Sonnentor Cool Pot
What could be more relaxing than enjoying the warm sun in a deck chair? A gentle breeze of cool wind sweeps across your tanning skin in rhythmic intervals. The soothing rushing sound of the leaves on the trees makes you doze off slowly. Goodbye hectic tedious life!
In order to enjoy the sunny days in the garden or on the balcony carelessly, of course you should not forget one thing: drinking enough. The exact amount everyone should drink on a daily basis usually is only indicated rather vague. This is normal. Since the outside temperature, the body weight and the physical condition are affecting the drinking requirements significantly. By rule of thumb you can say: per kg body weight you should take in 30 ml of fluid a day. For a 60-kg woman that would be 2.1 l and for a 90-kg man it would be 2.7 l per day. Sportive activities increase the demand up to 40-45 ml of liquid per kg. If it is extremely hot, it is increased even more.
Liquid is one thing, calories the other. As regarding calories there is a huge difference between eating and drinking. Caloric food makes us sated. Just like low-calorie food. When the stomach is full, the stomach wall is stretched. Messengers inform the brain that the saturation level is reached. You stop to eat. Liquids do stretch the stomach wall as well; unfortunately only for a short time as they leave the stomach again quickly. Due to the consumption of juice and sweet soft drinks we however take in extra calories. The problem: we do not eat less, because drinking does not making us sated. Even if you could not eat just one single calorie more, in liquid state huge amounts of calories still fit in your body. This is precisely why nutritionists recommend still mineral water, diluted fruit juice or unsweetened tea.
Our bodies consist of water to over 50%. For our brains, it is even more. A fluid loss of 2-3% of our body weight already reduces our mental performance significantly. On the beach we normally do not notice this. In office, however, all the more. That’s why you should always have a drink in reach at the office. Water is not only the basis of life it is also a thirst quencher par excellence. Water of course does not taste particularly exciting. Long before there was sugar, carbon dioxide or flavorings, people tried to improve the taste of spring water. For example with the addition of fruit, roots or leaves. Cold it did not taste very differently, but cooked partly wonderful aromas developed.
Tea is one of the oldest beverages. Worldwide tea is drunk most frequently after water. Nomadic desert dwellers drink the hot brewed beverage even at 40°C in the shade. The reason behind it is simple. With cold drinks the body needs energy to heat the liquid up to body temperature. The result is that the body produces extra heat. Unfortunately it is not exactly the same the other way round. The desert dwellers thus drink hot tea only in small sips. This results in frequently slight sweating which then supports cooling down the body.
Those who are not crossing the desserts with Bedouins but are located on the beach or hold the fort in the office at hot summery temperatures probably still prefer some cool refreshment. In this case cold tea can be discovered as a refreshing and favorable thirst quencher. If you brew a tea at home or at work, you simply allow it to cool down afterwards. At the beach or when on a hiking trip there generally is no kettle available. With the Sonnentor Cool Pot tea bags you don’t have to miss the beloved tea. Because these tea bags you can simply pour with cold water. The result is a wonderfully refreshing tea. When hiking simply watch out for fresh springs or clear mountain streams. The preparation is even simpler than cooking tea: Just give one of the pyramidal tea bags into a mug, pour 250 ml of cold water and allow infusing for 20-25 minutes. For a 1 liter just use 4 pyramids.
The cold tea delight from Sonnentor can be enjoyed in three delicious varieties. The Cool Pot Strawberry Ginger is a delicate pink fruit infusion with a fine touch of ginger. On hot summer afternoons it refreshes with the light fruitiness of juicy strawberries and the surprising hotness of ginger. In Cool Pot Chocolate Mint Lemon Verbena, the lemony touch of verbena goes hand in hand with refreshing mint. The green-yellow shimmering blend of refreshing chocolate mint and lemony verbena delights especially in combination with fresh raspberries, lemon slices or lemon balm. The Col Pot Black Rooibos combines black tea and mint into a soft tea combination for beautiful summer days. At fist the characteristic Rooibos is dominating, then in the finish there is the slightly tart nuance of black tea, accompanied by a fresh touch of mint. And the best part:When has become chilly in the evening you can simply prepare the Cool Pots with hot water like usual.
