Healthy Living Tips, Nutrition And Healthy Living Guide

Simply put, a fresh-pressed juice is simply a mixture of water and natural plant sugars along with all the inherent vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. For that reason, juicing is a quick and easy way to give your body tons of your fantastic nourishment and sustained energy without having to eat pounds of fruits and vegetables. As a result, I know you’ll love the juicing recipes I’m about to share with you and I hope you can make them a part of your healthy raw diet.

Fruits and vegetables contain different nutrients in varying amounts but regardless of which ones you decide to use, your body will thank you. The goal, then, is to find the right combinations to elicit the greatest possible taste! After all, for some people, the taste of green vegetable just ins’t their cup of tea.

Tips on Choosing the Right Juicing Ingredients

Hopefully, you understand the importance of organic foods. Thus, whenever possible choose organic fruits and vegetables over conventionally grown produce. That way you avoid all the pesticides and genetically modified foods that wreak havoc on your body. A local farmer’s market is a great place to start.

Fresh vegetables should be firm, colourful, and alive. Fruit should be ripe (but not mushy). For instance, bananas should be fully yellow (not green); apricots should have an orange-yellow hue; kiwis should be uniformly soft but not bruised; and melons and pineapple should have a sweet aroma - just to give you a few examples.

You should clean your fruits and veggies before making any of these juicing recipes so that any dirt, debri, or surface chemicals be removed as best as possible.

5 Energizing Juicing Recipes

Here are 5 of my favourite juices. To make them you’ll need a citrus juicer and a regular juicer. The Melon Ball juice requires only a blender. Enjoy!

Citrus Party

1 orange
1 tangerine
1 pink grapefruit

1. Juice the fruit in a citrus juicer and combine.

Morning Pick Me Up

1 apple
1 tomato
2 carrots
1 orange, juiced in a citrus juicer
Juice of 1/2 lemon

1. Juice the apple, tomato, and carrots.
2. Add the orange juice and mix well.

Bugs Bunny

8 carrots
1 orange, juiced in a citrus juicer
Juice of 1/2 lemon

1. Juice the carrots
2. Add the orange juice and mix well.

Melon Ball

1/4 watermelon
1/4 cantaloupe melon
1/4 honeydew melon
pinch of cinnamon

1. Peel and seed the melons.
2. In a blender, blend to together and then serve over ice.
3. Sprinkle some cinnamon to garnish.

The Immunizer

1 beet
4 carrots
1/2 grapefruit, juiced in a citrus juicer
1-inch piece of ginger

1. Juice all ingredients and mix well.

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by Yuri Elkaim, BPHE, CK, RHN
Author, Eating for Energy

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