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The Healthiest Beverage

A recipe for making the healthiest beverage even healthier

November 11, 2010 |
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The Healthiest Beverage, 4.0 out of 5 based on 4 ratings

Sources Cited

Clement Y. Can green tea do that? A literature review of the clinical evidence. Prev Med. 2009 Aug-Sep;49(2-3):83-7.

Acknowledgements

Image thanks to Emily Barney

Transcript

The only other situation where you really find major nutrition without calories is with spices—cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger—also known as chai tea! Has all the tea of tea, but as a bonus also contains the single most antioxidant packed substances on the planet, like cloves and cinnamon
If you want you can add some unsweetened soy milk, some erythritol to sweeten it, a spoonful of cocoa powder to make it even more nutritious and you have a hot velvety sweet spicy chocolate drink. Hardly any calories and can have like 3 days worth of antioxidants per glass. It’s something I drink it, every day.

To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by veganmontreal.

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Dr. Michael Greger

Doctor's Note

Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the prequel "Nutrition Without Calories" video. Also, there are 1,449 other subjects covered in the rest of my videos--please feel free to explore them as well!

For some context, please check out my associated blog post: Countering Dietary Pollutants & Pesticides

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/mgreger/ Michael Greger M.D.

    Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I’d be happy to try to answer them. And check out the prequel “Nutrition Without Calories” video. Also, there are 1,449 other subjects covered in the rest of my videos–please feel free to explore them as well!

    • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/jmerrikin/ jmerrikin

      Dr. Greger,

      Having watched ALL of your videos on soy and soymilk, what can you tell the group about how pasteurization affects the phytonutrient and phytoestrogen density in soymilk?

      Also, is there any difference between using organic soy and GMO soy regarding all the potential benefits o consuming soy?

      Thanks so much! Love your work!

      • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/drdons/ DrDons

        Of course organic is always best. As regards GMO products I would apply the precautionary principle and avoid entirely. A good review was done in Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 49:164-175(2009) which discusses the toxicity of GMO products on various organs including liver, kidney, pancreas, and reproductive systems. Given the complexity of the issue I imagine we will never know for sure. Best approach given that situation in my opinion is to not mess with “Mother Nature”. The best we can do is insist that we have accurate labeling laws so we can vote with our purchases. Given many corporations desires to avoid accurate labeling in the US that is going to be hard.

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/EricNeeds/ Eric Needs

    Do you think that the soy milk blocks the phytonutrients effect at all?

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/MaryZdrojewski/ Mary Zdrojewski

    Do you have a set recipe you use for your drink, or do you just throw things together? I’d like to try making chai but I’m just not sure how. (I can’t use commercial chai because I’m allergic to cloves.)

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/toxins/ Toxins

    Which chai tea brand do you use? there are so many out there and I want to get the healthiest one

    • BPCveg

      I make my own Chai masala tea.  Here is a recipe:

      Step 1: gently roast the following until pleasant frangrance appears:

      1 cup fennel seeds2 Tbsp green cardomom pod seeds1 Tbsp big black cardomom pod seeds1/2 Tbsp black peppercorns1 Tbsp cloves4 Tbsp cinnamon bark (flat variety)1 Tbsp chopped almond

      Step 2: grind roasted spices to powder form

      Step 3: Store ground mixture in an airtight container

      Step 4: for each cup of tea use 1/4 tsp of the chai mix and add minced ginger and green tea bag (optionally).

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/becochic/ becochic

    I also am wondering about soy blocking the phytonutrients. Didn’t you say in the last post that it did?

    Also, tea is a diuretic, so you’d still need water, no?

    • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/toxins/ Toxins

      Hello becochic!
      I believe I can answer your question. In a petri dish, it seemed that soymilk did in fact bind up the phytonutrients of tea making it nutritionally close to plain water. It is uncertain whether berries and cacao and for that matter, other phytonutrient dense meals will be blocked by soymilk. I believe the main concern is with tea and soy milk but to be safe I would avoid it with nutrient dense meals. Almond milk would be a safer choice of a milk if you plan to drink it with the tea. http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/soymilk-suppression/ Do note that dairy blocked the phytonutrients in all 3 cases, tea, berries and cacao. http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/nutrient-blocking-effects-of-dairy/

  • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/yummy/ yummy

    To make your morning oatmeal even “yummier”, use chai tea instead of water when making it.

    • http://nutritionfacts.org/members/mgreger/ Michael Greger M.D.

      What a fantastic idea! I’m always trying to think of ways to sneak more of those antioxidant-packed spices into my daily diet (that was the inspiration for my Healthy Pumpkin Pie recipe). If anyone else has creative (or at least palatable! :) ways to sneak cloves into one’s diet please do share. Like my new Pink Juice with Green Foam video, this site is all about trying to translate these new findings into practical ways to incorporate the best available science on nutrition into our day-to-day lives.

      • Guest

        My daily super-nutrient breakfast (all organic, measurements are aprox.):  - 1/4 cup Rolled Oats - 1 pinch Clove powder - 1 tsp Cinnamon powder- 1 tsp Green Macha Tea powder- 1 Tbsp Coco powder (Unsweetened, Fair Trade)- 2 Tbsp Flax (Organic)- 1/8 cup Blue Berries (wild frozen or fresh)- 1/8 cup Toasted Walnut pieces- 1/8 cup Dried Cranberries- 1/8 cup Dried Currents- 1 Amla (Indian Goodberry – frozen / grated)- 1 Diced Kiwi- Unsweetened Almond MilkIt sounds like a lot, but it’s just one bowl & pretty quick to make (the dry ingredients can be put together in larger quantities ahead of time).I really look forward to getting out of bed in the morning for this! (It’s not as sweet as you might like, but you can adjust that.)I got the idea to create this by watching all the NutritionFacts.org videos and trying to incorporate all the best suggestions that I could. Additional suggestions are very welcome!I hope others might find this helpful.Cheers!-Mark

        • LiangXuan

          I will replace Flax Seeds with Chia Seeds

        • JamesKB

          Sweeten with date sugar :)

  • francesca

    Dear Dr. Greger,

    I was born with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (hypermobility type 3) and suffer a great deal with pain from the continually subluxing joints and muscular sprains caused by the weak connective tissue and, consequently overwhelming exhaustion after anything like normal activity. I’ve eaten a vegan diet from the age of 20 and am now 63. Could you advise me, please, on anything I can eat to strengthen my connective tissue (as far as dna will allow) and to reduce the pain. Because of IBS, which comes along with the EDS, I can’t digest beans without getting terrible pain. I can, however, eat tofu and processed soya products.

    Thank you very much for all of your work and being so generous in sharing it. It’s wonderful to have scientific medical information from a vegan doctor.

    with many thanks, Francesca.

  • http://www.facebook.com/teena.simon Teena Tibbetts Simon

    I’m wondering….which is best for say, coffee, tea or baking, molasses or erythritol? Thanks so much for any feed back.

  • Marty

    Love you Dr. Gregor! I am wondering if you have a caffeine free version of your Chai tea drink? I love to have it! Thanks

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1179767470 facebook-1179767470

    Dr. G, do you make your own CHAI? Or can you recomend a source for it?

  • Phum Viriyasiriwathana

    I want to know about health benefits of rice bran oil.

  • Amanda

    I have been enjoying your clips and have learnt so much from your factual presentations. This has bowled me to start drinking soy milk for the first time in forty years. My question is about what soy milk to get. I currently buy a soy milk which contains cane sugar which I really enjoy but am concerned that it has fewer benefits with the sugar. Even so, it would still be better than cows milk for me? Could I get your advice. Thanks

    • Toxins

      They do sell unsweetened soymilk and this would probably be the better choice. Soymilk will always beat out dairy though.

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