The nutritionist listed healthy drinks in spring and summer

In the heat of spring and summer, you may feel like quenching your thirst with a carbonated or sugary drink. Larisa Gabdulkhakova, a nutritionist and nutritionist, recommended looking for healthy alternatives and trying to make homemade lemonades, and also explained their benefits to Izvestia. At the same time, the Cooper store and restaurant delivery service told us how much it costs to cook them yourself.

The expert noted that herbal teas and berry fruit drinks without sugar can also be useful — they are rich in vitamins and polyphenols, which have antioxidant properties. At the same time, lavender, grapefruit, and cucumber-basil lemonades can be prepared as homemade sweet drinks.

According to estimates by analysts of the delivery service, the preparation of lavender lemonade will cost Russians 281 rubles. This requires bottled pure water (1.5 liters), dried lavender (1.5 tbsp. l.), two lemons, one fourth cup of honey.

For those who want to make grapefruit lemonade, you will need water (1.5 liters), 400 g of grapefruit, 15-20 mint leaves, one fourth cup of honey. You will have to spend 207 rubles on this.

Cucumber-basil lemonade requires water (1.5 liters), one lime, two lemons, 15-20 basil leaves, one cucumber, two tablespoons of stevia. Cooking will cost 471 rubles.

"Mineral water without gas, of course, remains the most useful drink after regular water, it is choleretic of natural origin — it improves the outflow of bile, heals the intestinal mucosa, improves metabolism in the body. But sometimes you can indulge yourself. In addition to sugar—free fruit drinks, lemonades and herbal teas, you can drink homemade kvass or kombucha, probiotic drinks that are good for the body," Gabdulkhakova noted.

Earlier, on April 21, nutritionist and member of the Ahmad Tea Center for Industry Expertise Yulia Chernobrovkina told Izvestia that regular consumption of karkade can have a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system, improving blood circulation and reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Another useful property of the drink is its ability to regulate blood pressure.