Spice and Herb Detox Drink & its health benefits

Detox drinks: A regular spice and Herb Detox Drink intake will help you in your weight loss program, increase your metabolism, and aid in your digestion mechanism.

Spice and Herb Detox Drink

Do you think your last week is a whole cheat week, and you have consumed way too calories🤔? Whether it’s a wedding or festive season, we willingly or unwillingly end up eating rich, heavy, and calorie laded meals. And in the end, it’s just repentance and nothing else, but at least that savorous meal was a thing to grab onto, wasn’t it😋? So if you, too, have such a tempting and delicious week, this post is just for you. Stay tuned to learn how to detoxify your body after heavy meals with a detox drink.

But let’s first understand what a detox drink is.

What is a Detox drink/Infused Water?

Detox water or Detox drink is Water infused with the flavors of herbs, fruits, or vegetables. Or a mix of ingredients. It’s sometimes referred to as fruit-infused or fruit-flavored Water when we add fruit to our detox water.

One can easily make detox water at home in lots of different ways. Use any combination of fruits, vegetables, and herbs per your preferences. The best thing is that it contains significantly fewer calories because it’s made by infusing flavor rather than juicing or blending the fruits. 

Detox water is also used in weight loss plans and is a thing to carry while leaving for the gym, especially in place of high-sugar drinks like soda and fruit juice.

There are lots of benefits of Detox drink.

Here I will show you one of my favorite detox drinks that helps detox your body after a heavy & rich feast and aids in digestion, bloating, and other stomach-related issues if you have one. Being a foodie, I can’t skip the scrumptious feast all the time; I prefer to make this drink whenever I feel the meal is too calorie laded and rich.

The drink which I am talking about is a Spice and herb detox drink. It is infused with lemon, ginger, Mint leaves(pudina), carom seed(ajwain ) & fennel seed(saunf). And the concoction of all these above herbs and spices made it a super drink that aids digestion, flushes toxins from the body, and also helps in weight loss. So isn’t it a win-win drink for you?

Benefits of spice and herb drink:

All the ingredients added to this drink are a superfood for our body that not only helps digestion and bloating but also aids in losing weight and other health benefits.

Water

Water is our lifeline. We can’t imagine our life without Water. In fact, our body consists of approx 60% of water content. And if, for any reason, this water content drops, its repercussions can be severe, like a muscular cramp, hypertension, constipation, kidney stone, gallbladder stone, depression, etc. So it’s essential to keep us hydrated with water intake. 

The benefit of Water for our body are:

• Flushing toxins from our body
• Aids in digestion
• prevent constipation
• Carry nutrition & oxygen to your cells
• maintain healthy blood pressure
• protect our organs & tissues
• Regulate our body temperature
• Cushion our joints and relieves pains.
• Keep the electrolyte (sodium) balance in our bodies.

And if the drink is infused with tasty flavors, many people drink more Water. So Infusion makes the Water more appealing.

Ingredients

 Carom seed (ajwain)

Ajwain is a plant that grows small, seed-like fruits similar to cumin & caraway. It is known by other names like ajwain, bishop’s weed, and ajowan caraway. It’s the most common spice used in Indian food. With its strong, bitter taste, its aroma is similar to thyme. 

The oil in the seed ajwain oil is beneficial as it contains a substance called “Thymol.” Thymol has anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, and antibacterial properties. It also treats digestive problems like indigestion, bloating, gas, etc. Studies also revealed that it helps treat peptic ulcers and sores in the esophagus, stomach, and intestines. Apart from digestive problems, having antibacterial and anti-fungal properties, it also helps in soothing cough, congestion, toothache, and arthritis pain relief, and even can lower your blood pressure. So isn’t it called a superfood?

Let’s take a dig into its nutrition counting

Nutrients per Serving

A single serving (i.e., one tsp) of carom seed contains:

• Calories: 5
• Carbohydrates: 1 gm
• Fat: less than 1 gm
• Protein: less than 1 gm
• Fiber: 1 gm
• Sugar: 0 gm

It also contains benefits of Potassium, Calcium, Iron & other Essential fatty acids.

Fennel seed (Saunf) 

It is a flavorful culinary herb with medicinal properties.

Fennel seeds not only aid in digestion but also improve the body’s metabolism. Having rich fiber content can help you to stay fuller for a longer time and keeps your hunger pangs at bay. And thus, it helps in promoting your weight loss. It is also Rich in vitamin C & has excellent immune-boosting properties.

And as per research & studies, this superfood also has cancer-fighting properties and can destroy breast & liver cancer cells and stop them from further spreading.

Nutrients per Serving

A single serving (i.e., one tsp) of fennel seeds contains: 

• Calories: 7
• Carbohydrates: 1 gm
• Fat: 0
• Protein: 0 gm
• Fiber: 1 gm
• Sugar: 0 gm

It also contains Vitamin C, Magnesium, Calcium, Iron, & Potassium benefits.

Mint leaves

It is a leafy plant mainly known for its cooling effect. Its dynamic flavor is used in our recipes in fresh & dry forms in tiny amounts. Mint is traditionally used in ayurvedic science to treat many ailments like irritable bowel syndrome. IBS is a common digestive tract disorder where patients suffer from stomach pain, gas, bloating, and changes in bowel habits. It also treats bad breath, colds & flu and decreases breastfeeding pain, as per the study; its consumption also improves brain function.

Nutrients per Serving

A single serving (i.e., one tbsp) of fresh peppermint contains: 

• Calories: 1
• Carbohydrates: 0 gm
• Fat: 0 gm
• Protein: 0 gm
• Fiber: less than 1 gm
• Sugar: 0 gm

Lemon

Lemons are loaded with healthy Vitamin C, a primary antioxidant that helps your cell from damaging free radicals. Vitamin C also helps in synthesizing collagen, absorbing iron & producing hormones for our body.

Lemon, when included in our drink, can aid in digestion & detoxification of our body. It makes our skin glow, promotes weight loss, and enhances our immunity; study reveals that it also helps prevent kidney stone formation. And top of that, it aids in boosting energy and elevating bad moods also.

Nutrients per Serving

One Tbsp of fresh lemon juice contains: 

• Calories: 3.15
• Carbohydrates: less than 1 gm
• Fat: less than 1 gm
• Protein: less than 1 gm
• Fiber: less than 1 gm
• Sugar: less than 1 gm

Ginger

Ginger is an integral part of traditional Indian cooking. It is also consumed in many other cuisines worldwide. Detox water with ginger is full of antioxidants. It helps lower the risk of health ailments like heart disease, cancer & diabetes.

Ginger water is also rich in minerals like potassium. Ginger is essential for your muscles, bones, heart & metabolism, as it helps balance the salt in your body cells. Lack of potassium in your body can lead to high blood pressure & heart problems.

It also reduces any inflammation in the body with its anti-inflammation properties. It also controls blood sugar and cholesterol and aids in weight loss.

Nutrients per Serving 

A one-cup serving of ginger water contains:

• Calories: 6
• Carbohydrates: 1 gm
• Fat: less than 1 gm
• Protein: Less than 1 gram
• Fiber: less than 1 gm
• Sugar: less than 1 gm

Consume this drink the next day; It’s better to start our day with this drink. Keep on refilling the jug till the end of the day. At night discard everything and can make fresh detox water for the next day.

Apart from this detox drink, one can make many other types of detox drinks as per their preferences.

To detoxify my body, I used to take this drink for a whole week and repeat it after an interval of 15 days. One can take it daily if one wishes.

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