Cucumber Lime Smart Water Health Benefits, And How To Make It

Cucumber Lime Smart Water 

Quench your thirst with cucumber lime smart water and you will feel refreshed, cool and smart.

It is sugar-free, healthy, tastes better than pure water, and can be your regular plug for weight loss, blood pressure check, hydration, and skin health.

Cucumber and lime are too great fruit with a lot of nutrients that can help you remedy your deficiency. Cucumber contains some amounts of vitamin C, vitamin K, magnesium, potassium, manganese, protein, fiber, and calories.

Lime as a citrus fruit is also very rich in nutrients as it contains potassium, sodium, magnesium, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, iron, vitamin B6, and dietary fiber.

Cucumber and lime in water can make you enjoy drinking water with other soluble nutrients. The sliced cucumber and lime present in the water gives the water a refreshing taste.

How to Prepare the Cucumber Lime Smart Water

Ingredients 

• Two good-sized fresh cucumbers
• Half cup of lime juice from about 6-10 limes
• Two and half cup of water

Preparation 

Slice the cucumber and place it into an electric blender with enough water and puree until it is smooth.

Strain out the solid by placing a fine-mesh sieve over a bowl and pour the puree through the sieve and press with a spoon to enable complete extraction of all the liquid. Strain the lime juice also to remove the seeds and other particles.

Mix the lime juice and cucumber puree.

Pour into a glass and add some ice cubes to make it cool and refreshing

Then you can drink and feel cool for the time

You can also leave it in the refrigerator for about 3-4 hours as the case may be to make it cool

The flavor of this drink improves over time and hence you can decide to leave it for a day before taken it.

The Health Benefits of Cucumber Lime Smart water

It helps you stay hydrated

It is expected that we drink at least 7-8 glasses of water a day to stay hydrated but truly speaking chugging down plain tap water can get boring pretty quickly.

Water infused with cucumber and lime is pretty delicious and can help you easily makeup in taken the required daily dosage to stay hydrated.

Skin Health

Besides staying hydrated which is one key to beautiful skin, the presents of silica and antioxidants present in cucumber and lime can keep your skin clear and free from breakouts. Other nutrients such as vitamin B5 and vitamin K inherent in these fruits are essential for skin health.

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For Weight Loss Program

There are only about 45 calories which means that it won’t add many calories and hence better than sports drinks which makes it more appropriate in your weight loss program.

It Lowers Blood Pressure

It is a good source of potassium which helps eliminate excess sodium in your system which contributes to high blood pressure and thereby reducing it.

For Bone Health 

The presence of vitamin K in cucumber can help boost your bone health as it helps transport calcium to bones. Studies show that one unpeeled cucumber contains about 22% of your daily vitamin k recommended intake.

It Support Brain Health

This drink can help boost your brain health as cucumber contain a flavonol called fisetin which has been found to help boost brain power, minimize aging and prevent those prone to Alzheimer’s from developing learning deficit and memory loss.

It freshens your breath 

This drink can save you from the pity of having bad breath as taking it can make your breath nicer and can also help you to relieve gingivitis and tooth pain.

It is good for your liver

The presence of lime in it can help your liver function well by filtering toxins present in your body. The flavonoids in lemon help fight against liver damage that can be caused by toxins.

Cucumber Lime Smart Water Health Benefits, And How To Make It

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Raphael Okhueleigbe

Raphael Osas Okhueleigbe is a Blogger, Content creator, Agricultural Economist, Resource manager, and the founder of greener health.

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