BHA & BHT Free Cranberry Orange Agua Fresca

Tart cranberries, bright orange juice, and a squeeze of lime come together in this refreshing agua fresca that tastes like something you'd pay too much for at a fancy café. It's the kind of drink that looks stunning in a pitcher — especially with a few orange slices floating on top — but comes together with almost no effort. For anyone navigating preservative-free eating, store-bought juices and flavored drinks are often a minefield of additives, but every ingredient here is whole and straightforward: fresh fruit, maple syrup, lime, and water. The maple syrup pulls double duty as a natural sweetener that you can dial up or down to match your taste, and the fine-mesh straining step gives you a silky-smooth sip with none of the pulpy texture. Blending everything together before straining means you get maximum flavor extraction from the cranberries without any fuss. Serve it ice-cold straight from the fridge, and it's genuinely hard to believe something this vibrant and clean-tasting only took a few minutes to make.

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