Fruit and vegetable juices contain many vitamins and minerals. Consuming fresh juices will give you extra energy, make your skin and hair look beautiful, and provide all the benefits of eating juices and vegetables in one glass. It's better to make your own juices than to buy them packaged, because packaged juices will lose their nutritional potential over time. Read this guide to learn how to make your own juice or without using a juicer.
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Method 1 of 3: Selecting the Ingredients for the Juice
Step 1. Think beyond apples
You may often see the same types of juice on the shelves in stores: apples, grapes, oranges, and cranberries. They are the most popular packaged juices, but all fruits are actually good candidates for juice.
- Try juicing from kiwi, strawberry, pomegranate, mango, papaya, apricot, plum, peach and more. Don't be limited by seeds; all the seeds will be separated from the juice.
- Choose fruit that is in season in your area. Fruit in season, whether grown hydroponically or naturally, is good and healthy for you. These fruits have more vitamins and are usually tastier. Shopping at the market is a great way to find seasonal fresh fruit growing in your area.
- Choose organic fruit. When you make fruit juices that are sprayed with pesticides and other chemicals, you are taking these substances into your body. Choose organic fruit at the market or the organic fruit section of the store.
- Bananas can clog your juicer, so try a different fruit.
Step 2. Get creative with vegetables
For some people, vegetables, not fruit, are the basis for drinking their juices. Vegetables are low in sugar, so their juices don't raise your blood sugar and don't make you gain weight like fruit juices do. Any vegetables that you can eat raw can also be consumed as juice.
- Even if you don't like eating vegetables, you may prefer them in juice form. Vegetable juices usually taste better than whole vegetables. Try spinach, kale, broccoli, and other leafy greens.
- Juicing a combination of vegetables and fruit results in a drink that is sweet and doesn't taste like vegetables at all. Some vegetables such as carrots and red peppers have a delicious natural sweetness.
- Don't juice vegetables that you can't eat raw. Potatoes, squash, and other vegetables that have to be cooked are not good candidates for juicing.
Step 3. Add herbs, seeds and nuts to the juice
Adding herbs to the juice will create an interesting taste and provide additional nutrition. The water content in seeds and nuts will turn into a milky substance that gives juices a creamier taste and texture.
- Try adding a refreshing flavor to the juice by adding mint, lemon balm, or rosemary. If you can make it into tea, you can add it to juice. Just make sure you use fresh herbs, as dried herbs cannot be added to juice.
- Wheat grass is a popular herb among juice lovers. But you have to be careful, because the long texture can damage and clog conventional juice machines.
- Cashews, almonds, flaxseed, sunflower seeds, and other seeds and nuts are all good choices for juicing. Use nuts and seeds that have been shelled.
Method 2 of 3: Making Juice with a Juicer or Blender
Step 1. Prepare the ingredients for juicing
Start by washing the ingredients to be juiced thoroughly. Next, remove any parts that are too coarse for your juicer or blender. In most cases, juicers have instructions on what to put in them. You should prepare the ingredients this way so they don't clog the juicer, unless you have the best juicers on the market:
- Peel the oranges. Thick orange and grapefruit peels cannot be processed by a juicer, and will also damage the blender.
- The center of the apple.
- Remove seeds from fruits such as peaches, plums, and mangoes.
- Remove the rough skin from fruits such as pineapples.
- Remove the skin from the nuts.
Step 2. Cut the ingredients into small pieces
Most juicers require the fruit and vegetables you use to be cut into small pieces so they will fit in the juicer. Follow your machine's instructions to determine how small you should cut the ingredients. If you are using a blender, chop the ingredients into 1-2 pieces.
Step 3. Process the ingredients with your juicer
Place the ingredients in the juicer and follow the machine's instructions for juicing. Make sure not to overfill the appliance with more fruits and vegetables than it can hold. The juice will collect in a different container than the fiber.
- Remove the fiber when you are done juicing.
- When the juice and fruit dries in the juicer, it is very difficult to clean them. It is best to wash the machine for at least 1 hour after use, so that the machine will be ready for the next use.
Step 4. If you don't have a juicer, process the ingredients in your blender
Blend the pieces of ingredients properly until the texture is smooth and has no lumps. Place a sieve or a piece of cloth over the container. Pour the resulting blender into a sieve to separate the fibers from the juice, which will drip into the container. Discard the remaining pulp and drink your juice.
- You can add a little water to the blender if the ingredients are difficult to blend.
- If you are blending the nuts into juice, process the nuts first with water, then add the rest of the ingredients, then continue blending.
Step 5. Enjoy your juice
You can drink it straight or store it in the refrigerator for a few days. Remember that fresh juice has the best nutritional benefits, so if possible, juice it every day. In addition, you can use the juice you make to make sorbets or ice pops, or as a base for soups.
Method 3 of 3: Popular Juice Recipes
Step 1. Green power juice
This juice is good to consume every day because it provides the best energy and health. This juice contains nutritious green vegetables that produce a beautiful green juice. The addition of fruit will sweeten the juice so that you will barely taste the vegetables in it. Ingredients:
- 1 medium cucumber
- 1/2 bunch kale
- 1 pear, cut into pieces
- 1 tablespoon mashed ginger
- 3 stalks of celery
Step 2. Tropical fruit juice
This juice is an amazing combination of mango and other tropical fruits mixed with carrots. This juice is high in vitamin A which is important for healthy eyes and skin. Here are the ingredients you'll need:
- 1 orange, peeled
- 1 mango, peeled and chopped.
- 1 large pineapple, peeled
- 4 strawberries
- 2 carrots
Step 3. Bitsugar berry juice
This bright red juice is a great choice for an ice lolly or sorbet. This juice has a beautiful red color and exudes the freshness of berries with the health of bit sugar. Make a juice from these ingredients:
- 2 cups strawberries
- 2 cups raspberries
- 1 bit sugar, peeled
