How to Make a Detoxing Green Juice

Try this detoxing green juice when you need a little internal spring cleaning. This vibrant green juice is a powerful combination of dandelion greens, spinach, celery, herbs, green apple, lemon, ginger and cucumbers. Juice some up today and give your body a clean start for a fabulous spring or anytime you need a natural little detox support.

I have a few green juice recipes on my site, but this one includes dandelion greens and other delicious detoxifying ingredients. Detoxing green juice is good because green means chlorophyll, and chlorophyll rids the body of environmental toxins and promotes cleansing and detoxing.

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• Why You'll like This Recipe
• Recipe Ingredients
• Substitutions and Variations
• The Best Juicer
• Wash Your Produce
• Serving Suggestions
• Recipe FAQs
• More Juice Recipes
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Why You'll like This Recipe

• Refreshing taste.
• Supports and boosts natural detoxing.
• Easily found ingredients.

Here's another terrific green juice recipe with kale and lemon.

Recipe Ingredients

Dandelion greens: More than just an annoying garden weed, dandelion greens are edible bitter greens, great for cleansing your liver and kidneys, and full of vitamins A and C, and minerals. Because of their bitterness, start with just a few leaves until you develop a taste for them. The ginger, lemon and apple in this juice help offset the bitter taste. Dandelion is great has great benefits.

Cucumbers: The phytonutrients in cucumbers provide valuable antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer benefits as well as hydration.

Celery: More than diet food, celery is an under-appreciated nutritional powerhouse provides potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, vitamin C,  plus it's anti-inflammatory and one of the most alkalinizing foods you can eat. Adding celery to your diet is good.

Cilantro: Beyond guacamole and salsa, cilantro helps cleanse the body of toxic heavy metals, plus it's an incredible source of antioxidants, is naturally calming and has a long history of therapeutic use. Some people hate cilantro, so if you're in that club, use parsley instead and still get great health benefits.

Green apples: a rich source of beneficial plant compounds called phytochemicals including quercetin, catechin, phloridzin and chlorogenic acid, all of which are strong antioxidants. Antioxidants stimulate bile production, which the liver uses to release toxins. The old adage "an apple a day" has truth behind it!

Ginger and Lemon: Both add wonderful flavor to fresh juices. Ginger is a natural anti-inflammatory and digestive booster as is lemon, plus lemon is great for cleansing and promotes hydration. Lemon also helps your body's alkaline levels as it turns alkaline when it hits your digestive system.

For quantities please see recipe card.

Substitutions and Variations

• Substitute lime juice for lemon juice.
• If you can't get green apples, choose another low sugar, tart apple variety. For more on choosing apple varieties, see this site from USApple .
• Add a little ACV, apple cider vinegar, to increase this juices detoxing ability.
• If you can't get dandelion greens, swap kale or spinach.

Apple ginger beet juice is another terrific combination, not to mention a gorgeous ruby color.

The Best Juicer

Drinking fresh vegetable and fruit juices is super beneficial for your health and juicing at home gives you the best nutrition. No additives, no pasteurization, and you control the ingredients (as in all organic).

To make juice at home, you will need a juicer. The best juicers on the market are slow, cold-press, masticating juicers. They do the best job of extracting all of the goodness from your produce without oxidizing the nutrients.

Wash Your Produce

When I get all of my groceries unloaded and into the kitchen, I fill a sink up with Eat Cleaner Food Grade Wash and wash all of the produce at once. No rinsing required.

Serving Suggestions

Green juices and all freshly made juices are best soon after making. I love them at room temperature right out of the juicer. With the right juicer, you can make and hold them in the refrigerator to drink within 24-72 hours, which helps you get ahead.

To do that, I use a Greenstar juicer from Tribest. Juices last up to 72 hours with minimal nutrient loss. There are many good juicers on the market at all prices levels so find one at your price level.

Recipe FAQs

Is juicing daily a good habit? Yes. Read this post and decide for yourself.

More Juice Recipes

Here are a few more green juice recipe and other healthy juice recipes to try. They all taste great.

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