Fruit tea, a concentrate of vitality

While fruit tea is a fragrant infusion with a delicate taste, it is also full of health benefits. Let's zoom in on these fruity infusions!

Fruit teas: a concentrate of pleasure and benefits

Need a drink with a good fruit taste, flavors that stimulate the taste buds, and which, moreover, is good for your health?
Fruit infusion meets these expectations. Not only does it allow you to hydrate throughout the day (perfect for people who have trouble drinking water), but it also provides the properties of the fruits or plants that we infuse.
Even better, it's possible to vary the flavors while adding up the benefits. For example, hibiscus and raspberry go very well together, as does apple (a real delight!).
And why not try combining them with lemon, orange, or even peach? Or with honey, verbena, lavender to recall Provence?
Hundreds of recipes are available to you and allow you to give free rein to your imagination.

Benefits for each fruit

If you want to benefit from the virtues of each plant, don't hesitate to research to know the good associations and properties of each. For this, the advice of a herbalist is highly recommended. Only they will truly be able to guide you and give you the right dosage. You can find herbalists in pharmacies, but also online if needed.
To help you, let's take a look at the properties of the most common fruits. This list is of course not exhaustive, but it gives you an overview of all you can gain from consuming fruits in infusion.

Strawberry

The quintessential summer fruit, it contains fiber, numerous antioxidants, vitamin C and B9, ideal for pregnant women. While it pairs very well with basil, mint and fennel give it even more character

Raspberry

It is also very rich in antioxidants and vitamin C, and helps regulate contractions and make childbirth easier. In teas with its leaves and/or fruit, it can be combined with mint and hibiscus or apple.

Cherry

The cherry season is very short, take advantage of it to collect their stems and drink delicious infusions with a sweet taste. It has many benefits: anti-inflammatory, diuretic, it is also good for digestion and sleep.

How to prepare a fruit tea?

Traditionally, we use leaves, flowers, and stems that can be dried to make fruity drinks, including infusions. However, we can accentuate the flavors by adding pieces.
You can find herbal teas for purchase at a reasonable price, in bags or in bulk. If you want to benefit the most from their properties, it's better to turn to organic products, as conventional products may contain pesticides.
Red fruit is quite fragile and quickly loses its benefits. So, if you want to make an infusion with its flowers or any other parts, do it quickly, or freeze and/or dry what you need for your recipes.

Can we drink as much herbal tea as we want?

A cup of herbal tea after eating, another in the middle of the morning, another cup for a snack...
There are plenty of opportunities to drink an infusion. Be careful though. While a fruit has fewer active ingredients than a plant (fennel for example), its other parts (seeds, roots that we use) are more powerful. So, be careful not to exceed three cups per day.
Indeed, some plants, consumed excessively, can be harmful. They are even sometimes not recommended for children and pregnant women, due to their action on the body or on the fetus. The trick would be to vary to avoid too high a concentration of an active ingredient.

Tea recipes for a fruity note in your day

We should all have in our kitchen what it takes to make a good red fruit infusion. Invigorating, these foods are also packed with antioxidants that we will find in our little tea bags, or better yet, in our homemade infusion.

There are a multitude of recipes. You can mix red fruits with herbs, but also yellow fruits, depending on what's available. The key is to know how to vary the pleasures, to find the right combinations. To help you, you can take inspiration from what's done commercially. So let's all get in the kitchen with these few ideas to inspire you.

Strawberry tea

For a cold infusion, take about ten cut strawberries and a few basil leaves. Let it infuse overnight in water. You can replace the basil with mint leaves.
More classic, the strawberry stem tea. Put stems in a jar, pack them well, then add simmering water. Let it infuse for 24 hours in the refrigerator and enjoy.

Cherry tea

Or, more precisely, cherry stem tea (preferably organic). Nothing is wasted in cooking! This recipe is very simple: you'll need two tablespoons of cherry stems and 20 cl of simmering water, then let it infuse. For a fresh note, you can add mint here too. Cherry is diuretic and helps keep the figure.

Raspberry tea

Organic raspberry leaf infusion pairs very well with hibiscus, as well as ginger (the latter calms nausea). This makes it a flavorful infusion that many women appreciate. And it's also a very easy recipe, as you just need to let it infuse.

Citrus infusion

Lemon tea is one of the most consumed beverages. In summer, it refreshes, in winter, it helps to fight against fatigue and viruses. You can find it in tea bags, but you can easily make it yourself, enhanced with honey or ginger.
For this, take an organic lemon per person (or per cup), bring water to a simmer, add the zest with the juice, let it infuse for five minutes and enjoy.
Let's stay with citrus fruits and talk about orange blossom infusion, which is as delicious as it is relaxing. Ideal when you want to sleep well, its delicate taste will delight your taste buds.
The recipe for orange infusion alone, on the other hand, is the same as above. With spices, it will fill your entire kitchen with a pleasant fragrance. With ginger, vanilla, cinnamon... You'll make it the official Christmas drink.

Red fruit tea

For pleasure and taste, we can mix flavors and red fruits in the same infusion. We can find tea bags that have the same principle, namely varying recipes to benefit from the properties and complementarities of each plant.

Cranberry tea

Cranberry tea is an invigorating drink, with a tangy note, that helps with the proper functioning of your urinary system. For more effectiveness, combine it with cherry stems. You can also find ready-made products in pharmacies or supermarkets, specifically to combat this type of issue. Here again, prefer an organic product.