Tasty Liquids for Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has given the consumption of immunity boosting food and beverages an added focus in our lifestyle. People are now not only adhering to hygiene norms in more numbers but are becoming much more health conscious in their eating habits. Perhaps that is the only benefit we can accrue from the ongoing pandemic, which otherwise has come as a curse (hopefully temporary) to our lives and livelihood.

- Jhuma Biswas

Not only high-end formal restaurants and casual dining restaurants, but also street corner bakery outlets, QSR chains and cafes, which have recently resumed operations across India after months of being shut, can garner decent revenues by having more and more innovative immunity boosting beverages or even commonly known healthy beverages in their menu. These additional revenues can help them to tackle the challenge of these trying times better.

Of course, here I want to emphasise that simply intake of immunity boosting beverages would not guarantee you good health and safeguard from various diseases, but yes their regular intake can facilitate towards such an endeavour.

One of the important immunity boosting beverages that could be extensively used by bakery outlets and cafes can be turmeric tea, with infusion of lemon juice and honey. Turmeric has curcumin, which is endowed with anti-inflammatory effects. Curcumin is also a strong antioxidant.

Banana honey smoothie with yogurt and sprinkling of pumpkin seeds can also be a wonderfully healthy beverage that our bakery outlets, QSRs and cafes can promote more and more. This thick beverage can help weight loss and also facilitate in building immunity.