Hey guys! Today’s recipe is a quick lemon/cucumber/ginger/mint detox drink that will help flush your internal systems of toxins. It’s a refreshing recipe and I hope you love it as much as I love dancing on street corners to music that doesn’t exist except in my head!
How this drink detoxifies you:
Cucumbers rejuvinate you through energy-boosting vitamin B. It also contains a lot of fiber that aids in removing toxins from the body, as well as aiding digestion.
The ginger aids digestion and also has anti-inflammatory properties. In 2010, there was a study done that followed people who consumed two grams of ginger each day for about eleven days. It turned out those people had a 25% drop in exercise-induced muscle pain. So all you runners/serious athletes out there? DRINK THIS!
Lemons clean your bowels, and neutralizes free radicals that cause aging. Lemons also contain 22 anti-cancer properties.
Mint promotes good digestion and contains enzymes that could prevent cancer.
Now let’s make this crazy delicious thing!
Ingredients
1/2 a cucumber, sliced1 lemon, sliced1/4 of a peeled and sliced ginger root1/2 cup mint leaves
mint leaves not pictured here because I forgot to get them at the grocery store
Preparation
Cut everything up and chuck it into a pitcher!
I have never cut up ginger root before now (*fist pumps* *checks item off bucket list*) but it’s pretty easy. Just make sure you peel the little chunk of ginger you’re going to use BEFORE you cut that piece from the ginger root– if you don’t have anything to hold onto while peeling it can be really tough to peel the small thing.
Also don’t add too much ginger. As you see in the picture, I only added like three small chunks into the water.
You can keep refilling the pitcher with water for about 3-4 days before you need to replace the ingredients.
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