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Perk up your morning with this easy iced green tea and grapefruit sipper

Tracey Koch

April 21, 2020

For the April issue, 225 recipe writer Tracey Koch put together a menu of plant-based dishes to get you through breakfast, lunch and dinner with plenty of nutritious and filling vegetables. But what about those in-between moments when you need a refreshing pick-me-up?

Tracey was looking out for you there, too. Read on below for her recipe for an antioxidant-rich green tea and grapefruit juice concoction to help you start the day. And click here for all the other plant-based recipes she created for 225‘s April 2020 issue.

Green Tea and Grapefruit Juice

This recipe is packed full of antioxidants, vitamin C and just a little caffeine to get you going in the morning.

Servings: 6

3 cups freshly brewed green tea (chilled)
3 cups fresh squeezed grapefruit juice

1. In a large pitcher, combine the green tea and fresh grapefruit juice.
2. Fill 6 glasses with ice, and divide the tea mixture between the glasses. Serve and enjoy!

By Tracey Koch

Tracey Koch has been creating recipes, instructing cooking classes for both kids and adults, and writing food columns in the Baton Rouge area for over 25 years. She began writing her favorite column, “Dining In,” back in 2013. Find it featured in the Taste section of 225 Magazine every month. When she is not in the kitchen developing and testing new recipes, she is writing stories for her children’s book series about a little goose from Toulouse.