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6 Tasty and Nutritious Juice Ideas

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If you are concerned about your health, excessive weight or a particular health problem, have you tried juicing? The first obvious benefit of juices is that they are healthy. But they have many other benefits too.

E.g. they are easy to make. You don’t have to cook anything and even don’t need a lot of prepping. You’ll just need a juicer. If its feeding chute is wide enough, you don’t even have to cut the produce – you can throw them in as they are. And once your juicing is over, you’ll have to wash the juicer’s parts that come in contact with your produce so as to eliminate the risk of germ buildup and contamination of juice. That’s it.

Another benefit of juices is that they are tasty. This means that you get health without compromising taste. Here are a few such tasty and nutritious juice ideas.

1. Pure Green Juice

As the name suggests, this juice is mainly made of green ingredients. These have a lot of water in them; so this juice will keep you well-hydrated, along with offering a big dose of vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Thus, although it’s perfect for any season, it’s especially refreshing during the hot summer season.

You’ll need:

  • 1 handful of spinach leaves
  • ½ large cucumber
  • 3 stalks of celery
  • 1 medium pear
  • 1 medium green apple
  • 1 small handful of ice

To get the much-required sweetness and fruity flavor, you can add pear and green apple, and make it super tasty. You can juice wheatgrass with other ingredients; but if it’s not possible, you can add wheatgrass powder. After juicing all the ingredients, pour the juice over ice and enjoy!

2. Zingy Fruit Juice

If you crave sweets, eating (or drinking the juice of) fruits is always a better idea than munching chocolates, donuts and muffins. And if you enjoy a spicy flavor added to fruit juice, this recipe will give you what you want because it’s added with red chili and ginger for that spicy zing. If you don’t want it, you can just cut down on the spices and enjoy the juice made only of fruit. Or you can even add dry ginger powder. Adding ginger and chili is advisable because they come with their own sets of health benefits.

You can make this juice with:

  • 1 big or 2 medium apples
  • ½ pineapple
  • ½ mango
  • 2 tomatoes
  • ½ red chili
  • ½ inch raw ginger

This juice needs a bit of preparation. You’ll have to peel the pineapple and lime. Remember to remove all the seeds from the chili and remove the stone from the mango. To make this juice even more nutritious and tasty, you can even add carrots to it. Also, after the juice is ready, you can pour it over a handful of ice and enjoy the super-cool juice.

tasty and nutritious juice ideas

3. Juice for Blood Pressure

You may know that majority of berries and beets are beneficial for blood pressure patients and even for those who haven’t yet developed it in order to reduce the chances of developing it. This juice is an excellent mix of health and taste, because the earthiness of beets is balanced by various types of berries to improve the taste and take benefit of the blood pressure reducing and antioxidant properties of both the types of foods.

You can make this juice with:

  • 3 small beets
  • 1 large handful of grapes
  • 1 cup of strawberries
  • 1 cup of blueberries
  • 2 apples

Apples add their flavor and healthful properties to this juice to make it further tasty and healthy. You can pour it over ice and drink it cool.

4. Fruit-Veggie Delight

To take benefit of fruits and veggies at the same time, this tasty juice is extremely helpful. It softens the earthiness of veggies with the sweetness of fruits.

Here’s what you’ll need:

  • 1 pear
  • 1 golden apple
  • 1 lime
  • ¼ pineapple
  • 1 ripe banana
  • 4 kale leaves
  • ¼ cucumber
  • 1-2 cm broccoli stem
  • 2 large handfuls of spinach leaves

You’ll need a bit of preparation for this juice too because you’ll have to peel the lime. But if you don’t want the lime dash, you can reduce it to half or even skip it. But of course, adding it is always beneficial – both for taste as well as health.

5. Minty Fruit Juice

When the sweetness of fruits is added with the refreshing flavor of mint, it’s a feast for your taste buds and not to mention to your health. This juice is a creative recipe that brings together the goodness of both these types of produce and offers you the desired nutrition.

These are the ingredients you’ll need:

  • 2 oranges
  • 1 medium apple
  • 2 kiwis
  • ¼ lemon
  • 3 carrots
  • 4 sprigs of fresh mint
  • ½ inch ginger

You’ll have to peel oranges and lemon to reduce bitterness. Carrots will add an extra dash of nutrition.

6. Detox Juice

Among many health benefits offered by juices, detoxification is a major one. We can’t ‘eat’ a lot of fruits or vegetables at a time. But juices make it easy because we can drink the juice of multiple fruits and veggies at a time and can have the detox effect and other health benefits of juices. Here’s such a great detox juice recipe which you should certainly try.

You’ll need:

  • 3 apples
  • 1 avocado
  • 2-3 pieces of beets
  • ½ cucumber
  • 1 carrot
  • ¼ yellow bell pepper
  • ½ lemon
  • 1-2 stalks of celery

You can juice all the ingredients other than avocado. Then you can blend the flesh of avocado and a couple of ice cubes together. Add this to the juice and blend again, and your juice will become smooth and creamy.

You may not believe, but when your stomach is full with these healthy juices, you won’t crave unhealthy foods and you’ll get rid of the worries about your health. Try them now!