The Master Cleanse Diet’s effectiveness is mostly because of the simplicity of the diet. The Cleanse in mostly based on the lemonade mixture and can include herbal tea mixes. For the most part the Master Cleanse is a liquid diet and the ingredients that you will be getting are purely for the lemonade. The diet expels all the harmful toxins from your system and at the same time returns much needed energy. As a welcome by product, it also causes the person on diet to lose significant weight over a short period of time.

Here are the basic Master Cleanse lemonade ingredients. These should be enough to last you anywhere from 10-12 days of the Master Cleanse Diet:

• 40 large lemons or 80 limes. If you can, pick the organic ones for a healthier choice. This is an amount enough for five days. Any quantity more than that might cause the lemons or limes to spoil before reaching the tenth day. So buy half the quantity required first.
• 80 fl. Oz of Organic Grade B Maple Syrup. Make sure that you get organic Grade B syrup. Commercial grade syrup will not work well for the diet.
• 2.5 ounces of Cayenne Pepper Powder. If it is available, try getting organic Cayenne Pepper Powder for your mixture.
• 1 box of Herbal Laxative tea bags. You can try using Senna tea instead of the usual Herbal teas. You should have enough to last you around 1-2 cups of Herbal Laxative tea.
• About 5 gallons of spring or purified water but anything more than that would be good as your daily drinking water rather than fluorinated water. It is important not to drink fluorinated water because it is a chemical that can accumulate within our body and increase risk of cancer.

After going through the above shopping list of ingredients for your lemonade diet, make sure that you clean out your kitchen, and even you entire household, of all unhealthy solid foods. This is so that you will not get tempted to stray away from the diet and consume these foods. Make sure that all you have in your kitchen are these ingredients to ensure staying on the diet. Keeping these in your kitchen will make sure that when you feel hungry and stray towards the kitchen, all you have there is the Master Cleanse Lemonade.