Black Pepper Free Strawberry Lime Agua Fresca

Fresh strawberries and bright lime juice are all the flavor this drink needs — no spice rack required. That makes it a genuinely easy win for anyone navigating a black pepper sensitivity, since so many packaged beverages and flavored drinks sneak in spice blends or "natural flavors" that can be hard to verify. Here, every ingredient is straightforward and easy to check: ripe strawberries, cold water, citrusy lime juice, a touch of maple syrup, and a pinch of salt. Blending everything smooth and then straining it through a fine-mesh sieve gives you that gorgeous, silky texture you'd find at a good taqueria — no gritty bits, just pure fruit flavor. The maple syrup adds a gentle, rounded sweetness that plays beautifully against the tartness of the lime, and you can dial both up or down to suit your taste. Poured over a glass full of ice with a lime slice on the rim, it looks as good as it tastes. This is the kind of refreshing, crowd-pleasing drink that disappears fast on a warm afternoon.

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