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Juicing Greens (recipe ideas)

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Increase your knowledge about green juicing!

The juice of organic vegetables will not only speed up the process of detoxification, but it will also flood your body with enzymes, vitamins, and minerals for quick absorption and will significantly benefit the immune system.

The juice of organic vegetables is rich in nutrients. As the cells of your body are bathed in these fresh, alkaline vegetable juices, they begin to release acids, which are toxins that can then be removed through the elimination channels of the body, i.e., the lungs, kidneys, skin, etc.

Juicing provides a rich source of live enzymes essential to the digestive process. Enzymes are proteins that break down foods into nutrients your body can readily digest. When you eat, digestive enzymes are released from your saliva glands sending signals to the stomach and small intestine in preparation for digestion. If you are new to juicing, start slow and gradually introduce vegetable juice to your body.

Cautions… Concentrated Nutrients

Fresh vegetable juice is more concentrated than the vegetables you eat. Also, the nutrition and benefits of the vegetables are released and made available to the body much faster than if your body were digesting a whole vegetable.

If you are new to juicing, you will want to begin with more basic vegetables such as carrots, celery, parsnips, cucumber, etc. Then with time, gradually introduce vegetables such as dandelion leaves, parsley, beet greens, etc. Purslane and wheat grass are more powerful juices and should be added after juicing for a while.

You need to be more careful when using green juices such as broccoli, lettuce, cabbage, dandelion, spinach, collard greens, mustard greens, kale, and all other greens.

These juices tend to be more powerful and so you will want to start slow and gradually increase. Ultimately, you never want more than a quarter of your juice to be green juice.

Eat Your Veggies Too

Fresh vegetable juice is great, but you are still going to need to eat your veggies too!

Your body is a natural juicer. As an example, when you eat a carrot, your body begins to digest it. Essentially, your body extracts the juice from the carrot and then gathers the nutrition from the juice for its bodily functions. Then, the fiber passes through the colon and helps keep you regular.

The benefit of juicing is that you help your body by removing the step required to extract the juice from the vegetable. But in doing so, you also lose the all-important fiber. So continue eating your veggies to get the fiber you need to help maintain regularity.

Juice Responsibly

We’ve all heard that saying, “Drink Responsibly.” Well, today I am going to advise you to juice responsibly. As I mentioned above, green juices, in particular, are very potent! How much you can drink will depend on where you are coming from in your health journey.

Ultimately, it is important that we are consciously aware of the power that the vegetables and fruits can and do have on our body. Certain vegetables can have profound effects. For example, celery and parsley juice is a natural diuretic. Dandelion leaves stimulate the liver. Beets can move your bowels. By introducing too much of these powerful juices at once, your body can experience negative symptoms.

Juicing Foundation

Simple Recipes

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Basil Juice

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  • Basil can be bought from your local grocery store or you can also grow it yourself.
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Celery Juice

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Dandelion Leaves

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Kale

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Mustard Greens

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Parsley

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Cilantro Juice

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There are SOOO many different greens and veggies that you can juice. The possibilities are truly endless.

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6 thoughts on “Juicing Greens (recipe ideas)

  1. Jami says:

    First…I LOVE the Print this Recipe feature!! I will end up with my own Nouveau Raw recipe book! :)

    Thanks for all this info…it’s funny that after hours and hours of online research on juicers, it was the new vertical Omega that I thought I needed! :)

    • amie-sue says:

      Jami, you do know how to make me smile. :) The vertical Omega juicer is a lovely one, I stand by it! Best of all, it’s not hard to clean which can often be the case with juicers. I will bring you mine so you can test drive it. :)

  2. Suzie says:

    I love the recipes and the thought of juicing and drinking it…. also the health benefits with juicing and drinking. I am a female with high blood pressure.what veges and fruits would you recommend or would be good for me to drink?. I am also having trouble being regular….please help me. Tasmania

    • amie-sue says:

      Good morning Suzie,

      Juicing can be so healing for the body. I am not a doctor so please take my advice and/or thoughts as a suggestion. It is always a good idea to consult with your doctor when making dietary changes, specially with health issues in place.

      I found a site that might be really helpful for you, please click on the following link: https://juicerecipes.com/health/

      Let me know if you find this helpful. Blessings, amie sue

  3. maureen says:

    Good morning one of the reasons for my being….. {{ HUGS}}

    So, Here is the only Recipe I have been making in the last three weeks since I got my juicer. I’m concerned if these ingredients maybe too hard on the system and if their portion ratio and volume is too much… ( I do belch a lot ). Also, concerned about the acid content you speak about in this article. Also, my hubby is diabetic should I have any considerations when juicing. Also, I have a hiatlel hernia and on ant acid meds..

    Each of these ingredients weigh 2.5 ounces except the greens they weigh 5 ounces combined.

    Greens: baby kale, baby spinach, baby chard Mix. 5 ounces total.

    Broccoli
    Cabbage

    Celery
    Carrots

    One small Granny Smith green apple.

    What are your thoughts?

    I eating a huge green salad ( Mixing Bowl Size for dinner ) with about 16 ingredients. I am using Dr. Fuhrman’s GBOMS guide (green, beans, onions, mushrooms, berries and seeds) plus adding super seeds.

    Throughout the day I will have a fermented yogurt bowl and other things…. Though since I have been juicing I have been skipping my oatmeal scoop into my yogurt bow.

    So…… Why am I struggling to eliminate. I do eliminate daily and I am allowing a 15 hour fast but I am surprised of the struggle.

    Also, do you have your celery juice recipe on your site? Sorry I haven’t looked yet…. thank you in advance for your reply,

    • amie-sue says:

      Good afternoon Maureen,

      Thanks for reaching out and sharing your experience/struggles. Let me see if I can offer any help.

      “I’m concerned if these ingredients maybe too hard on the system and if their portion ratio and volume is too much… ( I do belch a lot ).
      Addressing the belching. Here are a few ideas that can lead to belching with juicing.

      #1 If you down a lot of juice too fast, you’ll swallow extra air along the way. Most of this won’t go to your stomach. It will stay in your esophagus, which links your throat to your stomach until you burp it back up. Slow down, chew your juice, and try smaller portions, so you burp less.
      #2 Have you tried reducing the amount you drink to see if you get a different result?
      #3 Indigestion can lead to burping (along with other symptoms). While vegetables can actually aid in digestive health, eating them in the concentrated form, such as when juicing, may be too much for your digestive system. You might also have an underlying digestive disorder that is being exacerbated by consuming juiced vegetables.
      #4 Cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and asparagus have a sugar in them called raffinose that can cause gas and indigestion-like symptoms.
      #5 Have you been tested for an underlying gastrointestinal disorder?
      #6 Adding acidic foods to your meals can make matters worse.

      Things to Try
      —Try drinking a half-juice and half-water mix. If this relieves your symptoms, gradually decrease the amount of water, you are adding.
      —Another solution is to take out one vegetable at a time to see if they are causing the problem.

      With your hubby having diabetes , I would just watch the sugars, even in carrots as they are high in sugars.

      Why am I struggling to eliminate?
      “What are your thoughts? I eating a huge green salad ( Mixing Bowl Size for dinner ) with about 16 ingredients. I am using Dr. Fuhrman’s GBOMS guide (green, beans, onions, mushrooms, berries, and seeds) plus adding super seeds.

      WOW, girl, you pack a lot of different veggies into your day! This ontop of juicing and whatever you take in.
      — Is this way of eating new to you – volume-wise?
      — Did you recently ramp up the amount of veggies you eat?
      — Outside of elimination issues, do you burp a lot with these meals, or is that just with juicing?
      — Do you suffer from bloating? Stomach pain?
      — Cooking vegetables before eating them breaks down fiber, which makes vegetables more digestible. I found that I had to reduce my intake of raw veggies. My digestion and
      elimination works better when I eat them steamed. Of course, I eat raw lettuce/greens, but I reduce the amount and toss it with the cooked veggies.
      — Do you drink enough water?
      — Do you drink caffeinated drinks? Caffeine can be drying to the bowels.
      — Do you exercise daily?

      Elimination issues are tricky to figure out. I have suffered from them for most of my adult life. I have done darn near every treatment or therapy known to mankind. Lol For me, I had to work on the following to get my bowels moving; eat more cooked veggies than raw, cut out oils, drink 16 oz of fresh, pure celery juice first thing in the more followed by a warm breakfast, increase starches (starchy veggies, beans, rice, legumes), get daily exercise, and do emotional work (this made a HUGE difference for me). But that’s for me… everyone is different.

      Celery Juice Recipe
      No post on the site. It is nothing but pure organic celery, juiced. I drink 16 oz first thing in the mornings. Been doing this for 14 months now.

      I hope something I shared might help. blessings, amie sue

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