In our leisure time, there will be a variety of milk tea shops along the street, and honey grapefruit tea is a product that almost every milk tea shop will launch. A cup costs more than a dozen dollars. Honey grapefruit tea not only tastes sweet, can quickly relieve the heat, but also has a good health care effect on our body, not only can supplement the nutrients needed by the body, but also can achieve the role of helping digestion, beauty and beauty. Today I will talk about honey grapefruit tea with you.
First of all, the nutrients contained in grapefruit itself are very rich, and the content of calcium and vitamins far exceeds that of many fruits and vegetables. Grapefruit contains three times more vitamin C than lemons and oranges, and more than ten times more calcium than fruits such as apples, bananas, and pears. In addition, it can also achieve the effect of clearing heat and de-ignition, as well as dissolving phlegm and cough.
In addition, Chinese medicine says that grapefruit has a sour, cold and non-toxic taste. It has various functions such as qi, digestion, sputum removal, detoxification, analgesia and so on. Coupled with honey, it neutralizes the bitter taste of grapefruit, making grapefruit tea taste good. Therefore, grapefruit honey tea is cold. Here special attention should not be paid to people with cold and spleen deficiency should not eat more, and those with cold should not drink on an empty stomach.
Having said all the benefits and precautions, let's sort out how to make honey grapefruit tea at home. The preliminary preparation work can be summarized into the following steps. Rub the grapefruit peel twice with salt, remove a quarter or so and cut into thin strips (the white part is not, it will be very bitter). Then peel off all the grapefruit meat and set aside. The chopped grapefruit peels are soaked in salted water for an hour.
Here you can put the pickled grapefruit peel in a small pot, add the right amount of water, cook for five minutes, preferably twice, to remove the bitterness. Then put the grapefruit peel, grapefruit meat and rock sugar together into a clean pot, and then add a small bowl of water, after boiling on high heat, simmer for about an hour, add a little lemon juice in the middle, the process of cooking needs to be stirred frequently until viscous, grapefruit skin is almost bright, add an appropriate amount of honey after cooling, mix well, put into a sealed jar to save (when you want to drink, brew with warm water)