Making lemonade yourself is wonderfully refreshing and tingly. I show you delicious and healthy lemonade recipes that you can make yourself very quickly.
When they hear the word lemonade, most people think of an extremely sweet and artificially colored drink. Orange, yellow, red, black - sodas come in all shades. There is no question of it being healthy.
Half a liter of orange soda contains about 15 sugar cubes, tons of dyes, preservatives and no oranges.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends eating no more than 25 grams of sugar per day. One sugar cube weighs 3 grams - so half a liter of soda comes to 45 grams of sugar!
With a large glass of soda per day, you have already exceeded this value many times over.
And let's be honest: You don't really feel refreshed after a sip of lemonade. Most of the time, you're even thirstier. So stop buying soda pop!
An alternative is needed. It should be refreshing, have a lot of flavor and bring variety into our drinking habits. Making lemonade yourself is the solution!
Whether you're giving herbs, fruits or veggies the edge, homemade lemonade is simply unbeatable.
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Why you should make lemonade yourself
Well, we have just discussed the first reason: Sugar!
Too much sugar makes you fat, sick and is simply mega unhealthy. But it doesn't have to be, there are so many great ways to sweeten homemade sodas. But more about that in a moment.
If sugar hasn't yet convinced you why you should make lemonade yourself, here are a few more arguments I've collected for you.
This speaks for making lemonade yourself
- Refreshes without refined sugar
- Many vitamins
- Tastes tingly delicious
- No preservatives and dyes
- Few ingredients
- You decide the taste
- Homemade lemonade is prepared quickly
Homemade lemonade consists of few ingredients and making it usually takes no more than 10 minutes.
Well, if these arguments do not speak for themselves? :)
A sparkling soda offers wonderful cooling on hot summer days. At any garden party, the DIY drink is welcome.
Lemonade without sugar: the alternatives
You should avoid sugar as much as possible. If you just make sure that your drinks do not contain household sugar, you have already taken a step in the right direction.
But just because you make soda yourself doesn't mean it's healthier. Most recipes you find on the internet have tons of it.
In many lemonade recipes, however, you can get by without sugar without any problems. Some, however, can tolerate a little sweetness. Especially if there are many lemons and limes in the drink.
Overall, however, I can say that if you start to consume less sugar, classic recipes and dishes will soon seem much too sweet. The body quickly gets used to it. The big advantage is that when you use less sugar, other flavors come out better.
The best sugar alternatives for your summer drinks:
- Agave syrup*
- Honey - it is best to heat it briefly in the microwave, then it is easier to stir in.
- Birch sugar- has only half as many calories and doesn't send your blood sugar on a rollercoaster
- Erythritol* is completely calorie-free
- Maple syrup
- Stevia
- Coconut blossom sugar*
- Sweet fruit
Homemade syrup is a great way to have soda on hand for longer periods of time. The syrup lasts for at least a year and can simply be infused with sparkling water.
Try these syrup recipes for your DIY soda. They are all prepared without household sugar:
- Rose syrup with lemon
- Fruity strawberry syrup
- Elderflower syrup with erythritol
- Floral lavender syrup
- Iced tea syrup - 3 delicious recipes
- Super delicious: violet syrup
- Ginger syrup with lemon
Sparkling refreshment: make lemonade yourself
Orange, mint, pomegranate, basil or classic with lemon? Lemonade is always a welcome refreshment. Especially on hot summer days, you quickly get tired of normal tasteless water.
To drink enough anyway, you can simply rely on making lemonade yourself.
Important ingredients that you need for the recipes, I have picked out. You can find them at Amazon:
So easy you can make your own iced tea!
The classic: make lemonade yourself
Lemon soda is especially refreshing. The citrus fruit also provides us with necessary vitamins and nutrients on the hot days.
It tastes best served ice cold!
Ingredients for your lemonade without sugar:
- 2 lemons
- 3 sprigs fresh mint
- 1 tablespoon stevia
- 500 ml mineral water
Here's how:
- Squeeze the lemons into a small bowl
- Add stevia
- You can crush the mint with a pestle
- Let stand for 10 minutes
- Pour with cold mineral water
Make lavender lemonade yourself
Once you've had the pleasure of homemade lavender lemonade, you'll never want to miss the taste again.
The basis for the lavender lemonade is a syrup of lemon, Birch sugar* and lavender.
Ingredients for the lavender lemonade with birch sugar
- 1 organic lemon
- 150 gram Birch sugar* (Xylitol*, Xucker)
- 3 TBSP. Lavender flowers* - dried or fresh
- Mineral water for refilling
Here's how:
- To make your own lavender lemonade, first squeeze the lemon.
- Put the lemon zest in a saucepan. To this add Birch sugar*1/4 liter tap water
- Boil up
- Lavender flowers* and lemon juice
- Allow to cool.
- Pour the syrup through a sieve and pour ice-cold mineral water.
- If you want more color, stir in a little beet powder.
Lavender limo goes perfectly with grilled melon!
Make orange lemonade yourself
The variant with oranges tastes a little sweeter than lemonade. It's so pleasantly fruity that we don't use any sugar at all.
By the way, with the homemade orange lemonade you also take up a whole lot of vitamin C. If you put 100 grams of home-squeezed orange juice into the lemonade, you'll have covered half your daily vitamin C requirement.
Ingredients for your orange soda without sugar
- 2 oranges
- 2 limes or 1 lemon
- 3 sprigs lemon balm (mint will do)
- Ice cold mineral water
Here's how:
- Squeeze oranges best just before serving
- Catch the juice and squeeze one lime - the other lime you cut into slices
- Pour the orange lime juice into a glass
- Pour with sparkling mineral water and decorate with mint and the lime slices
Homemade basil lime lemonade
It will be quite green with our next homemade lemonade. And a little sour or rather summer refreshing.
This summer drink proves that basil can be much more than just a decoration for mozzarella and tomato. Basil and lime make the perfect lemonade.
Ingredients for basil lime lemonade
- 1 bunch basil
- Agave syrup*
- 2 lemons
- 400 ml sparkling mineral water
Here's how
- Mix the basil leaves with Agave syrup* and 200 ml tap water.
- Simmer for 3 minutes
- Depending on whether you want small pieces in the herbal soda or not, you can puree the south or pour it through a fine sieve.
- Cold set
- Squeeze one lime. Cut the other one into small pieces.
- Add mineral water.
- Fill glasses with ice cubes and garnish with basil.
Lemonade with pomegranate and blueberries
This recipe is really delicious and fruity. The pomegranate is said to keep blood sugar levels low and even lower cholesterol.
In addition, it tastes slightly sour. Perfect for hot summer days when we can not get out of sweating.
If you want, you can squeeze the small red seeds for making lemonade. However, this is associated with relatively much effort. That's why they end up in my drink as normal.
If you process the seeds whole, let them steep with the mineral water for at least 15 minutes. This way you get more flavor in the lemonade.
Ingredients for the lemonade
- 1/2 pomegranate
- 1/2 lime
- 1 cup blueberries
- Mint
- 300 ml mineral water
Here's how:
- Remove the seeds from the pomegranate.
- Squeeze the lime and mix it with the pomegranate.
- Cut the blueberries in half.
- Chop the mint into small pieces.
- Mix all ingredients and pour with cold mineral water.
Have you ever made your own strawberry iced tea?
Make lemonade yourself with ginger and lemon
If you like it a little more tart, you should go for ginger and lemon. Ginger lemonade tastes very refreshing and leaves a pleasant taste in the mouth.
By the way, ginger is a great remedy if you feel bloated. Just drink some of this ginger lemonade and the bloated belly will go away by itself :)
The base for this soda is a homemade syrup that you can easily make.
Ingredients for ginger lemonade
- 30 g fresh ginger
- 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon birch sugar
- 150 ml tap water
Here's how:
- Peel the ginger bulb and grate very finely
- Halve and squeeze the lemon
- Boil ginger and lemon with birch sugar and tap water in a pot. About 5 minutes
- Infuse for 10 minutes
- Strain, pour into a glass and infuse with mineral water
- If you like, you can now stir in fresh lemon juice
This is what happens when you drink 3 liters of water a day!
Making herbal lemonade yourself
You can't go wrong with herbs. You can experiment and try a lot.
If you like it very refreshing, it's best to use peppermint. It cools from the inside.
By the way, this soda recipe is my absolute favorite!
For the herbs I use mint, lemon balm, a little rosemary, thyme - very tasty is lemon thyme, basil, oregano and pretty much everything that can be found in the garden. You should use very little of very intense and tart herbs like rosemary or sage.
Ingredients for the herbal lemonade
- 1/2 liter apple juice
- 1/2 lemon
- 1 handful of mixed herbs
Here's how:
- Put the herbs in a pot with the lemon juice and apple juice and bring to a boil
- Infuse for 30 minutes
- Take out the herbs, strain and let cool down
- The glasses are filled with 1/4 herbal lemonade
- Infuse with mineral water
Elderflower lemonade make yourself
If you've been busy in May/June and grabbed some tasty elderflowers, you can also make a delicious lemonade from them.
For elderflower lemonade, simply take a sip of homemade elderberry syrup, refine it with fresh lemon, mint and pour mineral water.
How to make elderflower syrup with birch sugar!
Make lemonade yourself with cucumber and lemon
If you're not a fan of fruit or don't have any on hand, you can also use cucumbers. They bring a pleasant, subtle and at the same time cooling taste to the DIY lemonade.
If you want to make your own cucumber lemonade, you should buy an organic cucumber. Then it does not have to be peeled. This looks visually just great. :)
What you need for the cucumber lime limo
- 1/2 cucumber
- 2 limes
- 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon honey
Here's how:
- Halve the lemon and squeeze it together with a lime. Mix in the honey and let the whole thing stand for 10 minutes
- Cut the cucumber small
- Cut half of the lemon and the other lime into small wedges.
- Pour with cold mineral water and put your soda in the fridge to infuse
Make strawberry rhubarb lemonade yourself
Homemade lemonade with strawberries and rhubarb tastes super fruity. Here, too, you can do without sugar.
The color is simply unbeatable. Thanks to the rhubarb, it tastes a little sour. Really pleasantly refreshing.
Ingredients for the rhubarb strawberry lemonade
- 1 handful strawberries
- 2 stalks rhubarb
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- Fresh mint
- A pinch Cinnamon*
Here's how:
- Cut the rhubarb into small pieces and boil with 250 ml of water. Leave to infuse for 10 minutes and then cool down
- Meanwhile: Clean and mash the strawberries. Add the lime juice to the strawberries. Stir well
- Divide the strawberry pulp among the glasses with the rhubarb water and make it sparkle with ice-cold mineral water
Tip: If you love strawberries, you should also try this DIY strawberry syrup test!
Which water makes the best soda?
If you want to make lemonade yourself, you will definitely need ice-cold sparkling water. The more sparkling water it contains, the more refreshing it tastes. If you like, you can of course also use still water or Soda* use. The important thing is always to use the right temperature.
Therefore, you can otherwise bring the drinks to the desired temperature additionally with ice cubes.
On very hot summer days, it is worth putting the pitcher or glass in the refrigerator before filling. This way, the drinks stay cool even longer later on. Especially on hot summer days, the drinks are otherwise quickly warmed up by the high temperatures of the glasses.
Our conclusion
Make lemonade yourself is not complicated. But very healthy! Basically, there are many other recipes to make lemonade quickly yourself. Just try different herbs and fruits.
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