Gut Friendly Pineapple Mint Lemonade

Total time25 min

Prep time10 min

Cook time5 min

4.7

(21)

This vibrant drink is a serious upgrade from anything you'd find in a bottle, layering fresh pineapple, bright lemon, and a fragrant honey-mint syrup into something that feels almost too pretty to drink. Every ingredient here is doing real work — pineapple brings natural enzymes, ginger and turmeric add their well-known soothing properties, and fresh lemon juice keeps things zingy and alive. The honey-mint syrup is a small but brilliant step: steeping the mint leaves in warm honey water coaxes out a depth of flavor that plain sugar just can't match. Blending and straining the pineapple rather than using store-bought juice means you get pure, clean flavor without additives or preservatives that can be rough on a sensitive stomach. Turmeric can be tricky to incorporate smoothly, but whisking it directly into the lemon-pineapple base before adding the syrup keeps everything evenly distributed and beautifully golden. Served over ice with a sprig of mint, this is the kind of drink that makes a regular afternoon feel like a little occasion.

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Ingredients

4 servings

For the honey-mint simple syrup

¼ cup honey
¼ cup water
½ cup fresh mint leaves, loosely packed

For the lemonade

2 cups fresh pineapple chunks
½ cup fresh lemon juice (from about 4 lemons)
¼ tsp ground turmeric
⅛ tsp ground ginger
2 cups cold water

For serving

ice, for serving
fresh mint sprigs, for serving (optional)
lemon slices, for serving (optional)

Instructions

1
Combine the honey and 1/4 cup water in a small saucepan over medium heat, stirring until the honey fully dissolves, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat, add the mint leaves, and let steep for 10 minutes until fragrant. Strain through a fine-mesh strainer into a small bowl or measuring cup, pressing the leaves to extract as much liquid as possible; discard the solids.
2
Blend the fresh pineapple chunks in a blender until smooth, then strain through the fine-mesh strainer into the pitcher, pressing firmly to extract all the juice; discard the pulp.

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