Hot Mulled Cider - PCOS-Friendly Recipe
Nutrition per Serving
Ingredients
- 4 cups apple cider
- 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
- 10 black peppercorns
- 6 whole cloves
- 5 whole white cardamom pods, crushed
- 4 star anise
- 3 (1/4-inch) thick lemon slices
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 1 (1/2-inch) piece peeled fresh ginger, thinly sliced
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan over medium heat; bring to a simmer. Cook for 30 minutes. Strain cider mixture through a fine sieve over a bowl, and discard solids. Serve cider hot.
PCOS-Friendly Foods in This Recipe
This recipe contains the following foods that may benefit PCOS management: Cinnamon, Lemon.
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). Lemons ca...
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