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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

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.

Spinach Nutritional Value

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

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.

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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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)
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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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Fresh RAW V8 Juice Recipe

Many people shun away from eating vegetables, especially the children.

It is alarming to know that most chronic illnesses today are caused by improper diet. But simply saying “eat more vegetables” is not enough. One thing that you can do is to make vegetable juice every day or a couple of times a week. Juices are popular among children, and they especially love the sweet taste of fruit juice. However, that is not to say that they cannot develop a taste for more savory combinations.

If you like V8 juice, you are certainly not alone. Unfortunately, the stuff that you buy in the supermarket in cans and plastic bottles is loaded with salt and is certainly not freshly made, which means it has the live enzymes and a lot of other nutrients cooked right out of it.

However, you can make your own version of V8 by experimenting with the following recipe:

Fresh Raw V8 Juice Recipe

Juice all the vegetables using your juicer, and enjoy as is, chilled, or with ice. If you like a more tangy taste, add some chili pepper and/or salt (optional).

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3 large tomatoes
3 stalks celery
5 carrots (medium sized)
1 small beet
1/4 head fresh cabbage
1-2 bell pepper (red or green, or both)
2 cups spinach
2-3 kale leaves
1/4 sweet onion
1/2 clove garlic (optional)

This recipe is for raw juice, with all the ingredients in their raw state – with all the live enzymes and nutrients. However, because it’s all-raw, it will taste differently from the “real thing”. The reason being the real V8 is cooked plus has some other added ingredients to make it taste certain way.

If you are looking for a taste more resembling the store-bought recipe, you can optionally substitute half or all of your tomatoes with either stewed tomatoes or tomato sauce for pasta (thanks Evan for the tip!)

Read more on this Juicer Reviews, Recipes and Advice blog. Some of my favorite recipes include Juicer Recipe for Green Juice Cocktail, 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 juicer: 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor.