The lemonade diet recipe is part of "The Master Cleanse." The "lemonade diet" or ,"Master Cleanse," is used as a detoxification process to rid your body of harmful toxins. Detoxifying your body every now and then is a good thing to do to help keep your body functioning in a healthy productive way. Toxins build up for years in your system and come from eating or drinking things that might be considered unhealthy. Typically these things are junk food and sodas. The diet is typically a 10 day long process that includes drinking nothing but a home made "lemonade" as well as a laxative tea every night before bed, and a saline wash every morning. You can keep the diet shorter if you would prefer, about 4-5 days. Some people also choose to carry it on longer, to about 2 weeks. The length of your personal diet is entirely up to you.

The lemonade diet recipe itself consists of lemons, water, cayenne pepper and organic grade B maple syrup. The laxative tea and a saline wash are also needed to make up the rest of the diet. For one days serving you will need to mix together, 60 ounces of water, 12 tablespoons of both freshly squeezed lemon juice (do not use pre-bottled lemon juice as it does not give the same effect that fresh juice does) and the organic maple syrup and about half a teaspoon of the cayenne pepper. You mix all of these ingredients together and you have your lemonade. Also, every night before you go to bed you drink a cup of laxative tea. When you wake up in the morning you drink a saline flush, which is about 2 tablespoons of salt mixed into a quart of water.

A good tip to help ease the task of preparing this drink everyday is to have an empty gallon jug or container to put the lemonade into. By doing this you have a full days requirement already in place so you don't have to make one glass at a time. You also know that once the jug or container is empty, you've consumed the required amount for that day.

Speaking from experience, any tip to make the mixing process easier takes so much stress off of your shoulders. Whichever method you choose, daily preperation or a day's worth at a time, the lemonade diet recipe is a simple and easy one to follow.