Drink with oil, lemon and honey
Olive oil is the fat that in a cardiology guide keeps returning. Here it goes in a glass with lemon, because that way it is easier to leave the table without boxed juice.
Boxed juice is usually water, sugar and flavour. This drink is short: fat, acid, a little honey. You do not have to like it at the first spoon. In a week it stops feeling strange, the way black coffee once stopped feeling strange.
Time: 3 minutes. Servings: 1 glass. It is not a juice and not a “miracle shot”. It is a dressing you drink, or a dressing you can put on tomato if the glass feels odd.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (the salad one, not the frying one)
- juice of ½ lemon (or 1 tablespoon if the lemon is large and very sharp)
- a teaspoon of honey (or none, if you do not like sweet)
- 50 ml tepid water, not hot: boiling water makes the lemon bitter
Steps
- Warm a splash of water until it is drinkable, not boiling.
- In a glass or a jar with a lid, dissolve the honey in the water.
- Squeeze the half lemon. Remove pips. Add the juice.
- Add the oil. Close and shake 10 seconds, or stir with a spoon if there is no lid. The oil does not mix fully: that is normal. Drink it in one go or in two sips with breakfast.
Why it is not boxed juice
The box brings sugar and volume. This glass brings fat that belongs in a breakfast and an acid that acts as a bridge. It does not “clean the liver” or “detox”. Those phrases are surplus. What it does: remove the reflex of opening a juice or a cold drink at 08:00. The water of the day still goes in another glass, through the morning, not concentrated here.
Olive oil is the same fat you would put on tomato. If the glass feels strange, use exactly these ingredients on a cut tomato and a little bread. The rule is the same: more oil, less industrial juice.
Variations
- Without honey: only water, lemon and oil. Drier, equally valid.
- With orange: half the lemon and a splash of fresh orange. Not a box.
- On food: the same dressing on tomato salad, no need to drink it.
- Without oil: then it is not this recipe. The oil is the point. If the doctor limited fat, ask first.
Stomach, gallbladder, night
If the stomach is empty and protests, take the glass after the eggs with seeds, not before. If you have gallstones or have been told to watch fat, do not improvise an “oil remedy”. Talk to the doctor. Lemon on an empty stomach also burns some people: dilute more water or move it to breakfast.
At night, leave it. The oil does not wreck sleep by itself, but another fluid at 22:00 is usually surplus when the problem is getting up to the bathroom. The fluid map is in the article on waking at night.
Tip
Do not turn it into a three-day “detox”. One glass with breakfast, four or five mornings a week, is enough for it to stop feeling strange. Buy one extra lemon on Sunday. The oil, the usual kitchen one. Honey, a small jar; you do not need an expensive variety.
After breakfast you can prepare Urokolia herbal infusion mid-afternoon, not instead of this glass and not at 21:00. It is kitchen routine, not consulting-room routine.
Who it is not for
For anyone looking for a miracle. For anyone who cannot take oil. For anyone who replaces the day’s water with this sip and arrives thirsty at 21:00. The rest: men who in any case should eat more oil than butter on bread.
The frame is in daily diet and in the rhythm of the week.
The content on this site is informational and concerns daily habits and wellness products. It does not replace medical advice. If you have symptoms, see a specialist.