Is juicing part of your healthy diet?
If not yet, here are some reasons, tips, and benefits for you to consider juicing as one your healthy habit.
With that, have you seen the commercials on television advertising the benefits of juicing?
You can buy a blender or food processor and fill it with fruits and vegetables and with the press of a button have your daily recommended intake of fruits and vegetables conveniently in a smoothie type concoction.
Health Benefits of Juicing
Juicing can be an excellent way to get one’s daily vitamins and your recommended amounts of vegetables.
Many people have heard of juice fasts as a means of detoxifying the body. Followers of a raw foods regimen also include juices as part of their nutrition.
Nearly anything can be juiced – fruits and vegetables, primarily. It’s a form of concentrated nutrition. Some raw foodists drink only fresh fruit juices.
Adding vegetables to your juice is a wonderful idea for getting more nutrients.
Any type of leafy green is going to give you a stronger flavor if you want to mask the taste of the veggies, try using cucumbers.
You don’t even need to peel them before putting them through your juicer, and they won’t overpower the taste.
Bananas and papayas do not seem to do well in a juicer. You can still use them with juice, but it is best to stick them in a blender.
They are very thick and tend to work better when making fruit smoothies or any type of frozen dessert that you make. Use bananas in a blender such as the Nutri Bullet, it works really well.
You can also mix leafy green vegetables with something sweet. Leafy vegetables have a strong taste and may be too much for you to start with, on their own.
While fruit and vegetable juices are the most common form of juice, wheatgrass juice has been getting a lot of attention lately because of the denseness of nutrients it contains.
The primary advantage of truly fresh wheatgrass juice – juice made from raw, live, soil-grown wheat grass, is the apparent high level of life force energy that it contains.
It is one of the few truly fresh foods available. The grass is alive and growing right up to the time it is juiced, and hopefully, you are drinking it within a few minutes or so of juicing.
Most of us get our green veggies from markets, and they were picked days ago and refrigerated – losing vitality the whole time.
It is an even worse situation for fruit, which may be picked weeks before you eat it, and in some cases, held in cold storage for months – losing vitality the whole time. In contrast, one can grow wheatgrass indoors, and enjoy it when it is truly fresh.
Luckily, juicing is a great way to mix your foods. So, temper that strong vegetable taste with something sweeter like apples or carrots.
Plain water might work as well. Or you might like to try adding milk, almond or coconut milk are great choices.
Are you diabetic? Juicing can still be for you! You can juice so many different items that you’ll always be able to have a selection that does not contain too many carbohydrates or a large dose of sugar.
You can also include milk or yogurt in your drink to up your dairy intake. Use Greek yogurt if you want to increase your protein intake.
To lose weight quickly but in a healthy way, try juicing.Â
For your juicing diet tip, simply replace one to two meals per day with fresh green juice.
There are countless recipes available online, but you can make your own by mixing a green leafy vegetable with one or two fruits. You will be getting more vitamins and minerals than the average person, but fewer calories.
Whipping up a smoothie is a great choice for a quick afternoon snack.
It will provide you with enough energy to get you past that afternoon slump until dinner time.
Juicing may not be for everyone but it is not a difficult habit to form. With one simple purchase of a blender or a food processor, anyone can become a juicing expert.
The health benefits and the convenience of being able to juice any foods you want don’t require anything except the willingness to push a button on a food processor.
There are many benefits to juicing, especially if you prepare them yourself:
1. If drank fresh, the juice is full of live enzymes, which is helpful the body.
2. Unlike coming out from a packet, the juice is fresh and not pasteurized. Pasteurization many have its conveniences but it has resulted in nutritionally dead foods. During pasteurization, high heat is used and this destroys the vital nutrients within the juice.
3. You consume more vegetables by drinking than by eating. As you probably have experienced, it’s not always possible to eat as many vegetables as you would like. Drinking fresh vegetable juice helps take care of this problem.
Juicing Beets Recipes
Here of some stats of this said vegetable. Beets contain calcium, iron, Sulphur, potassium, beta-carotene, choline, and vitamin C.
They are high in manganese, an important mineral for brain function.
Beets are also high in minerals that strengthen the liver and gall bladder, and are the building blocks for blood corpuscles and cells.
Beets are famous for their ability to cleanse the blood.
Beet juice is super concentrated so I’d strongly advise you dilute it with water or other juices.
Purchase firm, rock-hard beets. Being a root, they can be stored for months in the refrigerator.
Juicing beets recipes:
Carrot, Spinach And Beets
You will need:
4 carrots
Beet with greens
5 – 6 leaves of Romaine or other leaf lettuce
3 – 4 leaves of spinach
You have to:
Scrub organic carrots or peel the carrots if they are not organic. Clean and cut beet into slender wedges.
Wash and dry lettuce and spinach leaves.
Juice half of the carrots, and the beet, and then you may use the remaining carrots to help push the lettuce and spinach through the juicer.
Sweet Beets
Blend the following:
5 Carrots
1 Apple
1/2 Beet
Power Punch
Blend the following:
1 small beet
1 pear
1 Fiji apple
A small piece of ginger 2 inches max
2 inches of salsify root
4 individual celery stalks
10-12 carrots
1 small parsnip
Beet Refresher
Blend the following:
4 Ounces of Raw Beet (with leaves)
3 Ounces of Raw Cucumber
9 Ounces Raw Carrot
Enjoy!
In conclusion, drinking plenty of fresh fruit juices daily will cleanse your system, make you feel completely energized and last but not least, you will look beautiful. People will wonder what you are doing differently!
POINTS TO REMEMBER
Juicing fruits and vegetables can enrich your diet.
Health Benefits of Juicing
- Juicing can be an excellent way to get one’s daily vitamins and your recommended amounts of vegetables.
- Adding vegetables to your juice is a wonderful idea for getting more nutrients.
- To lose weight quickly but in a healthy way, try juicing.
- Whipping up a smoothie is a great choice for a quick afternoon snack.
TAKEAWAY QUESTIONS
– Have you tried juicing some fruits and vegetables?
– What fruits and vegetables combinations have you tried?
– Are you including juicing in your healthy routine?
– How often do you have some juicing?
– Do you have any special recipe for juicing?
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