Healthy Pear Lemonade (fruit-sweetened, no-sugar, 3-ingredients)

Healthy Pear Lemonade is a refreshing nutritious homemade lemonade that can be made with just three whole food ingredients – pears and lemons, and without a juicer, without refined sugar, and without stress. The perfect fun summertime drink for you or even the kids to make at home.

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Healthy Pear Lemonade (fruit-sweetened, no-sugar, 3-ingredients)

Perfect for a forward-thinking lemonade stand. This lemonade is sweetened with pears!

No sugar or processed fruit juice is involved at all. And it works beautifully because pears are so mildly sweet, and so light that they obediently disappear into the swirl of lemon juice and water. You can filter as well via a small sieve to make it crystal clear, although sometimes I do and sometimes I don’t.

Here I just added ice and a few slices of lemon, and even a few kumquats for color. It is delicious! Not too sweet, not too sour.

Make THIS lemonade when life gives you lemons! You won’t be sorry.

How Healthy is this Pear Lemonade?

And anyway, who can feel sorry drinking a sunny drink like lemonade. Oh, and do I need to remind of you of the health benefits in this drink? Lemon, of course, is an immunity-boosting and detox star, helping you ward off germs, as well as flushing toxins from your body.

The pear is no slouch either, offering vitamin C, vitamin K, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, riboflavin, vitamin B-6, and folate.

Just remember to buy organic pears as pears are listed as one of the “dirty dozen” with the EWG.com, that nonprofit that measures pesticides in our food. Visit their site to learn what produce needs to be bought organic in order to avoid pesticides in your meals.

Besides the nutrition, this drink is simply fun to drink! Hmm, I think I see it as popsicles in the future.

This recipe is also perfect for children, although you might want to up the pears if your child likes things sweeter.

This Lemonade is Easy to Make

It’s very easy to make this lemonade. Just wash and chop the pears. Best nutritional profile is achieved if you don’t peel them and instead filter out an skin debris once the lemonade is blended. And juice the lemons.

A quick hack to get more juice from your lemons is to warm them before juicing. You can do this either in the microwave (don’t let them run too long) or sit them in a pot of hot water while you prep the pears.

Put pears and lemon juice in a blender, process, and refrigerate. Before serving, pour through a sieve to remove any remaining particles.

If you like lemons, you might be interested in my No-Juicer Made-in-Blender Lemon Ginger Shot, more detox than fun but lots of lemons involved!

I hope you enjoy them both!
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Healthy Pear Lemonade (fruit-sweetened, no-sugar, 3-ingredients)

Healthy Pear Lemonade is a refreshing nutritious homemade lemonade that can be made with just three whole food ingredients - pears and lemons, and without a juicer, without refined sugar, and without stress. The perfect fun summertime drink for you or even the kids to make at home.

Course Drinks

Cuisine vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free

Keyword homemade lemonade, lemonade, pear lemonade, refined-sugar-free, sugar-free lemonade

Does it keep? 3-4 days

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Servings 2

Calories 50 kcal

Author Dee Dine

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup ripe pear (probably 2-3, peeled, chopped) Buy it organic - pears are listed as one of the "dirty dozen" with the EWG
• 1 cup lemon juice Squeezing 6 lemons should produce about 1 cup juice
• 1/2 cup water

Equipment

• Hand-held Juicer
• Strainer

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Prep

1. Wash, peel and chop the pears.
   

2. Juice lemons using a hand juicer. If you microwave the lemons for10 seconds before juicing, you'll get maximum juice.

Make the lemonade

1. Add the pear, lemon juice and water to a high speed blender and blend until the liquid is completely blended. It might be a bit frothy from the pear, you can either spoon that off or let it disappear in the refrigerator.

2. Put the lemonade in the refrigerator to completely chill through.

   When ready to serve, pour once through a sieve to remove any debris.

3. Serve with ice and lemon slices anything else you have on hand _ I had some tiny kumquats! Keep refrigerated for 3-4 days for best fresh flavor.

Nutrition Facts

Healthy Pear Lemonade (fruit-sweetened, no-sugar, 3-ingredients)

Amount Per Serving

Calories 50 Calories from Fat 9

% Daily Value*

Fat 1g2%

Saturated Fat 1g5%

Sodium 5mg0%

Potassium 172mg5%

Carbohydrates 15g5%

Fiber 2g8%

Sugar 7g8%

Protein 1g2%

Vitamin C 48.9mg59%

Calcium 7mg1%

Iron 0.1mg1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Dee Dine

Dee Dine is the recipe developer and writer behind Green Smoothie Gourmet. She shares her super healthy wholesome recipes on her blog and her Instagram that she feeds her family and friends. She gravitates toward recipes that are fast to create, plant-based, nutritious, easy, and use familiar ingredients. And chocolate is always a good idea! More about Dee.