Nitrate & Nitrite Free Iced Hibiscus Tea (Agua de Jamaica)

This vibrant crimson drink is one of those recipes that looks stunning on a table and tastes even better than it looks. Dried hibiscus flowers steep with a cinnamon stick and sugar into a deeply colored, tart-sweet concentrate that gets diluted to the perfect refreshing strength. The whole thing is built from whole, recognizable ingredients — no packaged drink mixes, no preservatives, no additives you'd need to decode on a label. That matters a lot when you're avoiding nitrates and nitrites, which can sneak into flavored beverages and commercial syrups in ways that aren't always obvious. Here, you control every single thing that goes into the pitcher. A squeeze of lime over the finished glass brightens the floral tartness beautifully and makes it feel like something you'd order at a great restaurant. It's the kind of drink that disappears fast, so you might want to make a double batch.

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