Green Juice Power
The following is an excerpt from my book; Discover Your Nutritional Style, available here.
This my basic green juice recipe, the foundation drink for all Nutritional Styles. The greens in this juice are sweetened by adding fruit, and then spiced with ginger. The base of the juice consists of light greens or veggies that contain a lot of water. Add in dark leafy greens, such as spinach, kale, chard, collards, or dandelion, for their nutrient value. Change them up according to your taste, what’s fresh at the market, and to vary your nutrition. Ditto for herbs like cilantro. If you don’t like it, try fresh parsley (preferably the flat leaf kind) or some other favorite fresh herb to add flavor, or just leave the herbs out. Instead of the apple, try a different sweet and juicy fruit, such as mango, pear, or pineapple.
If you need to watch your sugar intake, leave the fruit out. The lemon juice can be swapped for lime, but one or the other is nonnegotiable for making your juice taste like green lemonade.
Store the extra juice in a glass container in the fridge; use it within a few hours. This recipe is just your basic starting point.
Your green juice is a work in progress, just like you. Feel free to improvise, adjust, and change. If you don’t have a home juicer, make this in a blender—it will come out as a delicious green smoothie.
Ingredients
2 cucumbers with skin (peel them if not organic)
3 stalks celery
2 c spinach
5 leaves chard or kale
1 bunch cilantro
1 Granny Smith apple
1 lemon with ends removed and rind on (remove rind if not organic)
1-inch piece of ginger (I prefer more for a real kick)
Preparation
Rinse all the ingredients well. Add them to the juicer and run until the liquid is smooth. Makes about 32 ounces.
