This Green Tea Detox Drink is just 8 calories, and helps burn fat and reduce bloat. Plus, you’ll find 5 yummy flavors to choose from!
I love this green tea weight loss tea because it’s crisp and refreshing, and perfect for sipping all day long. I make a big pitcher, and instead of soda, I enjoy this refreshing drink instead.
My green tea detox drinks are a great way to stay hydrated. I love this recipe because you can drink as much as you like (as long as you’re not sensitive to caffeine) and count this slimming detox tea as 1/2 of your daily water intake.
I’ve included links to my favorite green detox tea Yogi… But you can use your favorite green tea, just try to get organic as non-organic teas are covered in pesticides.
Why You’ll Love This Green Tea Detox Drink
- Fat Burning – these 5 green tea drinks naturally increase metabolism and burn fat!
- Low Sugar – at just 1.4g of sugar these yummy iced tea drinks are a great substitution for sodas!
- Counts as Daily Water Consumption – you can count these drinks as 1/2 of your daily water consumption!
- Just 8 Calories – at just 8 calories, you can have as must as you like!
- 5 Flavors – I just upgraded this recipe with 5 flavors to choose from, so you can change it up weekly (or daily).
This Green Tea Detox Drink is just 8 calories, and helps burn fat and reduce bloat.
Iced Detox Green Tea to Help with Weight Loss
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make green tea detox drinks at home. From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll find a healthy everyday detox tea, nutrition label and more in the sections below.
To make this weight loss detox drink easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections. Read through them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- What is Weight Loss Tea
- When Should you Drink Detox Tea?
- 10 Ingredients to Increase Metabolism and Burn Fat
- Green Detox Tea Ingredients (shopping list!)
- How to Make Homemade Detox Tea for Weight Loss
- Frequently Asked Questions
- 5 Green Tea Detox Drinks (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Detox with Tea Recipes
- More Detox Drink Recipes
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this detox with green tea to Pinterest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for our homemade detox drink for weight loss…
What is Weight Loss Tea
Weight loss tea is a fat burning drink filled with metabolism boosting ingredients. It helps you lose weight fast, and is a great alternative to sodas and artificially sweetened drinks.
By activating your metabolism, you’ll have more energy and your body will burn fat faster. And you can increase your metabolism with both exercise, and by ingesting the right foods. That’s where this green tea detox drink comes in.
Weight loss tea is a fat burning drink filled with metabolism boosting ingredients.
Fat burning ingredients for this homemade tea for weight loss include citrus, green tea. And I added in some bloat reducing ingredients like watermelon, mint and cucumber to help reduce tummy fat and bloat fast.
So you get both metabolism boosting qualities, as well as bloat reducing in these yummy homemade tea recipes.
When Should you Drink Detox Tea?
You can drink this fat burning tea anytime of the day. But the best time of the day to consume it is first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach.
Start your day right, have a glass of this detox tea first thing in the morning, before you put anything into your stomach.
I like to make a pitcher of homemade detox tea before bed, then when I wake up in the morning I have a glass of it before I put anything (even coffee!) into may stomach. Then I drink it throughout the day when I want a tasty treat.
10 Ingredients to Increase Metabolism and Burn Fat
I love to add fat burning and metabolism boosting ingredients to my diet! It’s a great way to passively boost weight loss. So you can be working on your weight loss goals while watching TV, or working at your desk.
These fat burning ingredients can be worked into your diet as snacks, or added to your drinks as I have in the green tea detox drinks below.
Fat Burning Ingredients:
- Limes
- Lemons
- Oranges
- Grapefruit
- Pineapple
- Strawberries
- Blueberries
- Raspberries
- Apples
- Green Tea
I’ve worked many of these ingredients into the detox teas below, and you can enjoy the berries and fruits as snacks to help further boost metabolism.
Green Detox Tea Ingredients
I specialize in detox tea weight loss recipes… after years of writing best selling weight loss cookbooks, I have made fat burning drinks like these on countless TV shows!
This iced detox tea is a great way to cast off the diet sodas or calorie filled juices, and drink something that’s both yummy and good for weight loss. If you’re looking for hot detox drinks, try this Hot Lemon Detox Drink Recipe instead.
Natural Detox Drink Recipe Ingredients:
- Water – naturally increases your metabolism! It also flushes toxins, reduces bloat, and reduces hunger!
- Green tea – boosts metabolism and encourages fat burning. It’s also a great appetite suppressant!
- Zero calorie all-natural sweetener – this all natural sweetener is a great way to sweeten your drinks without adding sugar or calories.
- Watermelon – reduces bloat and curbs hunger!
- Strawberries – packed with vitamin C, strawberries boost metabolism and encourage weight loss!
- Blueberries – the lowest sugar content berry, blueberries also burn fat and increase metabolism!
- Pineapple – packed with vitamin C, pineapple encourages fat burning and reduces sugar cravings!
- Cherries – naturally reduces swelling and acts as a natural pain reliever, plus they add sweetness and a lovely color to drinks!
- Limes – naturally boost metabolism and burns fat. If you love limes, add more to your drinks! Squeeze a wedge into each glass.
- Lemons – just like limes (but less tart) lemons bunt fat and increase metabolism!
- Oranges – the sweetest of the citrus fruits, oranges also boost metabolism without adding tartness to your drinks.
- Cucumber – naturally reduces bloat and inflammation, also mellows the flavors of tart citrus.
- Mint – naturally cools you down, reduces bloat and inflammation in the body.
Don’t worry, all of these ingredients are not in one drink, but spread across all 5 of the best weight loss drinks below.
Up next, how to make detox tea recipes…
How to Make Homemade Detox Tea for Weight Loss
You can easily lose weight with detox tea. Just make sure to follow the Lose Weight By Eating weight loss tips…
How to Lose Weight with Detox Tea:
- Drink detox tea before every meal
- Remove processed foods and chemical sweeteners from your diet
- Drink 1 gallon of water per day (detox tea can be 1/2 of that)
- Move your body more (add 1-2 hours of exercise to your diet per week)
How to Make Herb Detox Tea Cleanse Recipes:
- Cut off the tags of the tea bags (if they have them).
- In a large pot bring the water to a boil.
- Add the tea bags, remove cover and remove from heat. Allow to steep for 15 minutes.
- Remove the tea bags and add in the sweetener (if using), and remaining ingredients. Mix and allow to cool completely.
- Strain the fruit etc. out, and pour into a pitcher. Refrigerate until cold.
- Serve over ice.
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with ingredient measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card below!
Up next, I’ll answer all your questions – From when drink detox teas, to how long they will last in the fridge…
Frequently Asked Questions
Green tea is great for weight loss! It naturally increases metabolism and curbs appetite! Be sure to get an all-natural (organic) green tea as non organic is covered in pesticides and can negatively effect weight loss and general health.
The best time to drink green tea detox drinks is first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach. You can also drink them all day long in place of sodas and coffee, and they may count as 1/2 of your daily water intake (though some fresh water is ideal for weight loss).
These green tea detox drinks will last for 24 hours in the fridge. You can add leftovers to an ice cube tray and freeze. The next time you make iced green teas for weight loss, you can use the ice cubes and avoid watering down your iced tea!
Metabolism tea is a fat burning tea that naturally increases your metabolism. Typically a base of green tea, added fruits may include metabolism boosting ingredients like berries, citrus and even bloat reducing cucumber and mint.
The best tea for weight loss is organic green tea. Try adding in some fruits that boost weight loss (pineapple, citrus, berries) to increase the fat burning properties of green tea. Iced green tea is especially refreshing with these yummy fruits, and easy to drink more.
Green tea and water are the best drinks to boost weight loss. And you need water to make green tea… bonus! By adding in fat burning fruits and bloat reducing ingredients you can further boost metabolism as well.
Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best recipes for detox tea…
Iced Detox Green Tea to Help with Weight Loss
These green detox tea recipes are easy and yummy… and you can make it a sweet tea, or unsweetened.
I also made these fat burning teas to reduce bloat, while increasing metabolism and helping you lose weight easily. So drink up and enjoy all the wonderful benefits of these all-natural ingredients.
5 BEST Green Tea Detox Drinks
Ingredients
Watermelon Lime Detox Tea:
- 4 cups water
- 2 green tea bags
- ⅓ cup zero calorie all-natural sweetener optional
- 3 cups watermelon cubed
- 1 lime juiced
- 10 mint sprigs
Strawberry Lemon Detox Tea:
- 4 cups water
- 2 green tea bags
- ⅓ cup zero calorie all-natural sweetener optional
- 3 cups strawberries halved
- 1 lemon juiced
Blueberry Orange Detox Tea:
- 4 cups water
- 2 green tea bags
- ⅓ cup zero calorie all-natural sweetener optional
- 2 cups blueberries
- 2 oranges juiced
Cucumber Lime Detox Tea:
- 4 cups water
- 1 green tea bags
- ⅓ cup zero calorie all-natural sweetener optional
- 1 cucumber peeled and sliced
- 2 limes juiced
- 10 sprigs mint optional
Pineapple Cherry Detox Tea:
- 4 cups water
- 2 green tea bags
- ⅓ cup zero calorie all-natural sweetener optional
- 2 cups pineapple chunks
- 1 cup frozen cherries
Instructions
- Cut off the tags of the tea bags (if they have them).
- In a large pot bring the water to a boil.
- Add the tea bags, remove cover and remove from heat. Allow to steep for 15 minutes.
- Remove the tea bags and add in the sweetener (if using), and add in the fruit and herbs. Mix and allow to cool completely.
- Strain the fruit etc. out, and pour into a pitcher. Refrigerate until cold.
- Serve over ice.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition and Calories in Detox with Tea Recipes
The nutrition below is based off 1 serving (1 cup) of the first detox iced tea recipe above.
Please note… these calories and nutritional information is based off removing the fruit before drinking the detox tea. Which is why the calories are so low. If you ingest the fruit, the calories will increase.
Important Note: As a reminder, at Lose Weight By Eating it is our goal to make you healthier, all-natural versions of your favorite recipes… not all will be “diet worthy” depending on the diet you are on. But they will be healthier versions to help curb your cravings.
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