🥤 Tonic Water
Tonic water is a carbonated soft drink flavoured with quinine, which gives it a distinctive dry bitterness, and sweetened with sugar. It is drunk ice-cold, on its own with a slice of lime or lemon, or used as a mixer. Its fine bubbles and bitter-sweet taste make it more grown-up than most sodas.
Diets
Allergens
None of the 14 major allergens in a typical recipe.
What it is made of
Recipe
Ingredients
- 200 ml chilled tonic water
- Ice cubes
- 1 slice lime or lemon
- A few mint leaves (optional)
Method
- Fill a glass with ice.
- Pour in the tonic water slowly to keep the bubbles.
- Add the citrus slice and mint and serve at once.
How to make it lighter
- Choose a diet or light tonic to cut the sugar.
- Mix half tonic with half sparkling water for fewer calories.
- A 200 ml glass of regular tonic counts as a sweet drink, so include it in your daily total.
History
Quinine, from cinchona bark, was taken against malaria in the 19th century, and British people in India are usually credited with mixing it with sugar and soda water to make it palatable. Commercial tonic water followed later that century and is sold worldwide today.
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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →