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
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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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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.
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
- Juice the garlic clove first, so the other veggies can push the garlic residue through the juicer.
- Continue juicing the lemons, beets, broccoli, and carrots.
- Pour the juice into a blender jar.
- To the blender, add the apple cider vinegar and mixed berries.
- Blend at highest speed until smooth.
- 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.Â
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
2Serving Size:
1Amount 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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happyvalleymom says
This looks and sounds yummy! That is until I saw the last three ingredients. I have an allergy to cherry, mango and pineapple. Since you are adding them as a sweetener could I add any fruit? Strawberries, raspberries and oranges perhaps?
Kristina Sloggett says
hello! yes, you can absolutely use any fruit you like - your choices sound great! enjoy!
Meghan@CleanEatsFastFeets says
I love juicing, and I'm not even sure why, but I just keep going back to it. I also figure the extra nutrients can't hurt out immune systems.
Kristina Sloggett says
I love juicing too (I'm so glad you get it)! I get so that if I do not have it one day, I am not the same. kinda like coffee for some, perhaps?? 😀
Meghan@CleanEatsFastFeets says
I went to the grocery store today, and they had these beautiful beets and all I could think was juice. Beets, some carrot, maybe an orange, some lemon. Mm, mm good.
Hotsie101 says
I wanted to tell everyone to try beet leaves and two apples the beets are good also to juice.I normally roast the beets for a salad
Kate@Diethood says
I need this juice! Everyone around me is sick...and now I feel a tingle in my throat. :/
Thanks for sharing, sweets!!
Kristina Sloggett says
oh, no - go make this QUICK! 😉 I hope you do not get sick!
Caitlin says
Yum!
I have never thought of adding fruit to sweeten up a juice that has garlic in it! I am definitely going to try this. I made a savoury one full of nutrients that I just put up on my blog:
http://kaybattin.tumblr.com/post/41284996383/the-cold-killer-super-c-juice
Jeanette says
I've been juicing lately too -feels like I'm getting a transfusion of all those good vitamins and minerals. Hoping it will help keep me healthy this winter too!
Kristina Sloggett says
a transfusion - YES! it's like instant bright energy, I think that is why I feel like I NEED my juice each morning... cheers - here's to everyone around us staying healthy and well this winter (and all year...)!
Vanessa says
Hi! Just wanted to say that the juice sounds pretty yummy. Also, antibacterial gel won't do much good since influenza is a virus and using antibacterials will put your own natural bacteria under a selective pressure, encouraging them to become more resistant to antibiotics. Alcohol-based would be better than antibac gel if you want to kill the bacteria nevertheless since the microbes won't become resistant to alcohol but will still die.