Did you know that green juice can help you lose weight, get clearer skin and boost your eyesight? Well, it’s true! Green juice not only helps detoxify your body and purges it from toxins, but it also provides you with many health benefits. What are they?
Read on and find out what these health benefits are and how you can make this incredible green juice at home.
Some of the main benefits of green juice include:
Perhaps the most obvious benefit of green juice is its ability to flush toxins out of your body while providing you with important health benefits.
Green juice is packed with fruits and vegetables. The fruits and vegetables contain many essential nutrients that help improve your health and give you energy. Green juice can make your skin glow and revitalize your body.
Your pH level indicates whether your body is alkaline or acidic. Usually, human blood pH balance must stay within a given range, so that you can avoid the acidic and harmful effects of the foods that you consume. Green juice can help you keep your body in an alkaline state.
Juicing your vegetables is not only healthy, but it becomes easier for your body to absorb all the nutrients quickly and effectively. This helps your digestive system as vegetables and fruits in their natural form take quite long to break down in your body. As the nutrients get absorbed in the bloodstream directly, you feel less fuller but active throughout the day.
Green juice can help you lose weight quite easily. You can consider replacing one meal with a glass of green juice. This way you will not be consuming extra calories, but will still have enough energy to last the entire day. Green juice contains most essential nutrients and can easily replace one of the meals of your day.
Green juice is quite tasty. Depending on what you choose to add, you can use kale, broccoli, spinach, collard greens, dandelions and many other types of vegetables that you usually don’t consume in your normal diet.
These vegetables are also quite rich in fiber, and excess fiber might cause many complications. When you juice a vegetable, it loses most of its fiber content, and thus, it becomes easier for you to digest the nutrients it contains.
Green Detox juice is made up of many nutritious ingredients which have their own set of benefits for the human body. Listed here are the usual ingredients used to make the green detox juice.
This cruciferous vegetable is rich in Vitamins C, A and K. It also contains essential minerals like folate, iron, calcium and is crammed with antioxidants (1). Kale helps detoxify your liver and purge your body of free-radicals.
Cucumber is one of the coolest foods and is made up almost entirely of water and fiber. Cucumber helps rehydrate your body and also contains many essential B vitamins (2).
Apart from ‘keeping the doctor away’, apples provide that much-needed taste to the green juice. They also help boost immunity, prevent gallstones and support liver activity (3).
Lemon is especially rich in vitamin C. It helps boost immunity and improves liver function (4).
Now that you know how beneficial green detox juice is, let’s move on and show you how to make this incredibly healthy juice:
Ingredients:
• 1 cucumber
• 1 lemon
• 3 apples
• 5 kale stalks
Directions:
1. Wash the ingredients and put them into the juicer bowl.
2. Add a bit of water (if needed) and juice the ingredients for at least 3-5 minutes.
3. Check and run the juicer again (if needed) until the juice becomes smooth.
You can drink green detox juice during your 3-day detoxification plan. To tell us about any other recipes or variations of the green detox juice, leave a comment below. We would love to hear from you.