Want to make healthy juicing recipes at home? Store-bought juice can be expensive, and you don’t get the added benefit of using veggies from your produce drawer. Homemade juicing recipes are fast and easy: and cut down on food waste! Even better, you don’t even need a juicer. All you need is a blender to make juice at home! It’s helpful to have a high speed blender, but it’s not required. Before we get started, let’s talk about the health behind juicing.
Benefits of juicing…and caveats
First off: what are the actual benefits of juicing? Drinking juice recipes is not a cure-all. In fact, we do not recommend juice cleanses (see below). Here’s an outline of the pros and cons of juicing recipes:
Juice benefits you may have heard of are over-hyped. Celery juice does not make you skinnier or cure diseases. Don’t drink juice to try to cure specific ailments. Avoid juice cleanses. Research associates juice cleanses with disordered eating and a negative relationship with food (read more here).Drinking vegetables as juice gives you benefits, but no fiber. It’s actually even better to eat the whole vegetable. Most veggies and fruits are low in calories but high in nutrients. Drinking their juice gives you an infusion of vitamins!Juicing recipes are a good alternative to soda or other sugary drinks. Instead of drinking the empty calories and sugar in a soda, reaching for this juice is hands down a better choice!
So, if you’re ready to enjoy the nutrients of fresh fruits and veggies, use up your produce, and have a healthy alterative to sugary drinks — let’s go!
And now…a few easy juicing recipes to try!
Ingredients: Spinach or kale, cucumber, celery, apple, lemon juice Ingredients: Carrots, apple, orange, lemon, water Ingredients: Celery, green apple, water, lemon (optional) Ingredients: Cucumber, green apple, water, lemon (optional) Ingredients: Watermelon, lime (optional) Ingredients: Pink grapefruit, apples 5 from 1 review
1 cup water 2 medium apples, cut into chunks 3 cups baby spinach leaves (or chopped spinach or baby kale) 2 celery ribs, roughly chopped 1/2 cucumber, peeled and roughly chopped ½ tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice
For the carrot juice
1 pound carrots (2 ½ cups), chopped 1 large apple, chopped 1 large orange, peeled 1 pinch salt ½ cup water 1 tablespoon lemon juice
For the celery juice
8 medium-large stalks of celery (about 1 bunch), roughly chopped 1 large green apple, roughly chopped ½ cup water 1 teaspoon lemon or lime juice (optional)
For the cucumber juice
1 large English cucumber (or 1 to 1/2 standard cucumbers, peeled), roughly chopped 1 green apple, chopped 1 cup water 1 pinch salt ½ tablespoon lemon or lime juice (optional)
For the watermelon juice
4 cups cubed seedless watermelon, chilled
For the grapefruit juice
2 pink grapefruits, quartered and peeled 2 large apples ½ cup ice ¼ cup cold water 1 pinch salt 1 teaspoon honey, maple or agave syrup, plus more to taste (optional)
