Healthy Defense Juice

Supplement your daily veggie intake with this vibrant healthy defense juice. This immune boosting juice blend is naturally sweetened and tastes great.

recipe originally published January 23, 2013

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS - Jump to any section:

1. 1. Why you will love this juice
   2. Recover from travel, workouts, and more
   3. Benefits of this vegetable juice blend
   4. Jump to recipe: Healthy Defense Juice

 

Why you'll love this juice

This bright and flavorful healthy defense juice can offset many of life's activities. 

A bad night sleep or not enough sleep. Indulgent food, or a few cocktails that have you moving slower than usual. Even too much travel.

Whatever we need a jump start from, this fresh juice can kick start a recovery. Packed with beneficial nutrients and flavor, this bright glass of sunshine is a much needed wake up each morning!

 

How we recover from travel, exercise, and more

We travel pretty often, for both business and vacation.

Travel can be exhausting in many ways. Long travel days, recycled airplane air, late nights, dinners out, celebratory cocktails and fun, fun, fun. All of this can wear you down.

When I return home from travel, I crave fresh food like avocado shiitake spring rolls, juicy grapefruit kale salad, and flavorful and satisfying Mediterranean lentil salad.

I also use my juicer to make deliciously beneficial juice like this one, that I call my healthy defense juice.

We have been juicing regularly for at least a couple decades, and we love it so much! We used a few juicers until we got serious and invested in a cold press, horizontal twin gear slow juicer. 

If you do not have a juicer but you do have a powerful high speed blender, you can chop all of these veggies small enough to blend at high speed, making a delicious smoothie with all the fiber benefits.

You can also simply eat these veggies! Make a big salad brimming with the beneficial fiber in addition to the other benefits these vegetables bring.

 

Benefits of this juice blend

First, I am not a doctor, and I would never give medical advice. This is not medical advice. Juicing does not replace any medical plan or medications. Juicing can be part of a healthy diet and a way to ensure you are getting nutrients through recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables.

I chose the first 5 ingredients of this recipe for their vitamins, minerals, and antioxidant properties, which is feel good energy for me! The other fruit ingredients were chosen for natural sweetness.

For potential benefits of these specific vegetables, let's go down the ingredient list:

• Lemon: High in vitamin C and surprisingly, fiber, lemons have many health benefits including iron absorption.
• Beets: Nitrate rich beets improve cardiovascular health in many ways.
• Broccoli: Loaded with fiber and antioxidants, the anti inflammatory veggie broccoli has many benefits.
• Carrots: Packed with immune boosting nutrients, carrots are my favorite veggie that I eat every day.
• Garlic: My favorite nutritional powerhouse! See these garlic recipes, and specifically this garlic apple juice recipe for beneficial information including how many garlic cloves a day is ideal.
• Apple cider vinegar has many benefits. My favorite is from my doctor, who says that adding a tablespoon of vinegar to a glass of water and drinking it before eating can reduce the glycemic impact of a carb heavy meal.

If you are also interested in increasing iron, try my favorite iron rich bar.

 

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Yield: 2 servings

Healthy Defense Juice

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Supplement your daily veggie intake with this vibrant healthy defense juice. This immune boosting juice blend is naturally sweetened and tastes great.

Prep Time 7 minutes

Total Time 7 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cloves garlic, peeled
• 2 lemons, peeled and seeded
• 2 golden beets
• ½ head broccoli
• 4 large carrots
• 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
• 1 cup mixed berries, fresh or frozen

Instructions

1. Juice the garlic clove first, so the other veggies can push the garlic residue through the juicer.
2. Continue juicing the lemons, beets, broccoli, and carrots.
3. Pour the juice into a blender jar.
4. To the blender, add the apple cider vinegar and mixed berries.
5. Blend at highest speed until smooth.
6. Pour juice into glasses and enjoy immediately.

Notes

Benefits of this juice blend

First, I am not a doctor, and I am not qualified to give medical advice. Juicing does not replace any medical plan or medications. Juicing can be part of a healthy diet and a way to ensure you are getting nutrients through recommended servings of fruits and vegetables.

If you do not have a juicer but you do have a powerful high speed blender, you can chop all of these veggies small enough to blend at high speed, making a delicious smoothie with all the fiber benefits.

You can also simply eat these veggies! Make a big salad brimming with the beneficial fiber in addition to the other benefits these vegetables bring.

I chose the first 5 ingredients of this recipe for their vitamins, minerals, and antioxidant properties, which is feel good energy for me! The other fruit ingredients were chosen for natural sweetness.

For potential benefits of these specific vegetables, let's go down the ingredient list:

• Lemon: High in vitamin C and surprisingly, fiber, lemons have many health benefits including iron absorption.
• Beets: Nitrate rich beets improve cardiovascular health in many ways.
• Broccoli: Loaded with fiber and antioxidants, the anti inflammatory veggie broccoli has many benefits.
• Carrots: Packed with immune boosting nutrients, carrots are my favorite veggie that I eat every day.
• Garlic: My favorite nutritional powerhouse! See these garlic recipes, and specifically this garlic apple juice recipe for beneficial information including how many garlic cloves a day is ideal.
• Apple cider vinegar has many benefits. My favorite is from my doctor, who says that adding a tablespoon of vinegar to a glass of water and drinking it before eating can reduce the glycemic impact of a carb heavy meal.

If you are also interested in increasing iron, try my favorite iron rich bar.

How we recover from travel, exercise, and more

We travel pretty often, for both business and vacation.

Travel can be exhausting in many ways. Long travel days, recycled airplane air, late nights, dinners out, celebratory cocktails and fun, fun, fun. All of this can wear you down.

When I return home from travel, I crave fresh food like avocado shiitake spring rolls, juicy grapefruit kale salad, and flavorful and satisfying Mediterranean lentil salad.

I also use my juicer to make deliciously beneficial juice like this one, that I call my healthy defense juice.

We have been juicing regularly for at least a couple decades, and we love it so much! We used a few juicers until we got serious and invested in a cold press, horizontal twin gear slow juicer. 

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Nutrition Information:

Yield:

2

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 201Total Fat: 1gSodium: 110mgCarbohydrates: 18gFiber: 7gSugar: 9gProtein: 4g

nutrition calculations results vary by calculator, are for informational purposes only, and are not intended to replace medical advice or treatment.

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