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Friday, September 12, 2008

Diabetes: Cinnamon Ice Tea

Cold cinnamon tea can be made easily in your refrigerator. The benefits are that cinnamon helps lower blood sugar.

Use about a 2 1/2 quart (about 2 liter) refrigerator juice container. Put about 2 teaspoons of powdered cinnamon in the bottom. Add 6 tea bags of your preferred tea. I mix black tea and green tea when I do this.

Fill the container with very hot tap water. Put the container into the refrigerator and let it cool to the refrigerator temperature. Probably takes about 4-5 hours to cool.

Pour yourself some good tasting tea and add artificial sweetener. The beneficial compounds of the cinnamon are water soluble; the non-beneficial compounds are oil soluble.

Also, if you want, you can add about 1/2 teaspoon of powdered cloves to the brew at the beginning.