Juicing is a great way to ingest more fruits and vegetables in your diet. You can get the vitamins and minerals of vegetables and fruit without having to eat so many of them. Enzymes from the fruit and vegetable juice help detoxify your blood. Juicing is also a great way to hydrate.
Greens
It is important to add green veggies to your juicing concoctions. Green veggies add plant protein and chlorophyll to your juice. Chlorophyll helps increase the flow of oxygen throughout our bodies. Kale, celery, spinach, cucumber, and lettuce are great green veggies to juice.
Doesn't Green Juice Taste Like Grass?
Green juice does not taste like grass, if you add fruits and other sweet veggies. Fruits like Fuji apples, carrots, beets and lemons are great in the juicer. Ginger is great, too!
Fruit like melons have a lot of sugar. I wouldn't juice them regularly. Keep in mind that certain fruits, like berries and bananas, don't juice well. Enjoy those fruits in smoothies.
I am getting back in the habit of drinking Green Lemonade every morning. The recipe if from
The Raw Food Detox Diet.
celery or cucumber
5-6 leaves kale w/stems
1 inch ginger
2 small or 1 large lemon
1-2 Fuji apple
It is recommended that you eat light to heavy every day. Begin the day with juice then fruit in the morning. Salads and other raw veggies during the day. Eat cooked foods, which are heavier on your digest, in the evenings.
Think about it. Heavy meals are harder on your digestion, which makes you feel tired. You are better off eating your heaviest meal at night.
Juicer
Juicing machines are pretty easy to operate these days. I have a Breville and love it. It is easy to clean. The juicer separates the juice from the roughage. You don't have to peel lemons or core your apples. Just cut the fruits and veggies in big pieces and throw them in. Hot water and soap are all you need to clean your juicer on a daily basis. I put the parts through the dishwasher once a week.
Just try it. You might like it. Experiment with different combinations. There are so many!
