Homemade Healing Juices

Source: Pixabay Essential vitamins and minerals are key to good health, and fresh fruit and vegetables have the power to heal both mind and body. They can refresh, cleanse, improve reflexes and help you build a clear mind and a healthy spirit. We have compiled a list of our favourite health-giving juices, which may help you to win big and master your favourite online pokies!

Happy Breakfast Juice

Ingredients:

• 6 medium carrots
• 1 orange peeled
• ½ inch piece of fresh ginger
• ½ inch piece of fresh turmeric
• Pinch cayenne

Instructions:

• Wash and chop into pieces.
• Add to juicer/blender and process.
• Best if consumed within 15-minutes but can refrigerate up to 24-hours for best nutritional benefits. The juice will last up to 3 days in the refrigerator.

Both oranges and carrots are well-known as a ‘perfect’ power food. They contain a huge range of health-giving and healing vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients. For example, they are very high in Vitamins C, A, B-complex, as well as containing folate, beta carotene and lutein. Important minerals, contained in oranges, include magnesium, calcium, iron and potassium. Oranges have been used in cancer prevention treatments, as well as for lowering high blood pressure. They are widely used in fighting off viral infections, relieving constipation and preventing kidney stones. Oranges also contain a significant amount of glutathione, which is critical for healthy lung and eye functionality. Finally, they are a great aim in treating respiratory problems, such as asthma and bronchitis.

Purple Power Juice

Ingredients:

• ¼ medium red cabbage, sliced
• 1 large cucumber, peeled and cut into chunks
• 1 cup fresh blueberries
• 1 large apple, cut into eighths
• Ice cubes (optional)

Instructions:

• Wash and chop into pieces.
• Add to juicer/blender and process.
• Best if consumed within 15-minutes but can refrigerate up to 24-hours for best nutritional benefits. The juice will last up to 3 days in the refrigerator.

Blueberries are well-known as an amazing superfood. They can help you lower your cholesterol, reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer, they are great for strengthening your sight and, as a bonus, they can even put you in a better mood! Blueberries are the nature’s antioxidant. They are also packed with phytoflavinoids, high in potassium and vitamin C. This makes them the first choices of nutritionists and doctors world-wide. They are also an anti-inflammatory and taste delicious in this juice. (Tip: Try using frozen blueberries instead of fresh, they are just as good!)

Green Goddess Juice

Source: Ottawa Parenting Times Ingredients:

• 1 bunch of celery
• 1/4 cup of water

Instructions:

• Wash and chop into pieces.
• Add to juicer/blender and process.
• Best if consumed within 15-minutes but can refrigerate up to 24-hours for best nutritional benefits. The juice will last up to 3 days in the refrigerator.

Celery is a common vegetable, and a humble one, but it’s one of nature’s superfoods. Celery juice is great for improving chronic acid reflux, it can help to fight autoimmune diseases, helps to restore adrenals and it even can help to neutralise and flush toxins out of the liver. It can help to lower inflammation and aid digestion, too.

Farmers’ Market Juice

Ingredients:

• 6 fresh strawberries, hulled
• 1 large cucumber, peeled and cut into chunks
• 1 large red apple, cut into eighths
• 2 medium carrots, peeled
• Ice (optional)

Instructions:

• Wash and chop into pieces.
• Add to juicer/blender and process.
• Best if consumed within 15-minutes but can refrigerate up to 24-hours for best nutritional benefits. The juice will last up to 3 days in the refrigerator.

Strawberries are a delicious fruit, favoured by many people. However, it’s also a nutritional powerhouse, and is quite rightly thought of as ‘super-food’. Strawberries are packed with vitamins A, B and E, and minerals such as iron, zinc and manganese. They are packed with antioxidants, which boost the body’s ability to rebuild, repair and rejuvenate. Strawberries are also high in anti-inflammatory phenols. This makes them an excellent food for people struggling with asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, restless leg syndrome, lupus and many other illnesses. Source: Inspired taste

Joyful Summer Juice

Ingredients:

• 1 medium orange, peeled and quartered
• 3 kale leaves
• 1 medium apple, cut into wedges
• 1 medium carrot, peeled
• 1 large beet, peeled and cut into wedges
• 1 one-inch piece peeled fresh ginger
• Ice cubes (optional)

Instructions:

• Wash and chop into pieces.
• Add to juicer/blender and process.
• Best if consumed within 15-minutes but can refrigerate up to 24-hours for best nutritional benefits. The juice will last up to 3 days in the refrigerator.

Beetroots are a super-food, packed with essential nutrients, fibre, folate, vitamin C and important minerals such as manganese, potassium and iron. Both beetroots and their juice have long been associated with wide-ranging health benefits, such as improved blood circulation, lowering blood pressing and increasing sports performance. This is because this amazing vegetable contains a high amount of inorganic nitrates. In combination with apples, carrots and healthful kale, this vegetable truly shines in a delicious and healing juice.