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# Healthy Recipes: Ginger-Ade
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/healthy_recipes_1107120719/
- Published: 2012-11-07T08:18:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:09:30.000Z
- Description: A holiday mocktail: fresh ginger, star anise and cinnamon simmered and steeped into a concentrate, then served hot with water or cold over ice with club soda, sweetened to taste with a lemon wedge. Four servings at 54 calories each; the concentrate keeps three days.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Healthy Recipes from AICR, Recipes & Dining, #vivvo-import

Holiday Mocktail

# Ginger-Ade

The holiday season is full of food, family and full glasses. But limiting alcohol is a good way to promote better health and lower cancer risk. Researchers have linked regular alcohol consumption to head, neck and liver cancers, and believe it may be a culprit in higher risk for colon, rectal and breast cancers. Instead of overdoing it on the bubbly, try this delicious fizzy mocktail, featuring fresh ginger, anise and cinnamon.

**Makes 4 servings.**

**Per serving (includes 2 tsp. sweetener per serving):** 54 calories, <1 g fat (0 g sat fat),   
14 g carbohydrates, <1 g protein, 0 g fiber, 3 mg sodium.

| 1/3 cup (3 oz.) thinly sliced, fresh ginger 1 whole star anise 3-in. piece stick cinnamon 1½ cups cold water Agave, maple syrup, honey or sugar\* 1 lemon, cut lengthwise into 4 wedges |  | **To serve hot:**3 cups hot water **To serve cold:**3 cups cold seltzer or club soda |
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## Directions

1. Place ginger, star anise, cinnamon and water in small saucepan. Bring water to a boil over medium-high heat, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Cover, and set aside to steep for 30 minutes. Strain hot ginger concentrate into heatproof measuring cup.
2. To serve hot, divide hot concentrate among 4 mugs. Add 3/4 cup hot water to each, and sweeten to taste. Add lemon wedge to squeeze into hot gingerade.
3. To serve cold, cool ginger concentrate to room temperature. Divide among 4 tall glasses. Add 6 ice cubes to each glass, then pour in 3/4 cup club soda. Sweeten cold gingerade to taste, add lemon wedge to each glass, and serve.
4. Unused concentrate will keep, tightly covered in refrigerator, for 3 days.

\* If using sugar, combine 3/4 cup with 3/4 cup cold water in a small saucepan. Set the pot over medium-high heat and cook until the sugar dissolves, 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool to room temperature, then use the syrup or refrigerate, tightly covered. This simple syrup keeps indefinitely.