Cooling Your Appetite This Summer With Homemade Beverages

Backpedalling its prickly hot twenty-four hours with an unbeatable heat soused in disgust and discomfort, summer is approaching us soon. In fact, the preparatory days of summer have already arrived with its sway and stranglehold. Here’s the time when we need to quench our thirst many times in a day to beat the heat, feel relaxed and get a chilling sensation down the oesophagus. With the warm sunny days, you must enjoy some homemade beverages to give your health a nutritious boost. Here, is a list of some refreshing drinks that will please your taste buds without sabotaging your weight loss diet this summer. They are low in calories, immersed with a great way of increasing your fruits and vegetable intake and also helps from improving your digestion to treating and preventing heat-related ailments.

1. Aam Panna

Made out of unripe mangoes, this Indian summer drink is recognised for its heat-resistant properties. It helps with digestion, constipation and chronic stomach problems like irritable bowel syndrome. With marginal quantities of sugar, black salt, homemade ground spice of raw cumin seeds, black pepper, and a little bit of mango powder, prepare it at your home for glasses added with ice cubes.

2. Basil And Mint Juice

Make a juice of five to six basil leaves, mint, amla and coriander seeds or leaves with a tinge of lemon, rock salt, pepper, ground ajwain, and mango powder for the lip-smacking delight. This helps in rehydrating and cooling the body, reduces acidity and gas due to excessive heat.

3. Aloe Vera Juice With Mint And Lemon

This one is rich in minerals and vitamins. Aloe Vera is known as an adaptogen which boosts the natural ability of our body to stimulate its defensive mechanisms. It aids in cooling the body. Along with a few drops of mint water and lemon, it acts as a liver cleanser, boosts metabolism and helps those breadbaskets with a low appetite.

4. Chamomile Tea 

It is considered to be a great re-hydrating agent and helps in de-stressing. Take about two to three dried chamomile flowers in a cup of hot water and let it soak for ten minutes before straining it. For best results, consumption of 2-3 cups of chamomile tea everyday is the best thing to do.

5. Kokum Water

This one is a centuries-old prophylactic to reduce body heat and its ill consequences. Soak two to three kokum in water for about three to four hours and then mash it and strain the water to drink. This helps in keeping the body fluids and electrolytes replenished.