Orange-Spiced Tea - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 4 cloves
- 2 sticks cinnamon
- 1/2 an orange worth orange peel, long strips of peel made from a vegetable peeler
- 1/2 an orange worth orange juice
- 4 tea bags, (black tea)
- 1/4 cup honey
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, add 4 cups water, the cloves and cinnamon sticks. Bring to a boil, and then remove from the heat. Add the orange peels, orange juice and tea bags, and cover. Allow to steep for 5 to 10 minutes. Stir in the honey. Pour into mugs and serve.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Honey.
Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060). Honey, of...
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