Category: Anti-Inflammatory Recipes

Fresh peach healthy drink ideas are a great way to celebrate summer like the Peach Sunrise drink recipe below.

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And get special sunrise effects when you add water that brightens the day. Looks like a summer glow or sunrise effect. 🌅

Peach juice drinks are great summertime-vibe drinks as peaches are traditionally summer fruits. They’re bright, juicy, and high in both Vitamin A and C antioxidants.

You can also make one other summertime fresh peach healthy drink: old-fashioned porch peach sun tea…  that’s a great way to celebrate a summer break! ☀️

But before that… I have a peach drink that’s surprisingly good: peach cold brew coffee. 🍑

…You may find that an odd sounding pairing, but give it a try and tell me if isn’t da-bomb! 

All you do is add 1 tablespoon peach juice (squeezed from fresh peaches) to 1/2 cup of coffee. This will let the sweet peach flavor punch through the bitter coffee and produce a mellow fine semi-sweet coffee.

You can also add milk of choice to smooth and enhance the flavor. And you can pair with a healthy gluten-free peach cobbler.

This is one of my natural flavored summertime sipping coffees. Another is watermelon coffee that I love also with easy to make organic cold brew.

Then with coffee and/or peaches, you can add cinnamon too.

And speaking of cinnamon… c’mon, if you want to make your peachy drink taste like a peach pie without the fat calories, you can also do that. And drink your few calories with more fresh peach healthy drink ideas below.

Or you can pair your drink with an actual peach pie  or peach dessert 🥧 like an open faced galette.

Either way, cinnamon is an Ayurvedic balancing spice for Vata that’s calming and sweet. That’s what I’m talkin’ about!

There are two common types of cinnamon in stores I see: Cassia and Ceylon.

For this drink, you’ll want to use the Cassia cinnamon that’s most cinnamon spice abundant on shelves.

 

 

 

 

The Vietnamese cinnamon is also Cassia.

I think Cassia types are the tastier cinnamon version that is great for baking.

Ceylon is the anti-inflammatory one good to add to daily drinks like tea or coffee.

Both or either work for special drinks like the ones here and Cassia cinnamon is added to make this taste like an old fashioned apple pie

The key note is don’t be shy with the cinnamon. Think dollop, not dust.

To get the peach juice (for your fresh peach healthy drink): it’s easy to make with a blender when peaches are ripe and super soft.

That usually takes time (or some days) from when you buy your peaches from the market that’s intentionally set at colder temps.

And that can be a good thing…

For a later date future juice you want to make, you can ripen peaches in a time controlled environment.

How?

Two ways:

Either place your peaches in your fridge fruit (or crisper) drawer that’s lower humidity than other parts of the fridge, where fruit will ripen faster and stay fresh.

You can preserve your peaches there for weeks.

When you’re ready to make your fresh peach juice drink, it will already be ready to serve cold because the peaches are cold.

Quicker Peach Ripening Method:

…Or if you keep peaches out at room temperature in a fruit bowl, they’ll ripen even faster if you’re ready to make your drink.

At room temps, peaches are sensitive and can go from ripe-to-rot pretty quickly.

…Maybe that’s where the saying “bruise like a peach” comes from. 😊

And when you get past ripening, you can make your fresh peach healthy drink ideas.

You can also turn your juice into a refreshing sweet peach-ade with a little lemon juice or make a sweet tea.

Old Fashioned Summer Porch Tea from Fresh Peach Juice

You can take a large glass jar and brew old-fashioned summer tea that’s super easy to make. I’m pretty sure that comes from my adult southern roots living in the Carolinas. 😉

You would basically pour fresh water into a glass jar that has a lid. Then set the tea bags in the jar, using about 4 tea bags for a  6-cup or 3-pint jar.

A classic brisk tea like Lipton gives a super crisp or brisk tea taste.

The bags conveniently have strings, so you can easily tie the bag strings together and hang the labels over the top opening and then secure the lid.

Then set the jar outdoors on a patio that gets sun for at least part of the day. You don’t have to boil water.

And like magic 🪄, you have sun tea in about a day or two. You can leave outside longer for an even more raw, brisk tea taste.

When it’s done, refrigerate or add ice cubes and enjoy!

And finally, with peaches you can use also add fresh diced peaches  into your drink or daytime Sangria mocktail for some zhugh and sunny hues.

…How fun in the sun, right? 

And if you’re peach inspired and don’t want to stop there (or still have extra peaches you don’t know what to do with), you can make or pair with a peach profiterole dessert that could take the summer peach vibes to a whole ‘nother (baking) level! 🍑

Along with a healthy transition or back-to-school whole wheat peach cobbler that fills.

I’d love to know your fave peachy ways that maybe turn your peachy days!