Spiked Apple Cider - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 8 cups apple juice
- 1 orange, thinly sliced (with rind intact)
- 1 Tablespoon nutmeg
- 1 Tablespoon allspice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups rum
- 1 large red apple
- 8 whole cloves
- 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 cinnamon sticks
Instructions
- Combine the apple juice, orange slices, nutmeg, allspice, vanilla extract and rum in a large pot set over medium heat.
- Pierce the cloves into the apple. Add the apple to the pot along with brown sugar.
- Let simmer until heated throughout. Ten minutes before serving, add the cinnamon sticks.
- Strain the spiked cider into cups and serve.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon.
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).
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