Artificial Food Coloring Free Kiwi Lime Agua Fresca
This vibrant agua fresca is everything a warm-weather drink should be — cool, refreshing, and bursting with the tropical tang of fresh kiwi and bright lime. The color in the glass is a gorgeous natural green, which means you're getting that visual wow factor entirely from real fruit, no dyes or artificial additives needed. Store-bought flavored drinks and mixes are notorious for sneaking in synthetic colorings, so blending this up at home puts you fully in control of what's going into your glass. The process is straightforward: blend, strain, sweeten with maple syrup, and chill — nothing mysterious in the ingredient list. A touch of salt rounds out the flavors in a way that makes the sweetness and citrus really pop. It's the kind of drink that looks fancy enough to serve at a backyard gathering but takes almost no effort to pull together.
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4 servings
- 8 medium kiwis (about 700 g), peeled and roughly chopped
- 3 cups cold water
- 3 tbsp fresh lime juice (from about 2 limes)
- 3 tbsp maple syrup, or more to taste
- ⅛ tsp fine salt
For serving
- ice, for serving
- lime slices or kiwi rounds, for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- 1
Add the chopped kiwi and cold water to a blender. Blend on high until completely smooth, about 45 seconds.
- 2
Set a fine-mesh strainer over a large pitcher. Pour the blended kiwi mixture through the strainer in batches, pressing gently on the solids with a spoon to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard the solids.
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