Juice On!
bit much on it’s own, but cut with sweeter fruits and vegetables like
apple and carrot, its flavor is pretty innocuous.
Beet juice is naturally high in iron, which helps encourage
mitochondrial processes and can give you a boost of energy. This
makes beet juice especially good for women, who often have issues
caused by low iron. It’s also a very potent liver tonic. People who
by Rachel Mulder
have liver issues or drink alcohol frequentlyby Kent Cisar juice.
should try beet
maha, keeping true to it’s tradition of being about five years Be careful how much you ingest though, beet juice is so potent
behind on the national trend bandwagon, is now semithat more than four ounces at a time could cause some intestinal
health conscious. Restaurants like Kitchen Table and The Grey
distress. Personally, beet juice is one of my favorite flavors, but if it’s
Plume have brought a focus to fresh, local produce and the beauty
not your thing, blending it with apple, ginger, and lemon juice is
and color it can bring to a meal.
great.
Though eating your vegetables is just oh so wonderful and
Kale juice is high in antioxidants and like beet juice, detoxifies
important, it is not the only way to ingest them. Many people
and cleans the liver. For this reason, I would advise keeping your
have taken to juicing their produce as a quick and flavorful way of
kale intake to less than four ounces. If you want to know what kale
taking in a lot of vegetables in a short amount of time. They’re even tastes like, just read any article published on any food blog for the
using fresh fruit and vegetable juices in cocktails at some of the
past three years.
nicer drink spots in town, like Boiler Room and The Berry & Rye.
Celery and cucumber juices are full of antioxidants and
Particularly helpful for those that want to justify your drinking.
electrolytes, as well as a strong amount of vitamins A, C and K
making them good for your eyes. They are both very hydrating
and detoxifying, and add bulk to any juice. They have a very nice,
“Many people have taken
subtle flavor and even if you don’t like their taste when ingested
to juicing their produce as a quick
traditionally, the juice is slightly sweet and very pleasant.
Wheatgrass juice might be the ‘Elixir of Life’ that the Sorcerer’s
and flavorful way of taking in a lot
Stone was supposed to create. In my years working at Jane’s
of vegetables in a short amount
Health Market, I’ve had hundreds of people try wheatgrass for
the first time and come back saying how good it made them feel.
of time.”
I’ve seen people use it to treat cancer, the flu, lethargy, mental
Fresh fruit and vegetable juice contains somewhere near 95% of
fogginess, gastrointestinal issues and depression. The flavor isn’t
the super-concentrated enzymes and vitamins necessary for human
the most appealing, but if you can do a shot of whiskey, I’m sure
beings to thrive. Taking pills and supplements is fine, but unless
you can handle a shot of wheatgrass. It’s also pairs nicely with fresh
they are whole food derived vitamins, they aren’t bioavailable and
pineapple juice.
the body can only process and utilize a percentage of the dose.
A normal serving size of one ounce, wheatgrass should be taken
The body nat