Best Vegetable Juice Recipes

You have to eat your veggies.  Moms recite this immortal phrase all across the country every day to their kids.  Some of us could use a friend looking over our shoulder to motivate (or threaten) us to do the same.  Of course, we’re all grown up now and we know that vegetables are important to stay healthy – yet, it’s still hard to commit.

But that’s why you got a vegetable juicer, right?  It sure does save the effort of munching on raw vegetables and coping with the bland taste.  It also saves the time of having to prepare your vegetables to counteract that tough bland taste so you can [somewhat] enjoy them.  In the end, you get around the hassle by switching to the next best thing – fruit juicer recipes.  Not that big of a problem, so long as you be careful before crossing over to fruit juicing.

There are reasons you should be juicing vegetables more than fruits.  The biggest reason is the high amount of sugar in fruits.  Most fruit juicer recipes may call for a wide variety of fruits, and the amount of sugar packed into them can deceitfully add up in one glass.  Couple that with other fruits you may snack on throughout the day, in addition to any other sugary junk foods you may consume, and you are asking for trouble.  You will definitely be getting a lot of nutrients, but you will also be getting a lot of sugar, which is especially bad if you are vegetable juicing for weight loss.

Another reason is that you most likely eat fruits in their raw state anyway.  In fact, it is recommended that you eat fruits whole as to get the roughage that will help maintain healthy digestion.  How often do you eat raw vegetables though?  Some may eat carrots or celery, but what about broccoli or brussel sprouts?  Usually, you would cook those, but heat from cooking will start to kill the vital nutrients inside.

This isn’t to say that you should never use fruit in juicer recipes or never cook your food.  But be sure to mix it up a little.  Eat some fruits as snacks and drink a glass of vegetable juice for dinner.  Make a hearty salad comprised of both raw vegetables and fruits.  When juicing, make a glass of vegetable juice one day, fruit juice the next, then a hybrid the following day.  Be creative.

It can be hard to strictly drink vegetable juice all the time.  Here are some of the best vegetable juice recipes:

V8 Vegetable Juice Recipe

In my previous post, I compared vegetable juicer recipes to store-bought juice.  V8 is a popular brand and while not as good as juicing your own produce, it’s still one of the better options available at your grocery store.  This recipe is a good way to duplicate it yourself.

  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 celery stalk
  • 2 leaves of lettuce
  • 1 handful of spinach
  • 1/2 handful of parsley

Veggie Kick Juicer Recipe

  • 3 carrots
  • 1 beet
  • 1/2 inch fresh ginger
  • 1/2 lemon
  • 1 clove of garlic

Super Simple V8 Juice

  • 3 carrots
  • 1 tomato
  • handful of spinach

Body Cleansing Juicer Recipe

  • 2 celery stalks
  • handful of kale
  • handful of spinach
  • handful of parsley
  • 1 oz. wheatgrass juice

Green Hydrator

  • 1 celery stalk
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 green pepper
  • 2 handfuls of spinach

Sweet Vegetable Juice Recipe

A little on the sweeter side, but not that bad in sugar content

  • 3 carrots
  • 2 red peppers
  • 1 beet

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September 16, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Juicing Recipes, Vegetable Juicing Basics

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