Pink Sherbet Lemonade
25/05/2018 | Tamara Brown

A detoxifying take on traditional lemonade, minus the sugar hit.Plus, it's PINK!
INGREDIENTS
  • 3 cups water
  • 1 cup raspberries
  • 1 apple
  • 1 lemon, peeled
  • 1 1/2 Tbsp granulated stevia
  • 1 cup ice
DIRECTIONS
  1. Roughly chop the beetroot and apple.Peel the lemon.
  2. Place 2 cups of the water, beetroot, apple, lemon, stevia and ice into a blender andblend on the highest speed until very smooth.
  3. Pour into a jug.Add the last cup of water and mix through. Makes 4 cups.
RAW TIP:
  1. If you prefer a sweeter drink, addan extra teaspoon of stevia.
  2. Or, for a more traditional taste, use rapadura sugar in place of stevia.
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A word from The Raw Food Girl
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My kids absolutely love lemonade.Come to think of it – so do I!
Actually let me just clarify that. I love homemade, chemical free, real food lemonade.Not the packaged poison variety Schweppes markets, which consists of carbonated water, a heap of sugar, lemon juice from concentrate food acid, fake flavours and preservatives (1).
Or worse, the diet variety.Get a load of these ingredients:
Ingredients:
Carbonated Water, Lemon Juice from Concentrate (2%), Citric Acid, Fla-vourings, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Citrate), Sweeteners (Aspartame, Sodium Saccharin), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Antioxidant (As corbic Acid). Contains a Source of Phe-nylalanine.” (2)
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I see a lot of fake sugar there, which is even worse for you than actual sugar. In fact, this 2009 study shows those consuming diet soft drinks are 67% more likely of developing Type 2 diabetes.Seriously!
And that’s notto mention the other health risks associated with consuming fake food.Aspartame alone accounts for over 75 percent of the adverse reactions to food additives reported to the Food & Drug Administration.Many of these reactions are very serious, in-cluding seizures and death (3).
please please stay away from fake sugars!There are so many natural ways satis-fying a sugar craving, I promise you there is no need to reach for this stuff.
Just have a browse through some of my Raw Desserts and you’ll see what I’m talking about!