Are you looking for a refreshing and delicious drink option that won’t ruin your diet or leave you feeling guilty? Look no further than low-calorie mocktails!
With a variety of flavors and ingredients to choose from, these non-alcoholic drinks are a great way to indulge in a tasty beverage without compromising your health goals.
Whether you’re hosting a party, relaxing at home, or simply looking for a healthier alternative to sugary sodas, a low-calorie mocktail is a perfect choice. In this article, we’ll explore some easy and delicious recipes for alcohol-free drinks that you can enjoy guilt-free.
Healthy & Low-Calorie Mocktail Ideas
Grapefruit Paloma Mocktail
The Healthy Grapefruit Paloma Mocktail from All The Healthy Things is a light and refreshing drink.
It is made with grapefruit juice, fresh lime juice, a touch of maple syrup, and sparkling water.
Strawberry Mocktail Spritzer
This Healthy Strawberry Mocktail Spritzer from Haute & Healthy Living only has just over 50 calories per serving and is the perfect drink for summer. Simply combine sliced fresh strawberries, juice of lime, and honey in a blender to puree.
Then combine with unsweetened sparkling water for a thirst-quenching, refreshing mocktail you’ll be drinking all summer long.
Pomegranate Punch Mocktail
by Food By Mars
The bright pink color of the Pomegranate Punch Mocktail from Food By Mars is beautiful for a special occasion or just a way to treat yourself. The color comes from the combination of pomegranate juice and fresh orange juice.
The drink also has fresh lemon juice and a few extra health benefits with the addition of a packet of orange-flavored electrolytes.
Green Tea Non-Alcoholic Hot Toddy
Most mocktail recipes get served over ice, but this Green Tea Non-Alcoholic Hot Toddy from Kroll’s Korner is amazing for curling up on a winter day and is only 64 calories.
To make it, combine hot Lipton Green Tea, honey, orange juice, lemon juice, ground cloves, and ground nutmeg for a special drink you’ll love.
Paleo Blueberry Lime Mocktail
You’ll love this low-sugar Blueberry Lime Mocktail from The Bettered Blondie.
It has blueberries, honey, fresh lime, fresh mint leaves, and sparkling berry water for a ton of flavor without the calories that come with traditional bottled fruit juice.
Non-Alcoholic Moscow Mule
Get your copper mug out because you’ll love this Non-Alcoholic Moscow Mule from Like Mother Like Daughter. It has lime, simple syrup, club soda, mint leaves, and non-alcoholic ginger beer.
It is 134 calories with regular ginger beer, but using a light ginger beer will reduce the calorie count even further.
Skinny Margarita Mocktails
Virgin Margarita
A Couple Cooks has paid attention to the details to replicate a classic margarita flavor without drinking alcohol. The secret? Pickle juice!
They combine fresh lime juice, fresh lemon juice, maple syrup or simple syrup, tonic water, and just the slightest bit of pickle juice which gives the bite tequila would give in an alcohol-free way!
Virgin Margarita Mocktail
A frozen margarita makes for a delicious mocktail with this recipe from Mindful Mocktail.
It uses the juice from fresh fruit, including limes, grapefruits, and oranges which gets blended with lime sparkling water and your choice of sweetener for a low-sugar mocktail that tastes just like a frozen margarita for 35 calories.
Skinny Orange Grapefruit Margarita
The Hangry Economist’s Skinny Orange Grapefruit Margarita is a 100-calorie mocktail with the perfect combination of lime juice, grapefruit juice, and orange juice with just a hint of added sweetness from a bit of maple syrup.
Frozen Low-Calorie Mocktails
Frozen Strawberry Mocktail
Paleo Gluten-Free Guy has created this Healthy Frozen Strawberry Mocktail that is naturally sweet and tastes just like a Strawberry Daiquiri. It has simple ingredients, too, only requiring fresh or frozen strawberries, orange juice, lime juice, and plain water.
Healthy Frozen Mango Margarita Mocktail
This Frozen Mango Margarita mocktail from Miss Allie’s Kitchen is one of our favorite healthy mocktails that the whole family will enjoy.
The ingredients, including frozen mango chunks, lime juice, agave, sparkling water, seltzer, or club soda, all come together in a delicious way for a healthy mocktail you’ll always want more of.
Frozen Strawberry Watermelon Mocktail
Nothing screams summer more than strawberries and watermelon. The Frozen Strawberry Watermelon Mocktail from Gathered Nutrition hits the mark as one of your next go-to healthy mocktail recipes.
It’s so easy, too, with watermelon, strawberries, cold water, lime, and honey.
Skinny Mojito Mocktails
Zero Calorie Virgin Mojito
by Cleobuttera
Looking for zero-calorie healthy mocktails? Look no further than the Zero Calorie Virgin Mojito from Cleobuttera. The drink is just lemon or lime, fresh mint leaves, and diet lemon-lime soda.
You could also use chilled sparkling water. It’s simple, refreshing, quite tasty, and sugar-free.
Mojito Mocktail
The Mojito Mocktail from Always Use Butter doesn’t have any added sugar, either! The recipe combines fresh mint, soda water, and fresh limes. That’s it! And it is only 20 calories per serving.
Frozen Cucumber Mojito Mocktail
If you like healthy drinks that aren’t fruity, this Frozen Cucumber Mojito Mocktail from The Delicious Spoon is for you. You know the cucumber water they give you at the spa? Well, this tastes just like it except better.
Blueberry Frozen Mojito Mocktail
from Manuel Villacorta
This healthy mocktail recipe from Manuel Villacorta is similar to the other mojito mocktail recipes, except it includes blueberries that add a nice sweet and tart flavor profile.
Not only is it naturally sweetened from the blueberries, but there’s also a bit of monk fruit that makes it sweet enough to balance out the other flavors without a sugar content that will affect your blood sugar.
Manuel Villacorta also has two other delicious healthy mocktail recipes, including one that has sparkling apple cider.
Skinny Tropical Mocktails
Tropical Mocktail
The Tropical Mocktail recipe from Jess Explains is a great balance of tart and sweet. It uses a blend of real fruit with sparkling water so you can stay in good health while enjoying a refreshing, tasty drink. This one has oranges, raspberries, and strawberries.
Orange Pineapple & Coconut Mocktail
Healthy Family Project’s Orange Pineapple and Coconut Mocktail recipe is essentially a healthy creamsicle. Pineapple juice, fresh squeezed orange juice, and unsweetened coconut milk come together to create a healthy mocktail that has a fraction of the sugar and calories.
If blood orange is more to your taste, feel free to use blood orange juice instead as well. Vanilla bean is also an excellent addition idea, too.
Healthy Pina Colada Mocktail Recipe
A Pina Colada Mocktail that will transport you straight to the beach for 112 calories? Yes, please! The Healthy Pina Colada Mocktail recipe from Food Meanderings has coconut extract, crushed pineapple, light coconut milk, rum extract, and agave syrup.
Since it uses rum extract, it is still alcohol-free while tasting exactly like the sugar and calorie-filled pina colada you had on your last vacation.
Mocktails for Gut Health
Sparkling Cranberry Kombucha Mocktail
The Sparkling Cranberry Kombucha Mocktail from The Real Food Dieticians looks like Christmas in a glass with its bright magenta color and rosemary garnish.
However, it is good any time of year because it has some fantastic ingredients for your health, including Kombucha, 100% cranberry juice, and fresh ginger.
Apple Cider Vinegar Digestive Mocktail
by Plattershare
Apple cider vinegar has been growing in popularity for its gut health benefits. Though apple cider vinegar doesn’t seem very palatable, this mocktail has made it delicious.
It combines apple cider vinegar with ginger juice, lemon juice, honey, and sparkling water or soda water. We have also tried using sparkling apple cider instead of soda water, which is great as well.
Gut Healthy Mixed Berry Mocktail
by Kale Junkie
This recipe is a refreshing drink that is hydrating and quite good for digestion. Kale Jukie combines mint leaves, lemon juice, lime juice, raw honey, blueberries, strawberries, coconut water, and club soda.
Don’t forget to leave room for the berries when pouring the drink into your glass! You can also use other fruit too, like passion fruit, depending on what you like.
Pomegranate Mocktail with Ginger and Orange
from Clean Eating Kitchen
Ginger and kombucha are both excellent for digestive health, and this healthy mocktail recipe from Clean Eating Kitchen has both! It is made with pomegranate juice, freshly squeezed orange juice, and ginger kombucha.
However, since kombucha does have a small amount of alcohol if you want to go completely booze-free, you can swap it out for sparkling water.
FAQs
Are mocktails low in calories?
Mocktails can be low in calories depending on the recipe, while others are higher in sugar, which makes them higher in calories.
Are mocktails high in calories?
Not all mocktails are high in calories. The number of calories in a mocktail depends on the ingredients, so if you use ingredients that are high in sugar, it tends to be higher in calories, while lower-sugar ingredients make for lower-calorie healthy mocktail recipes.
Which mocktail is good for health?
There are several healthy mocktails that are good for overall health, including many that have probiotic-rich kombucha or water kefir and other great ingredients like ginger for reducing inflammation or oranges, which provide a good dose of Vitamin C.
Key Takeaways
- Whether you are participating in ‘dry January’ or simply reducing your alcohol consumption, mocktails make for an excellent way to have an occasional drink that feels special without too many extra calories.
- There are several non-alcoholic tasty drinks that are refreshing and more fun than plain water or iced tea.
- The non-alcoholic drinks and healthy mocktails on this list are a good place to start when reducing your consumption of alcohol.
Low Calorie Mocktails
- Grapefruit Paloma Mocktail
- Strawberry Mocktail Spritzer
- Pomegranate Punch Mocktail
- Green Tea Non-Alcoholic Hot Toddy
- Paleo Blueberry Lime Mocktail
- Non-Alcoholic Moscow Mule
- Virgin Margarita
- Virgin Margarita Mocktail
- Skinny Orange Grapefruit Margarita
- Frozen Strawberry Mocktail
- Healthy Frozen Mango Margarita Mocktail
- Frozen Strawberry Watermelon Mocktail
- Zero Calorie Virgin Mojito
- Mojito Mocktail
- Frozen Cucumber Mojito Mocktail
- Blueberry Frozen Mojito Mocktail
- Tropical Mocktail
- Orange Pineapple & Coconut Mocktail
- Healthy Pina Colada Mocktail Recipe
- Sparkling Cranberry Kombucha Mocktail
- Apple Cider Vinegar Digestive Mocktail
- Gut Healthy Mixed Berry Mocktail
- Pomegranate Mocktail with Ginger and Orange