What is healthy to drink other than water? From the weight-loss benefits of cabbage juice and buckwheat tea to the kidney risks of carbonated beverages, explore how daily hydration choices impact your overall wellness.
Bright orange, sweet and refreshing, fresh carrot juice can be a good way of getting some of your essential nutrients. Carrot juice is mostly healthy for you, but it can cause some side effects, such as yellowing skin, if you drink a lot.
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Wheatgrass juice is made from juicing young wheatgrass, which is a member of the wheat family. Bright green in color with a sweet but potent grassy taste, wheatgrass juice is heralded for its numerous health benefits and its supposed detoxification properties.
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Made from a young grass originating from the wheat family, wheatgrass juice is a dietary supplement. Many health food aficionados praise wheatgrass juice and its purported health benefits, such as boosting your immune system.
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While you might know artichokes as a globular delicacy, with multiple overlapping leaves, this part is actually the flower of the plant. The longer, serrated, “true” leaves found along the stem of the plant are dried to make artichoke tea.
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African red tea, more commonly called rooibos tea, comes from the South African red bush and is naturally caffeine-free. It can be in the form of either green or red rooibos tea -- but red tea, the fermented variety, is more common.
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Carbonated water, sometimes called fizzy water, club soda, mineral water and a variety of other names, is merely drinking water with added carbonation, either from a chemical process, as with seltzer water, or through the introduction of pressurized gas to create bubbles or “fizz.
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Beets are usually roasted or boiled and eaten cooked, although you can shave them raw and add them to salads. Raw beets can also be made into a fresh juice using a juicer, extracting the nutrients from the root vegetable. This makes for an easy way to consume the health benefits of beets.
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Throughout the West Indies, and especially Jamaica, people use fever grass tea as an herbal remedy for colds, coughs and lowering fevers. Fever grass is the Jamaican name for lemongrass, and the tea is made from either fresh or dried “leaves” from the stalk of the plant; these are then cut into smaller pieces.
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Cabbage juice can be rich in dietary fiber and is naturally low in calories, making it a healthy weight-loss beverage. To make 1 cup of cabbage juice, juice 1 cup of chopped cabbage and mix in 1/4 cup of fresh water and the extracted fiber from the juicing process.
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The long, pale green fibrous stalks of celery make for a refreshing addition to a chopped salad as well as a low-calorie snack. Blending the stalks with fresh water will make a fiber-rich juice that is filling and healthy, making it ideal for a weight-loss plan.
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