A few months ago, after reading up on the many benefits of consuming fresh fruit and vegetable juices, I purchased the cheapest respectable juicer I could find: the Breville Compact Juice Fountain. Since then, I’ve been *meaning* to try out some green juice concoctions, those enzyme and nutrient rich beverages so highly revered by the raw food movement. According to many, green juice is where it’s at. I’ve even heard it described as “life-changing.” But, I have to admit that I was so enthralled with making frothy fresh OJ and grapefruit juice in the morning that I didn’t get around to attempting the green stuff until today. This was my loss. Green juice is amazing. I have had unusually high energy all day long, for no other explicable reason. Coincidence? Perhaps, but I’m hooked nonetheless.
By the way, note that once you begin drinking fresh juices, you will find it hard to return to the pasteurized, bottled varieties (i.e., essentially any juice you buy at the grocery store or in a bottle or carton). First of all, fresh juices just taste a million times better. But more importantly, pasteurization destroys the enzymes in fresh juice, which is what makes it so healthful. These enzymes detox and cleanse at the cellular level, and they are key for digestion. Also, juicing the greens removes the fiber, which allows for easier and faster absorption of nutrients.
I made this from what I had on hand; I added in the apple, ginger, lemon, etc. to spice it up and give it a more palatable lemonade-y taste. The result was somewhere in the neighborhood of 16 ounces of juice.
Ingredients (use organic if possible!):
- about 7 or 8 stalks of kale
- one carrot
- 1/2 cucumber
- 1 honey crisp apple
- 1 lemon
- tiny chunk of ginger (like half the size of my pinky nail)
To make:
- Throw it all in your juicer according to directions and behold the frothy green glory. Consume immediately.
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