Nutritionist names 4 least harmful hot drinks in coffee shops

President of the Association of Nutritionists and Health Coaches (ANKZ)

What hot drinks to choose in a cafe if you are watching your diet?

With the arrival of cold weather, hands reach for a cup of flavored coffee or tea. Except that drinks from the coffee shop often contain sugar and sugar syrups, a lot of milk and other harmful additives. Let’s see what useful options will warm you up in the cold and keep your mind and body awake.

In the fall, hot punch, mulled wine, spiced cocoa, and berry teas are popular. It is not difficult to find a useful warming drink, the main thing is to read the composition or clarify it with the waiter. The main criterion for a good option is the absence of sugar, sugar syrups and heavy cream.

Spicy drinks

If you want to warm up, I recommend choosing teas and drinks with the addition of spices and spices. Ginger, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon activate blood circulation, improve the work of the stomach and intestines, strengthen immunity. By the way, about the three most useful spices told in the article at the link.

Instead of the classic cappuccino or black tea with lemon, you can take a healthy raspberry-ginger tea, ginger tea with lemongrass or warming blueberry punch, which contains fresh blueberries and apple juice, but no sugar syrup.

Teas

Pay attention to teas without a tea leaf. Many establishments serve such drinks made from cranberries, rose hips, mint, sea buckthorn and kumquat.

For example, non-tea leaf lingonberry tea is made from mashed lingonberries, rosehips berries, mint and honey (a natural sweetener).

These teas should not be hot (up to 80 degrees is acceptable) to preserve the benefits of vitamin C and honey. These drinks have a subtle flavor, have tonic properties and are rich in vitamins.

Read more about these drinks in the material at the link.

Try Siberian teas. For example, tea based on taiga collection, which consists of Kuril tea, badan, currant leaf, thyme, herb ziziphora, thyme and pine nuts.

Alternative cocoa

In the cold, I suggest drinking cocoa, but not simple, and on vegetable milk with the addition of ginger.

Non-alcoholic hot drinks

I strongly advise against drinking alcohol and alcoholic beverages, despite the fact that they help to keep you warm.

Instead, opt for hot, dry apple cider with spices like cloves, cinnamon, and cardiac. Or a non-alcoholic mulled wine, such as sea buckthorn or spiced grape juice. These drinks are aromatic, tonic and uplifting, and the spices warm you up perfectly.