gives cranberry tea its healing properties. Natural medicine will improve your health without the use of medications.

The most popular types of cranberry drinks are classic tea with the addition of ginger, mint, lemon, and honey. The berries are low in calories: 100 g of product contains 26 kcal. Nutritionists recommend using the fruits because they contain tannins that fight extra pounds.

The product is collected from mid-autumn until the first frost in order to retain more vitamins and nutrients. It is better to use firm fresh berries in recipes, but if these are not available, they can be replaced with frozen, soaked or dried ones.

Classic cranberry tea

The simplest drink recipe will strengthen the immune system, lift your spirits, improve your appetite and prevent colds.

Ingredients:

• cranberries – 20 pcs.;
• sugar – 2 tbsp. l.;
• boiling water – 250 ml.

Preparation:

1. Selected berries are washed.
2. In a small container, the beak is crushed and mixed with sugar.
3. The resulting mixture is poured with boiling water.
4. The tea is steeped for 30 minutes and filtered. The healing drink is ready for use.

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:

1. The cranberries are sorted, washed, rubbed through a sieve or blended with a blender.
2. The juice from the puree is squeezed out using gauze.
3. Berry squeezes are placed in a kettle, filled with water, and brought to a boil.
4. The resulting broth is filtered, mixed with sugar, orange and cranberry juice, and spices.
5. Strong tea is mixed with the drink and served hot.

Tea with cranberries and ginger

The drink increases the body's protective functions. To prepare it, take fresh ginger root, not powder. The drink has antimicrobial properties and 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

1. Cranberry fruits are kneaded in a deep container.
2. The resulting puree is placed in a teapot.
3. Black tea is added to cranberries.
4. The mixture is poured with boiling water.
5. Cinnamon is added to tea.
6. The drink is infused for 20 minutes.
7. Served with added sugar and honey.

Tea with cranberry, ginger and lemon

You can diversify this healthy drink by adding slices of lemon, aromatic herbs and ginger.

Ingredients:

• cranberries – 120 g;
• grated ginger – 1 tsp;
• lemon – 2 pieces;
• boiling water – 0.5 l;
• linden blossom - 1 tsp;
• thyme – ½ tsp.

Preparation:

1. The cranberries are thoroughly washed, ground and placed in a teapot.
2. Grated ginger, lemon, linden inflorescences, and thyme are added to the puree.
3. All ingredients are poured with boiling water.
4. The tea is steeped for 15 minutes.

The drink can be served without sugar or sweetened with liquid honey.

Tea with cranberries, ginger and honey

A warming drink will protect you from colds during viral epidemics and 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:

1. Cranberries are washed, ground and placed in a cup.
2. Chopped fresh ginger is added to the fruits and poured with boiling water.
3. The mixture is set aside for 15 minutes with the lid closed.
4. The tea is filtered and cooled.
5. Before serving, add liquid flower honey.

The 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. Iced tea perfectly quenches thirst.

Ingredients:

• black tea – 1 tbsp. l.;
• mint – 1 tbsp. l.;
• water – 300 ml;
• cranberries – 20 pcs.;
• honey, sugar - to taste.

Preparation:

1. Mint and black tea are placed in a teapot.
2. The mixture is poured with boiling water.
3. After 10 minutes, add cranberries ground through a sieve.
4. All components are infused for another 10 minutes.
5. After filtering, the drink is served to the table, sugar and honey are added to taste.

Tea with cranberries and mint will activate brain activity, improve concentration and lift your 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:

1. Green tea and dried rose hips are poured into a teapot.
2. The cranberries are lightly mashed so that the berries burst and placed in a teapot with chopped mint.
3. All ingredients are doused with hot water, covered with a lid and wrapped in a warm towel for 15 minutes.
4. The drink is stirred, honey is added.

Benefits of cranberry tea

Cranberries contain trace elements, vitamins B, C, E, K1, glucose, fructose, betaine, and bioflavonoids. The berry contains malic, citric, oxalic, ursolic, quinic and oleanolic acids. These useful components give the berry such properties as:

• fight against infections, especially in diseases of the oral cavity;
• treatment of cystitis;
• prevention of the development of thrombosis, stroke, varicose veins, kidney diseases, arterial hypertension;
• antioxidant effect normalizes metabolism and digestive tract function;
• strengthening the immune system, reducing inflammatory processes in the body;
• due to the high glucose content, brain function improves;
• used in complex therapy for obesity, atherosclerosis, hypertension;
• cranberry drink is allowed for children, it quenches thirst well;
• improves the patient's condition with cough, sore throat, colds and liver diseases;
• Vitamin P helps relieve fatigue, headaches and fights sleep disorders.

Studies have proven that cranberry tea increases the effect of antibiotics taken in the treatment of pyelonephritis. The drink is recommended to be taken together with such medications in the presence of female diseases.

Conclusion

To saturate the body with vitamin C during the cold season, it is recommended to drink tea with cranberries. The drink will cope with loss of appetite, poor health and mood. For any ailment, a consultation with your doctor is required, who will determine the cause of this condition and help eliminate the presence of contraindications to the use of cranberries.

When preparing tea, you can experiment on your own, changing the proportions and ingredients. Black tea can easily be replaced with green or herbal tea. Orange will give a unique citrus taste no worse than lemon. But the main component should remain the red berry as a storehouse of nutrients.

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