The Best Fruit Juicing Recipes!

The health benefits of cold pressed living juice are abundantly clear and so many people around the world are joining the Living Juice revolution. So get to your local farmer's market or green grocer and buy as much fruit as you can...it's time to start juicing!

Vitality 4 Life Collection of Vegetable Juices

Vegetable juices are packed full of nutrients and are a vital addition to your raw food diet. Vitality 4 Life have put together a selection of healthy recipes to help you get the most our of your vegetable juicing.

Fine Nectarine & Orange Juice

Great for any time of day, this healthy recipe has combined specifically selected raw foods that will complement each other both in flavour and in health benefits. To get the most nutrients, it is important to use a cold press juice extractor when juicing.

Benefits of Juicing Celery and Celeriac

Juicing celery benefits weight loss and health, to effectively improve your digestion and immune system. Celery was originally used for medicinal purposes to purify the blood. No calories and high in fiber, celery juice is a stimulating tonic and a great addition to a healthy eating diet.

Celery and celeriac juice is traditionally used for asthma, constipation, fever, fluid retention, gout, headache, inflammation, insomnia, kidneys, liver, lungs, migraine, nervous problems and weight loss. Fresh celery juice has a mild diuretic effect and helps curb the craving for sweets which benefits weight loss.

Rich in magnesium and iron content, with up to 95% water, fresh celery juice provides valuable nourishment for blood cells. Juicing celery will provide a good source of potassium, which is great for a hydrated and healthy skin. A major benefit in consuming celery juice is that it also helps to regulate blood pressure. Vitamin C found in celery helps to support the immune system and is a cold fighter. Fresh celery contains cancer-fighting compounds that detoxify pollutants including cigarette smoke.

Common salt or inorganic sodium chloride is harmful to the body, whereas organic sodium in celery juice is most beneficial. Sodium is called the youth element because it removes acid from the body, reduces stiffness and loosens the muscular skeletal frame.

Celery juice is useful for people who have high acidity resulting in calcification and degenerative bones and joints. This harmful accumulation is obtained from the over-indulgence of animal protein, too many grains, refined and concentrated sugars and concentrated starches. The body can benefit from an increased consumption of celery juice which helps to eliminate calcium deposits before they accumulate and cause harm.

Drinking one or two glasses of fresh celery juice can benefit people afflicted with nervous disorders and insomnia. Celery juice is a revitalizing brain tonic, enhances memory, and is good for dizziness. Some have even discovered the sobering qualities of raw celery juice as an antidote to alcoholic indulgences.

The juice from celery root or celeriac is valued as an appetizer that stimulates digestion. Celeriac juice has an almost immediate beneficial effect on the body when it is sipped. It is amazing how much juice you can extract from these large, hard, dry-looking roots.

Ideal in tropical climates, celery juice is a natural coolant and protector in hot weather. A glass of organic celeriac juice will keep you dry and comfortable, while those around you perspire. Great if you enjoy a vigorous workout like I do, celery juice can be used as a natural sports drink to replace valuable fluid and mineral loss due to sweating.

The higher the chlorophyll content, the darker is the celery. Use the stalks and green leaves of celery, which contain both sodium and insulin. Only juice firm celery stalks with fresh leaves. Celery can add a refreshing but salty taste to your juice recipes and is best juiced with carrots or apples.

The health benefits of juicing celery and celeriac are enormous. Introducing celery juice into your daily diet can not only improve long term health but also encourage weight loss. So get out your juicer and start juicing celery today!

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Pre-Packed Juice, is it Good for You?

Processed bottled juice on supermarket shelves comes in all forms – plastic or glass bottles, canned, refrigerated cartons or vacuum packed and can last up to 2 years.

The fruit processing industry uses powerful yet the same low speed extraction process as the cold press juicers to extract the maximum yield of juice from the fruit.

Once cold pressed, fresh fruit juice is quickly pasteurised or heat treated at around 90?C. This heating process has been shown to destroy certain nutrients and changes the pH from alkaline to acid. Most antioxidants are heat sensitive and can reduce by 15% each time a juice is heated.

By the time the juice is packed and sold in the supermarket or deli it may have been heated at 2 or 3 locations to get in the final bottle and the long term storage of pasteurised juice leads to a further breakdown of nutrients over time.

If you look closely at the ingredients, you will see that a lot of juice companies use juice concentrates to save costs, but regardless of whether the juice is made from concentrate or not, the alkaline properties and naturally occurring nutrients are greatly diminished. These juice concentrates are often imported and typically involve hours of heating to remove the water, leaving little nutritional value behind.

Hugh Moran is a qualified Naturopath with 5 years clinical experience. His background is in the food and health food industries.

Hugh comes from a family that was in the fruit processing industry for 32 years and he has also worked extensively as a health foods retailer.

He has a life long passion for health and wellbeing and you can visit Hugh's detox blog for great health recipes and healthful tips

Make your own V8 Juice!

3-4 Tomatoes - a great alkalizer when consumed without sugars or starches!

2 Carrots - supports the immune system!

½ Beetroot - a great blood builder!

1 Stalk of Celery - to improve digestion!

½ Red Capsicum - good for skin, hair & nails!

¼ cup Cucumber (or 1 Lebanese cucumber) - a natural diuretic

2 Apples - to aid liver function improve taste!

Pinch of Parsley - high in minerals including potassium!

For more great health recipes, visit our healthy recipes page and start your healthy eating plan today!

Article written by Hugh Moran - Resident Naturopath at Vitality 4 Life.

The information on the properties of living juice was taken from Dr. Norman Walker’s book - Fresh Vegetable & Fruit Juices RRP $20.