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Fresh Peach Juice Healthy Drink Ideas

Fresh peach juice is a great cold summertime drink you can make with a summer glow or sunrise effect. 🌅 And if you want to make your drink taste like a peach pie without the fat calories, you can also do that with the steps below…

When you add enough cinnamon, you will get a delicious sweetness pairing that tastes like a peach pie or dessert. 🥧

peach galette to go with fresh peach juice.
A whole wheat peach galette is a whole way to get your peach-fill. 🍑

But you can also keep it cool (and the hot oven off!) with an easy fresh cold peach juice drink.

Just add cinnamon that’s 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: Cassia and Ceylon.

For this drink, you’ll want to use the Cassia cinnamon that’s the common cinnamon spice you find in most grocery store spice aisles.

Even the easy to find Vietnamese cinnamon is more like the Cassia type.

It’s the tastier cinnamon version that is great for baking with. Ceylon is the more anti-inflammatory one good to add to drinks like tea or coffee.

And with Cassia cinnamon, this flavor paired drink will transform and turn into a peach pie… and maybe remind you a bit of old fashioned apple pie from the enhanced heavy sprinkle of cinnamon spice… 🥧 You’ll want to mix in a dollop and not a dust.

For the peach juice part: fresh peach juice is easy to make with a blender and when peaches are ripe and super soft. That usually takes time from when you buy from the market.

And that can be a good thing

For a later date juice (or delay in making the juice), you can ripen in a controlled environment…

Put 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 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 as they go from ripe to rot pretty quickly.

This way, you’ll chill your drink after making it.

Either ripening way works. It’s 6-of-one half-dozen the other as we used to say in catering. The mantra is the same and your preference liking.

…Make it slow or fast based on a calendar is the question.

Either way when you start the home fresh peach juice making process, a fresh peach drink can be on your menu as a next day chilled morning beverage instead of mango or orange juice

That’s good for Vata variety.

And with peaches, you can also get a special sunrise effect when you add water that brightens the day. 🌅

A morning sunrise fresh peach juice drink.
A morning sunrise fresh peach juice drink.🌅

The simple steps are below 🍑

You can turn your juice into a refreshing sweet peach-ade with a little lemon juice instead of a tart lemonade.

Peach is an abundant seasonal summertime fruit favorite and staple. It’s bright, juicy, and high in Vitamin A and C antioxidants.

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

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 a peach profiterole that could take the summer peach vibes to a whole ‘nother (baking) level! 🍑

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Fresh Peach Juice Sunrise

Course beverage
Cuisine American
Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets

Equipment

  • blender

Ingredients

  • ½ cup diced peaches
  • ½ cup water
  • Cassia cinnamon spice to taste

Instructions

  • Blend softened ripe peaches leaving about 1/3" or 1 cm to top of glass. You can add a little water if you prefer less concentrated juice. For peach pie drink: blend in cinnamon spice to taste.
  • For the sunrise effect, add fresh cold water to fill up to the top of the glass. Bottoms up!
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