Reprinted from The Blood Type Diet Website (www.dadamo.com)

Delicious Everyday Tea
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Contributed by: Ginny WAdded: Mar 13, 2010 at 10:29 PM


Description:

Delicious tea for any time of day - lots of good flavor and even better if you add a little bit of your favorite juice concentrate for a special treat.

Best Used By Blood Types:
  • Type A (3 beneficials)
  • Type AB (2 beneficials)
Category:
  • Beverages
Ingredients:
  • 12 cups filtered water
  • 7 thin slices fresh ginger
  • peel of 1/2 fresh lemon
  • 6 organic green or white tea bags
  • 1 green/raspberry tea bag
  • 2 rose hip tea bags
How to make it:
  1. Put water, fresh ginger and lemon rind in large pan. Bring almost to boil.
  2. Remove pan from heat.
  3. Add all tea bags and let steep for 2 1/2 minutes
  4. Remove and squeeze tea bags
  5. After another 5 minutes remove the slices of ginger and squeeze through a garlic press to get the ginger juice into the tea.
  6. Then discard the ginger pulp.
  7. Remove the lemon peel and discard.
  8. Enjoy!
    Note:
    This can be drunk hot or cold and can be stored in glass jars in refrigerator and reheated as needed. You can fill a 16 o container with about 14 oz of the tea and add juice concentrates for a take-along refreshing drink to sip during the day.

BTD Core Ingredients Analysis:

NameNotesA SecA NonABSecABNonB SecB NonO SecO Non
Green Tea1 B B B B B B B B
Ginger1 B B N B B B B B
Raspberry2 N N N N N B N N
Lemon/Lemon Juice1 B B B B N N N N
[1] This recipe uses ingredients which may help limit bacterial overgrowth.
[2] This recipe uses ingredients which may be high in pesticides.

  • This recipe is low in common allergens.
  • This recipe is gluten free.
  • This recipe uses ecologically friendly ingredients.

    If an ingredient is an avoid for your blood type, then try using a BTD compliant variant/substitute or leaving the item out of the recipe.

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    Revision History:
    • Revised Mar 18, 2010 at 09:39 PM By: Lola