This summer, ditch the alcohol, as we have the most delicious and nutritious summer healthy mocktails that will improve your digestion, skin tone, sexual health, and overall mental and emotional well-being. Our recipes for the best healthy mocktails have a combination of fizzy kombucha, fresh fruits, and herbs that are high in antioxidants, making for a nutritious summer drink. Honey serves as a natural sweetener in these refreshing summer drink ideas, eliminating the use of processed sugar. Here you may discover tasty alternatives to sangria, mojitos, margaritas, wine, and daiquiris—ideal for outdoor gatherings like picnics, pool parties, and BBQs!
Why make the switch to healthy mocktail recipes? You can still have a good time with a non-alcoholic drink. And the list of reasons to prefer them over their inebriated counterparts is growing. This includes situations when you should not use alcohol, such as during pregnancy, when trying to enhance your general health, when you are tired of waking up somewhat drowsy, or when you are taking a vacation from alcohol. Swap hangovers and groggy morning-afters with these healthy mocktails!
Best healthy mocktails
Negroni cocktail
You can make an alcohol-free Negroni by simply substituting sugar for the gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth that traditionally make up the famous drink. Nonalcoholic aperitivo and vermouth in bottles provide the bitterness. Additionally, we include a dash of flowery fizz from the tonic water and a touch of sweet grenadine to mimic the botanical flavour of gin. An iconic garnish for this cocktail, orange peel is easy to make: just thinly slice a fresh navel orange with a vegetable peeler. This is one of the best healthy mocktails if you are craving classic recipes!
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Tarragon Soda
Do this with any extra tarragon that ends up in your fridge. The aroma of anise, fennel, and greenish-black liquorice wafts through the air as you soak sprigs of it. It creates a lovely soda, is easy to prepare into a syrup, and stores nicely in the fridge. Now this is a unique and one of the healthiest mocktails you can have!
Non-Alcoholic Sangria
Sipping on this sangria mocktail in the middle of winter or the midst of summer will transport you to a tropical paradise. The reddish-hued secret ingredient that gives the cocktail its robust flavour? Herbal tea made from hibiscus flowers. The fruit perfectly balances the mocktail's sweetness, giving it a sangria-like taste without the added sugar. For more vitamin C and fibre, eat some apples and oranges. Fruits such as plums, peaches, hibiscus, and berry teas provide a refreshing summertime alternative. Add clementines, cranberries, and pomegranate to cran-apple or orange spice tea for a cosy winter twist. Need to add fruits to your diet? This healthy mocktail easily fills your quota for the day!
Alcohol-free Strawberry Daiquiri
This straightforward blender daiquiri demonstrates that alcohol isn't essential for an enjoyable experience. This healthy mocktail is perfect for when you want to celebrate a special occasion or use up the last of the season's berries. To make it more drinkable, sweet, and flavourful, you can substitute a splash of citrus soda for the rum.
Better-for-you Moscow Mule
This alcohol-free Moscow mule has all the wonderful tastes of the original—vodka, ginger beer, and lime juice—without the lingering effects of the night before. You still get the fizz and taste from kombucha, but it typically has less sugar than other mixers and is packed with gut-healthy microbes. As long as the alcohol content remains below 0.5% (and does not rise after bottling), kombucha is not considered an alcoholic beverage, even if it does contain trace quantities of alcohol from fermentation. For those attempting to abstain from alcohol, kombucha is probably not going to be a big issue since a glass of wine has about 12% alcohol. This is one of the best healthy mocktail drinks for people who want to retain classic cocktail taste!
Blood Orange Mocktail
This mocktail takes use of one of the most visually stunning winter citrus fruits—blood oranges—by using freshly squeezed juice. In addition to its delicious citrus flavour, this drink is beneficial for you because of the vitamin C found in blood oranges, which is vital for cell health, wound healing, and immune system function. It's also blended with vanilla, lime sparkling water, and a touch of honey. If you feel the onset of a cold, you now have a good reason to make this beverage.
Sweet Basil and Tomato Cooler
This invigorating beverage relies on a handmade tomato basil shrub for all of its work. You can use this fruity vinegar in various ways; it goes well with both cocktails and mocktails. The savoury, garden-fresh flavours of vine-ripe tomatoes make it a perfect summertime dish. Basil sugar, which is boiled in the shrub and also used to rim the glass, imparts sweet and fragrant flavours. You could end up incorporating any excess basil sugar into other dishes, such as sugar cookies or a peanut sauce for chilly noodles, since it is that delicious.