Chlorophyll green juice for today

[happyseal]

My green juice for today...to be honest I don’t count the calories for the juice. But it is a tone of produce...

My recipe, just toss everything green on the juicer, haha.

Anyways, today I’m using:

A whole cucumber

2 ribs/stalks of celery

A handful of spinach

Half a spring greens head

Half a cabbage

1 fennel head

1 green pepper

3/4 lemon

1/2 lime

An inch of ginger

The stalk of two pak choi

1 package of Salad minigreens

A little bit of fresh coriander and mint

I juiced everything and it yielded about 1.300L. Then I took a pint and blended with 2 apples and the same for my partner. The juices apples game too much sugar and it’s best to have the apples with its fibre.

[IndigoBlue61]

Is this a juice or just a blend, like a smoothie? I thought juicers left all the pulp behind? And can I ask how many servings this makes?

I hope you enjoyed it. 😊

[happyseal Restart Dec 2023]

This is both actually.

I juices the veggies and then blended the veggie juice with the fruit. Fruit juice has the fructose without the pulp, which is not exactly healthy.

The juicer leaves some pulp but not a lot. Most of the juice is separated from the fibre.

So all of the veggies and apples made three pints. Which is a lot. Is more like a day worth juice.

[IndigoBlue61 in reply to happyseal]

A minor word of caution, current NHS recommendations (nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/ ) suggest we only consume up to 150ml per day . . .

“Juices, smoothies and 5 A Day

Fruit and vegetable juices and smoothies contain a variety of vitamins and minerals.

A 150ml glass of unsweetened fruit juice, vegetable juice or smoothie can count as a maximum of 1 portion of your recommended 5 daily portions of fruit and vegetables.

In other words, limit the amount of fruit juice, vegetable juice or smoothie you have to no more than a combined total of 150ml a day (1 small glass).

Have other types of fruit and vegetables for the other 4 (or more) portions.

This is because the sugars in fruit and vegetables are released when they're juiced or blended, making them "free sugars".

I can’t help but think you could have made a gorgeous salad with all that yummy greenery 😊