Spinach Recipes For Major Health Benefits: How To Make Fresh Spinach Juice Recipes

Spinach is considered by many a powerhouse of nutrition.

It’s just amazing how many “good for you” nutrients it contains!

That explains why your mother was nagging you to eat your spinach, even if you hated it as a child.

Of course many adults are not crazy about spinach either.

So today, I encourage you to try some spinach juice recipes.

These are excellent to help you and your kids eat spinach without nagging!

The Benefits of Spinach

Spinach has been cultivated in many parts of the world for hundreds of years, not just as a food source, but also as an important medicinal plant in many traditional systems of medicine.

Benefits of spinach juice cannot be overestimated. In the past it has often been regarded as a plant with abilities to restore energy, increase vitality, and improve the quality of the blood.

The main reason for this is that spinach nutrition provides twice as much iron as most other greens.

Other nutrients it contains include calcium, magnesium, potassium, vitamin A, the B-complex vitamins, Folic acid, and vitamin C. Also, spinach, like other greens that contain chlorophyll and carotene, is a remarkable protector against various diseases, including cancer, anemia, digestive problems, skin problems, as well as acting as a mild laxative.

The calcium content in spinach and other dark leafy greens help strengthen bones. Women who are worried about osteoporosis should consume spinach because it is a rich source of calcium and vitamin K.

Spinach’s secret weapon, lutein, makes it one of the best foods in the world in the prevention of cataracts, as well as related macular degeneration.

In fact, when compared calorie for calorie to other vegetables, nothing is as nutrient dense as spinach, while also being very low in calories.

The good thing is that once you learn how to prepare spinach juice recipes (or spinach smoothie recipes), you’ll be consuming lots of it and it won’t matter anymore if you or your picky-eaters at home don’t enjoy munching on spinach salad!

Just adding a few spinach leaves to a your juice recipe, is so easy, tastes delicious, and it’s also incredibly good for you!

Spinach photo by marymactavish

So, how do you prepare spinach juice?

Spinach recipes for juicing, as in the case in most other greens, usually include a variety of other fruits and veggies, the reason being that juicing spinach by itself will produce juice that will be way too potent for most people to drink with pleasure.

Generally speaking, single gear juicers or twin gear juicers will do a great job with any type of greens. These juice extractors will give you a higher yield, preserving all the nutrition, thanks to lower heat production during the juicing process.

However, even if you have a centrifugal juicer you can make green juice. Here is how to go about it:

First, when buying fresh spinach it should be dark green, fresh-looking, and free from any evidence of decay. Slightly wilted spinach can be revived to freshness by dipping it in cold water.

To prepare spinach for juicing, wash it under running water. If using non organic spinach, you may want to soak or spray it with a biodegradable wash, then rinse. Use a salad spinner to dry.

The leaves can be used as is. You don’t need to remove the stalks, as you would for a salad.

Boll up springs of spinach in your hand and then feed into the juicer.

Introduce them one by one into the feeding chute of the centrifugal juicer, together with harder produce, such as a carrots, celery, apple, pear, etc.

That’s basically all there is to it!

All that remains to be done is to capture the nutrient-rich juice in a glass or in the juicing machine’s container, and drink to your health!

Spinach Recipes

Here are a few recipes for you to try!

Spinach juice on its own is quite strong, so I encourage you to experiment mixing it with other juices, such as carrot, tomato, apple.

Spinach-Carrot
5 carrots
1 cup spinach

Spinach-Tomato
1 cup spinach
4 tomatoes, quartered

Spinach-Beet-Carrot
1/2 beet with top
3 carrots
1/2 cup spinach

Spinach-Carrot-Apple-Cucumber
4 to 5 medium carrots
1 apple
a piece of cucumber
1 cup spinach

Drink immediately for a great nutrient-boost!

One caveat: Because of the high oxalic acid content of spinach, it is a good idea to keep your intake down to once or twice a week. Also, if you have any health issues such as kidney stones, it’s best to avoid spinach altogether. If you have any questions or concerns, speak to your doctor or nutritionist before introducing any changes to your diet.

Now that you know how to make basic spinach recipes, you can experiment with other variations on this theme.

Read more juice recipes on my blog.

Submit a Juice Recipe

If you have a favorite recipe, why not submit it here in the comment section for others to enjoy too!

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Jay Kordich’s Juice Recipe: The HIGHEST Nutritious Tonic! (top 5 shown)

Jay Kordich is by many considered to be the father of juicing.

He is also the man behind the Juiceman® name.

His story is truly inspiring.

He has been juicing for over fifty years. It has become a way of life.

His commitment to juicing started over forty years ago when he discovered the connection between diet and health, and realized that by increasing our consumption of fresh fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes (and limiting the consumption of meat and dairy products), we can help prevent many chronic ailments and premature aging.

He was born in 1923 just outside San Diego, California. When he was 25, Jay was diagnosed with a serious illness and was told he may not have long to live. After reviewing all the treatments available, he left California and traveled to New York City to see Dr. Max Gerson who was treating terminally ill patients with fresh raw juices and healthy cleansing diets. Jay became his patient and immediately began a regimen of large doses of raw carrot/apple juice. It wasn’t long before Jay’s health was restored and the direction of his life was changed forever.

From a star athlete to surviving a life-threatening illness, all by the age of 26, Jay soon decided he wanted to spread the word of fresh juices and eating a healthy diet. For the next 40 years Jay took his message to anyone who would listen, from county fairs to large department stores to seaside juicing shops. It was his passion to teach everyone he could reach how to be healthy through the power of fresh juices.

Source: Jay Kordich’s website.

Jay certainly knows about juicing and its benefits for health!

Here is Jay Kordich’s version for the BEST veggie tonic: (for 2) 10 carrots, 6 flowers of Brussel Sprouts, 1 cup Broccoli, 1 large handful of spinach and 2 green apples. It’s a winner!

1. Broccoli (excellent in juices)

2. Spinach (excellent in juices)

3. Brussel Sprouts (excellent in juices)

4. Lima (not recommended for juicing, unless soaked overnight and then juiced with soaked seeds or nuts.)

5. Peas (great for juicing and snap peas can be juiced entirely with their pods)

6. Asparagus (great for juicing)

7. Artichoke (not recommended for juicing!) Best steamed and eaten.

8. Cauliflower (great for juicing whole)

9. Sweet Potato (great for juicing and a good substitute for carrots if allergic to carrots)

10. Carrots (fantastic for juicing and is the base for most juicing combinations)

Source: http://blog.jaykordich.com/2011/06/14/the-highest-nutritious-tonic-top-5-shown/

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Juice, What a Surprise! Join My Promotional Campaign of Freshly Made Green Juice

I’m sure you have all seen the milk commercial: “Milk/What a Surprise!”, which now has changed to “Got Milk?”

They are everywhere: on TV, in magazines, and, of course, in schools. The campaign was started in 1995 to improve milk sales by promoting the supposedly great benefits of adults drinking milk. It’s been extremely successful, thanks to skillful mix of subtle humor and celebrity pictures to convey its message. The photographs shot by Annie Leibovitz – such as this of Pete Sampras below – showed pictures of celebrities and popular stars becoming an instant hit.

Here is one example from this campaign. A picture by Annie Leibovitz, 1995. Tennis star Pete Sampras, the number-one-ranked world champion from 1993 to 1998—and seven-time Wimbledon winner—was a fan of the milk mustache ads and volunteered to be a celebrity subject.

“Milk/What a Surprise!” Pete Sampras. By Annie Leibovitz, 1995.

Does “Milk and dairy build strong bones”?

I grew up drinking cow’s milk from birth, and I still drink it in small quantities on a fairly regular basis.

However, I don’t believe it to be a health food any more.

The dairy industry is one of the most powerful industries in the U.S., earning over $50 billion and spending over $200 million annually to spread the message that dairy products nutrition is necessary for human children’s health. They’re smart enough to target mothers and kids, because they can create habits for life if a child is drinking cow’s milk at an early age.

What many experts and scientists have been pointing out for quite some time, though, is that cow milk’s large fat molecule is acid- and mucus-forming in humans; thus we are all “lactose intolerant” to one degree or another. Our grandparents, with their strong genetics, withstood it well. Unfortunately, our own children with three generations of weakened genetics, are not faring so well.

One of the most preeminent nutrition researchers in the world, Colin T. Campbell, PhD, conducted the most comprehensive, longitudinal research study in history, known as the Oxford-Cornell China Project. Published in 2004, The China Study research dietary habits and disease rates in 6,500 adults in China over almost 30 years. The study presented massive evidence that casein (the protein in milk) is linked to high rates of disease when consumed at a rate of 20% of the diet, which is the norm in the U.S.

Campbell documents extremely low rates of the same diseases in population eating below 5% animal protein. The protein in all the studies, animal and human, was casein. Eight thousand statistically significant correlations resulted from this study. (“Statistically significant” means the likelihood the finding is due to chance is less than 5 percent.) These findings definitively decimate average American mothers’ nutrition beliefs that feeding their children dairy products will build strong bones and lead to good health.

The fact is this: Baby humans need human breast milk until about 18 months of age, when they start producing digestive enzymes to break down solid food). Only baby cows need cow milk. Nothing can substitute human breast milk for infants 0-18 months. And if breastfeeding is impossible, some experts suggest, that the better alternative may be raw goat milk (and definitely not soy milk).

But what about calcium, you may ask?

If you are worried about the calcium, you should not be. Get your calcium from leafy greens, as the dairy products nutrition is bioavailable to cows but not humans.

Read more on Dairy Products Nutrition here.

Juice, What a Surprise!

So, here is my response to that campaign.
Well, while I am not totally against milk (although there are many valid arguments against drinking milk), I feel that not enough emphasis is given to a much healthier alternative: fresh raw juice, especially GREEN JUICE.

First I considered taking picture of myself with a green juice mustache, but I am not a celebrity.

That’s when I thought about Mona Lisa.

Not sure if she was a milk drinker or not, but I hope she wouldn’t mind.

I decided to unscrupulously use her image anyway for the greater good!

Green Juice, What a Surprise! Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

So, if you are willing to try a great juicing recipe for green vegetables and kale that will give you lots of energy, here it is. This is a recipe for a delicious green juice with apples and lemon:

Simplified version:

1 head romaine lettuce or celery
5-6 leaves of kale (you can add some other greens too, such as spinach, dandelion, or parsley)
1-2 apples or pears (green apples are less sweet, more tart)
1 lemon (not peeled)

Optional ingredients – be creative:
1 cucumber
1 cup of spinach leaves
1/4 to 1/2 ripe Hawaiian papaya
1 handful of cilantro or parsley
1 handful of fennel (stalk can be used too)

You may also like to add some beets or carrots, but then of course it will no longer be a green juice. Some people like to add small slice of garlic and/or ginger.

Drink to your health and boost your immune system!

Read more about benefits of juicing and health cleanse juicing recipes on this Juicer Advice and Juicing for Health Advice blog. Some of my favorite juicing recipes include Raw V8 Juice Recipe, Watermelon-Grape Delight and Apricot-Mango Ambrosia. If you still don’t have a juicer and are considering getting one, read my review of my favorite juicing machine Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor.

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Green Juice: Juicer Recipe for Energizing Green Vegetable Juice Cocktail

There are many variations of this green juice recipe that you may want to try – almost every book on the subject of diet and nutrition gives some version of this green cocktail.

Green juices are unbelievably good for you, so good, in fact, that we should all be drinking them daily in the morning, instead of the coffee or milk.  They are great immune system boosters.

One fundamental quality of green juice is chlorophyll, which is the product of plants turning light into energy for insects and animals to eat. Without chlorophyll, life as we know it, would not exist.

Some of the many wonderful benefits of chlorophyll include; strong detoxifying properties including that of the liver, as well as removing unfriendly bacteria, parasites and mold.

Chlorophyll can also help improve your blood quality because of its molecular composition, which resembles that of hemoglobin. It helps increase red blood cell count and increases the circulation of oxygen throughout our blood. It also promotes the repair and growth of all tissues in the body.

Green Juice Recipes

So, if you are willing to try a great juicing recipe for green vegetables and kale that will give you lots of energy, here it is.

This is a recipe for a delicious green juice with apples and lemon:

Simple version:
1 head romaine lettuce or celery
5-6 leaves of kale (you can add some other greens too, such as spinach, dandelion, or parsley)
1-2 apples or pears (green apples are less sweet, more tart)
1 lemon (not peeled)

Additional/optional ingredients:
1 cucumber
1 cup of spinach leaves
1/4 to 1/2 ripe Hawaiian papaya (1/2 results in a sweeter juice)
1 handful of cilantro or parsley (or both for deeper green juice)
1 handful of fennel (stalk can be used too)

You may also like to add some beets or carrots, but then of course it will no longer be a green juice. Some people like to add small slice of garlic and/or ginger.

Drink to your health and boost your immune system!

Other Suggestions for Green Juice Combinations

Liver Tonic
1/2 beet with greens
3 apples

Alkaline Cleanser
1 cup of spinach
2 stalks of celery including leaves
3 carrots
1/2 cucumber
1 apple

Carrot Kale Juice
5 carrots
1 cup of kale

Mean Green Juice Recipe

With the growing popularity of the “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead” movie, many people are searching for the mean green juice recipe featured in that film.

4 stalks of celery
1 cucumber — (peel off skin)
1 ginger root — (thumb size – peel off skin)
1/2 lemon — (skin cut off)
2 green apples
6 kale leaves

Here’s a short videon by Zona, on how to make the green mean drink from the movie Fat Sick and Nearly Dead.

 

Submit a Juice Recipe or a Juicing Tip

If you have a favorite recipe or want to share a review of your favorite juicer, why not submit it here in the comment section for others to enjoy too!

And read more about the benefits of juicing on this juicing site.

Thanks!

Also, read more about benefits of juicing and health cleanse juicing recipes on this Best Juicer Recipes and Juicing for Health Advice blog. Some of my favorite juicing recipes include Fresh V8 Juice Recipe, Watermelon-Grape Delight and Apricot-Mango Ambrosia. If you still don’t have a juicer and are considering getting one, read my review of my favorite juicing machine Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor.

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