Low Calorie Watermelon Agua Fresca Recipe

This low calorie watermelon Agua Fresca recipe, also known as a Mexican Fresca drink, is refreshing and delicious. And thanks to our low calorie trick, half the calories of traditional Fresca drinks.

Aguas frescas are refreshing Mexican juice drinks made from different fruits. One of the most popular Agua frescos flavors is watermelon lime Agua Fresca.

We were able to make this watermelon segue Fresca recipe .low in calories, thanks to one of our favorite zero calorie, all-natural sweeteners.

Plus, we uses a suer sweet fruit, watermelon. This way we didn’t have to add too much sweetener. We’ve supplied you with more low calorie tricks below…

This low calorie watermelon Fresca recipe is just 48 calories!

Find 2 low calorie tricks below….

Low Calorie Watermelon Agua Fresca Recipe

This low calorie Mexican juice drink uses our low calorie tricks to help you sweeten, and make a wonderful true lime watermelon Agua Fresca without all the calories.

These Mexican drinks with fruit come in a number of different flavors, and our low calorie tricks will work with all flavors. So that you can make your favorite Agua Fresca flavors healthier.

This article will supply you with everything you need to make low calorie watermelon Agua Fresca drinks.

And to make these healthy watermelon drinks 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:

• Ingredients in Agua Frescas (shopping list!)
• How to Make Agua Fresca Recipes
• Watermelon Agua Fresca Drink Recipe (recipe card!)
• Nutrition and Calories Agua Fresca Watermelon

Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.

Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin our Watermelon Mexican Fruit drink recipe to Pintrest so it’s safely stored for you.

Up next, a shopping list for an Agua Fresca Mexican drink with fruit…

Ingredients in Agua Frescas

These low calorie, Mexican juices are fresh and delicious. And best of all packed with water and naturally sweet fruit. Think of a fruit infused water, that has an extra kick of sweetness.

Low Calorie Trick #1: Use an all-natural zero calorie sweetener in place of sugar or honey. This will help you cut calories without adding chemicals to your drink. But just with all “zero calorie sweeteners” don’t overdo it. When you have LOTS of sweets (even zero calorie sweets) your body will start craving more carbs and sweets.

Special Tip: You can find measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many Mexican fruit drinks you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you!

Shopping list for Aguas Frescas Mexicanas:

• Watermelon
• Lime
• Zero calorie all natural sweetener

Question: What is a Fresca Drink?

Answer: A Fresca, also known as an Agua Fresca is an non-alcoholic drink made of fruit blended with water. These popular Mexican drinks with fruit often also have ingredients like cereals, flowers, or seeds blended into the beverage.

In the next section you will learn how to make Agua frescos, and find another low calorie tip for adding sweetness without adding sugar!

Up next, how to make Agua Fresca Mexican Flavored Water…

How to Make Agua Fresca Recipes

This popular Mexican water drink is refreshing and delicious. You can cut and freeze the watermelon cubes to have them available all summer long. Plus this can help you save calories (check out the low calorie trick below!)

Low Calorie Trick #2: If you buy a watermelon and it’s not super sweet, cut it into cubes and freeze it. Freezing watermelon naturally brings out it’s sweetness!

Special Tip: You can find these directions, plus the ingredients, measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!

How to Make Agua Fresca Watermelon Drinks:

1. Add the watermelon, lime juice, all natural sweetener and 1 cup of the water in a blender. Blend until smooth.
2. Strain the mixture into a pitcher and discard solids.
3. Add the remaining water to the pitcher and stir to combine. Chill until ready to serve, at least 12 hour.
4. Serve over ice, with a lime or lemon wedge (optional).

You can booze up these low calorie watermelon Agua Fresca by adding a shot of silver tequila, or vodka to each serving.

This watermelon lime Agua Fresca drinks are often served in a huge 5 gallon jug. But we like to make them a bit fancier and chill them in the fridge until ready to serve. You choose your method, either way this drink is delicious!

Up next, a sharable recipe card for Watermelon Aguas Frescas…

Watermelon Agua Fresca Drink Recipe

This low calorie watermelon Agua Fresca recipe is easy and delicious, and thanks to our low calorie tricks, it’s also healthy and low sugar.

This Mexican Fresca Drink is refreshing and delicious. If you want to “booze” it up, add a shot of silver tequila or vodka to each serving. It makes a great summer beverage.

Up next, nutrition and calories in agua frescas…

Nutrition and Calories Agua Fresca Watermelon

Most agua fresca recipes call for lots of sugar… but we cut the sugar and use an all natural sweetener instead.

Plus, if you found “Low Calorie Trick #2” you already know how to make this Fresca drink even sweeter without adding anything to the recipe! (see above!!)

The nutrition below is based off 1 serving (1 cup) of the Watermelon Aguas Frescas above.

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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