These Diabetic-Friendly Summer Drinks Will Be A Delight In This Hot & Humid Weather

Summers are here, and we all are sipping on cooling drinks like there is no tomorrow. Most popular summer drinks are energy drinks, which are ready-made packed juices or high sugary drinks at home. They for sure help us in beating the heat but are they healthy enough? Most importantly for those who are diabetic? No drink is made without sugar and in this situation, if it is difficult for you too to find a better alternative then you are right.

First, we need to understand if you are diabetic, why you can't have sweets or sugary drinks. Most people have this misconception that if they are diabetic it happened because of white sugar or sweet things they ate but that’s not true. In most cases, diabetes happens when a person has a sedentary lifestyle and does not take enough carbohydrates for a longer period.

Here are some healthy alternatives where you don't have to give up on taste and can enjoy the chilled drinks in summers. 

Home Made Ice Tea

This is one of the best drinks as the making process is super easy and ingredients are amazingly healthy. You can also customise it as per your taste. 

Use ingredients like Flavored green tea, honey, or rose petals, cesar to give it a nice touch.

How to make:

• Make your regular green tea.
• Add the boiled water into a jug.
• Add honey or maple syrup.
• Keep it in the fridge to cool down. 
• Add any flavour from any fruit you like.
• Add some ice and enjoy.

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Seasonal Fruit Juice

Nothing is better than eating or drinking seasonal fruits. Doesn't matter whether you are diabetic or not. You can always eat seasonal local fruits. Summer water-rich fruits are watermelon, litchi, mesabi, musk melon etc. No natural sugar is going to harm but definitely will help in fighting the bad toxins and flush them out from the body.

Sabja Seeds Cooler

Seeds are not only a healthier option but tastier too. Sabja seeds are one of the popular healthy ingredients in faunas or different types of shakes or ice creams. They are naturally cool in nature and you can get them easily from anywhere.

How to make:

• Take a teaspoon of the sabja seeds and put them in coconut water, or iced green tea.
• For sweetening, you can add some raw honey, or jaggery powder instead of artificial sweeteners.
• Add some ice cubes if you want it more chilled and enjoy.

Sattu Drink

Who is not aware of this most popular and older summer drink. Sattu is the powder made from roasted grams. A lot of dishes can be made from sattu powder. Sattu drink is one of the most popular concoctions. It is highly nutritious and diabetes-friendly.

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How to make:

• Add Sattu powder to some water.
• Add black salt to it.
• Add some onion if you like.
• Garnish it with some chopped coriander. It will give a nice flavour and coriander is a cooling herb in itself.
• You can also add some lemon to it for better taste.

Vegetable Juice

Vegetable juices might not be as tasty as other juices or shakes, but they are healthiest among all for sure. For diabetes patients, vegetables are must-have as they have a lot of fiber in it and it keeps the blood sugar level in control. Vegetable juices don't taste bad though but once you develop taste you will start enjoying them and will never miss one in your day.

If you are a beginner, you can start with vegetables like cucumber, spinach, tomato, and flavour it with 1 fruit to make them taste better and keep adding vegetables like karela and bottle gourd as they can be life-changing if one drinks them regularly.

Mamta Dagar is a popular nutritionist who often contributes diet tips to various media houses.

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