Infuse Your Water And Boost Your Consumption
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Do you want to increase your water consumption or help someone kick the soda habit? Infusing your water with fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs can make your water more refreshing and will make picking up that next glass of water much easier. Give it a try!
Ingredients
  • Use the fruit and vegetables you have on hand and think about what your favorite tastes are.
  • Fruits and Vegetables
  • Apples, beets, blackberries, bell peppers, blueberries, cantaloupe, carrots, cherries, cucumber, grapefruit, grapes, kiwi, nectarines, oranges, peaches, plums raspberries, strawberries, tangerines, and watermelon
  • Herbs and Spices
  • Basil, cardamom, cilantro, cinnamon, cloves, ginger root, lavender, lemon verbena, lemongrass, mint, rosemary, thyme, parsley, rose petals, vanilla bean
  • Suggested Combinations
  • Cucumber + lime + strawberry
  • Lemon + rosemary
  • Lemon + Thyme
  • Orange + blueberry + basil
  • Lime + Ginger root + basil
  • Orange + cinnamon + cloves
Instructions
  1. Wash fruits and vegetables and rinse herbs to remove any pesticides and chemicals.
  2. Use cold or room temperature water.
  3. Hot water can cause the fruit to fall apart.
  4. For a container, any water pitcher or jar can be used.
  5. Softer fruits like strawberries and citrus can be sliced thick, thin or quartered. Thinly slice harder fruits like apples because they take longer to release flavors.
  6. Crush herbs like rosemary, lemongrass and ginger root to release flavors.
  7. Anything loose like lavender and rose petals can be placed in a tea infuser and added to your water.
  8. Infuse water at room temperature for about 2 hours and then refrigerate.
  9. I have combined fruits and herbs in jars and refrigerated immediately without straining. The taste the next day was perfect. I've also filled a jar with water and reused the fruit and herb, such as lemon and rosemary.
  10. Some fruits like strawberries and melons can look waterlogged after a few hours.
  11. Unpeeled citrus like oranges can make water taste bitter after about 4 hours.
  12. Infused water can be refrigerated up to 3 days. Depending on what type of fruits and vegetable used, strain before refrigeration. I did not strain before I refrigerated the waters used in this post and they were delicious the next day.
  13. Have fun creating your own combinations!
  14. Enjoy!
Recipe by Sock Box 10 at https://sockbox10.com/recipes/infuse-your-water-boost-your-consumption/