Dessert Recipes for Fighting UTIs

Making urinary tract friendly desserts is not as difficult as you might think. With the following recipes you'll be creating amazing UTI-fighting desserts in no time! The dessert recipes below call for ingredients like carrots, cranberry juice, cherries, apples, blueberries, raspberries, nettle, and other foods that are supercharged with UTI-fighting nutrients.

For those of you who are interested in learning the basics of how to eat to beat recurrent UTIs, be also sure to take a look at the other sections of this online guide, including Diet Plan For Preventing Recurrent UTIs and List of Best Foods for Preventing UTI.

Carrot Muffins

Yields 12 muffins

These scrumptious muffins feature carrots which are an important vegetable to include in your diet if you are prone to getting urinary tract infections. Carrots are packed with beta-carotene, a precursor to vitamin A. Vitamin A plays a key role in maintaining healthy urinary tracts.

Ingredients
1 egg
1 cup rice milk
4 tbsp canola oil
2 cups quinoa flour or other gluten-free flour
1 tsp guar gum
1 tbsp flaxseed meal
3 1/2 tsp gluten-free baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup organic carrots, grated
1/4 cup raisins

Cranberry-Cherry Smoothie

2 servings

Cranberry juice has long been touted for its ability to prevent urinary tract and bladder infections. Also cherries, the other main ingredient in this smoothie, is sometimes recommended to women with recurrent UTIs.

Ingredients
12 cherries, stoned
1 cup cranberry juice
5 ice cubes

Low-Fat Apple and Raspberry Crumble

Dairy-Free

This lovely recipe combines apples and raspberries, two great sources of quercetin. Quercetin is a bioflavonoid that possesses strong anti-inflammatory properties.

Ingredients
5 large cooking apples, finely sliced
1 cup raspberries
2 cups apple juice
2 cups rolled oats
2 tbsp butter or margarine
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tsp of cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves

Apple Slices with Cinnamon

Serves 1

This dessert is a cinch to prepare, and it contains only 95 calories! But the benefits of this dish do not end there: apples are rich in vitamin C and flavonoids, which can give your immune system a real boost.

Ingredients
1 medium apple, cored and sliced
1/4 tsp cinnamon, ground

Nettle Crepes with Raspberries

There's no need to worry about this dessert stinging your tongue; the nettle in these crepes will only do you good. Young, cooked stinging nettle shoots are perfectly edible, and they are great at preventing urinary tract infections. In Germany, the Commission E (the German equivalent of the American Food and Drug Administration) has approved the use of nettle for the treatment of UTIs.

Ingredients
2 organic eggs
2 cup organic milk
1 cup all-purpose flour
7 oz young nettle shoots, blanched and chopped
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp white pepper
Vegetable cooking spray
Fresh raspberries, mashed

Note: As nettles are rich in nitrates, they should not be consumed by young children, people with gout, or other people with a condition that requires a low-nitrate diet.

Buckwheat Crepes with Prune Compote

2 servings (8 crepes)

Buckwheat provides a hefty amount of rutin, a bioflavonoid with powerful antioxidant properties. Plums contain the same compounds that appear to be responsible for cranberries' UTI-fighting properties.

Ingredients
2 eggs
1 1/4 cups rice milk
2/3 cup buckwheat flour
1/3 cup quinoa flour
1 Tbsp canola oil
1/2 tsp salt
Vegetable cooking spray, for frying
8 oz organic dried plums, pitted and softened in warm water
1 cup water
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp apple juice

Raspberry Blueberry Smoothie

3 servings

This smoothie combines blueberries and raspberries, two delicious berries that are at the top of the list of anti-UTI foods.

Ingredients
1 cup fresh raspberries
1 cup wild blueberries
3/4 cup rice milk
3/4 cup crushed ice
1 Tbsp flaxseed, freshly ground

For more recipes that can help you prevent UTIs, visit the main recipe directory of HealWithFood.org's Guide to Preventing UTIs.