Green juice recipes for weight loss

Green juice recipes for weight loss easy to prepare

There are many possibilities to combine vegetables, fruits and greens to get a natural juice full of vitamins, minerals, fibers, antioxidants and many nutritive substance which you can drink every day.

Let’s see some green juice recipes for weight loss.

The best ingredients for a natural juice consumed on regular basis are ginger, lemon, apples, carrots, parsley, beetroot, cabbage, celery, spinach.

Only one glass of natural juice will give you a boost on your health.

Green Juice

Green juice for weight loss

Ingredients:

– 1/2 white cabbage

– 1 green salad

– 2 apio celery sticks

– 2 small cucumbers

– 1 lemon

– 1 green apple

– 1- 2 cm of ginger

– 1 – 2 ice cubs

Directions:

Wash all the ingredients’ with pure water or make a mix of apple vinegar (1 part) and water (3 parts).

Use a cold press juice and add first the juicy ingredients’ and finish with the less juicy ones.

The ice cubs have an important role, in case you asked yourself why do you need them. The role is to keep the green juice, because the warm juice get oxidized quickly.

Add the ice cubs and enjoy your juice. Drink it after preparation.

Benefits:

Full of vitamins, minerals.

Wheat grass juice

The best benefits for your body you will get from fresh wheat grass juice, immediately after extraction.

This juice has powerful detox effects and can cause you nausea, but this is a normal reaction of the body when toxins are eliminated.

At the beginning you should drink small quantities, 1/2 tea spoon daily for one week and gradually to increase till 100 grams, 50 grams in the morning and 50 grams in the evening.

I will detail in a Green juice recipes for weight loss wheat grassfuture post more about wheat grass.

You should drink your juice immediately because its losing very quick its benefits.

Ingredients:

– 1 – 2 hands of wheat grass

Direction:

Place the wheat grass in a fresh pressed juicer and drink the juice immediately.

Benefits:

Wheat grass contain a high level of chlorophyll and it’s a rich source of magnesium.

It has strong detoxifying properties and helps your body to eliminate the toxins.

Juice with alkaline effects

Ingredients:

– 1 medium carrot

– 1/2 cucumber

– 1/2 white cabbage

– 2 slices of lemon

– 1 – 2 cm ginger

Directions:Green juice recipes for weight loss alkaline

Wash all the ingredients’ with pure water or make a mix of apple vinegar (1 part) and water (3 parts).

Use a cold press juice and add first the juicy ingredients’ and finish with the less juicy ones.

Consume the juice immediately after extraction.

You can add more ingredients’ like kiwi, spinach, green apple.

Note: I do not like the strong taste of the lemon and each time I remove the pill. You can try both and decide what you like most.

Benefits:

An alkaline diet can reduce the risk of chronic diseases like high blood pressure, could improve memory and protect us against cancer diseases and of course losing weight.

Parsley leaves juice

Parsley juice detoxifies the body, helps you lose weight and is the biggest enemy of cellulite.

Drink one glass of this juice every day for three weeks, and fat in your body will be burned much faster.

Do not drink parsley juice without combining with other vegetables, it can cause nervous system disorders.

The parsley juice combine with beet juice, carrots or cucumbers, parsley juice improves menstruation problems.

Ingredients:

– one good handful of parsley leaves

Green juice recipes for weight loss parsleyDirections:

To prepare parsley juice put the leaves in the cold press juicer.

There is another option to put the parsley in a blender, add water just to cover the leaves and blend.

It is recommended drink the juice as soon as it has been prepared and in no case kept in the refrigerator for more than five hours.

Preferably drink this juice before the main meal.

Benefits:

detoxifies the body, helps you lose weight and is the biggest enemy of cellulite.

Creamy avocado and spinach juice

This juice or smoothy can replace your morning breakfast because is rich in nutrients, minerals and vitamins which will give energy.

Ingredients:

– 1/2 ripe avocadoGreen juice recipes for weight loss avocado

– 1 medium banana

– 1 handful of spinach

– 1 glass of water

Directions:

Wash the spinach leaves and place them in a blender. Pill off and add banana, pill off the avocado and add in the blender.

Add a bit of water enough for the blender to work and give them a swirl.

Mix all of them adding water until the juice has consistence. You can have a more creamy juice if you use less water and if you want it less creamy add more water.

Benefits:

The spinach is poor in calories but contains minerals, vitamins and antioxidants which help you to maintain your weight and health.

Green ‘nectar’

This is a smoothy recipe and kiwi is the secret ingredient to get your nectar.

The kiwi’s creamy and juicy consistency makes it perfect for use in smoothies recipes. Kiwi taste is a combination of strawberries, banana and watermelon. Don’t you think so?

Kiwi can be associated with spinach, greens and parsley.

Let’s make our ‘nectar’.

Ingredients:

– 1 kiwi

– 1 green apple

– 1 slice of ginger (1 – 2 cm)

– 200 ml water

– optional: some mint leaves

Green juice recipes for weight loss kiwiDirections:

Pill of the fruits and ginger, chop them in small pieces and add in the blender together with the water and mint leaves.

Mix for 1 – 2 minutes till you get a creamy nectar.

Drink it immediately or keep it in the fridge for no more than 5 hours.

Note: if you want to obtain a juice for all ingredients, just use a cold press juicer and increase the ingredients’ quantity. Of course do not use water.

Benefits:

Kiwi contains lots of vitamins C, K, E, fibers, calcium, magnesium.

Kiwi offers antioxidant protection for your body and the important antioxidant is vitamin C.

The benefits of green juice

The chlorophyll contain by the green leaves maintains your body healthy.

You should choose the leaves with a strong green color because they have more chlorophyll.

Your body need an alkaline environment to stay away of diseases.

Green juice contains minerals.

Last but not least, the green juice helps you to reduce weight.

Conclusion

Try any of these juices, as you notices they are very easy to prepare and very handy.

Tips if you want to detox your body: start your morning with juice made of root vegetables (beetroot, carrots), at lunch have a citrus juice and end your day with an antioxidant juice made of berries.

If you like this post, I would be happy to hear your comments which you can leave in the below comments section.

Do you have suggestion or questions related with this subject? Happy to received and answer.

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Dany

I have always been interested in living a healthy life.

I believe in the power of nature, the power of the plants which were given to us. Hiking, running, yoga, Pilates and meditation are the tools which keep me in shape and provide a state of well-being.

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6 Comments

  1. I’m all about health and reading some of these recipes were making my mouth water up, they sound good! I might need to make one of these soon. I’m a suck for green apples too and the green nectar recipe sounds delicious. Do you by chance have any green grape recipes? Thanks for sharing!

    1. Hi Jeremy,

      I glad that I open your appetite for green juices 🙂
      Yes, the green nectar is a must to try.

      Actually I do have and I wonder how did I forgot about it. Thanks for reminder.

      Here it is:
      1 green apple
      1/4 lemon
      one handful of green grapes
      1 – 2 cm of ginger
      I like more spicy and I use more.

      Let me know if you tried and like it.

      Thanks for your comment.

      Stay healthy!

  2. WOW these sound so yummy! I’m going to try them in my blender. My cold press juicer got old and I haven’t replaced it yet sadly. Thank you for this!

    1. You’re welcome, Sydney.
      Pass by with a comment and let me know which one you liked most.

      Stay healthy!

  3. Hi,
    My family are really into juicing and have really only been using one green juice recipe.
    I love the variety you have provided here. I particularly like the sound of the green juice and creamy avocado and spinach.
    I have been considering starting a detox recently and like your tips on how to do this.
    I will be sending this page to my husband as he will like it a lot I am sure.

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    Thank you for the insightful info and all the best!

    1. Hi Catherine,

      Thank you for your kind comment. Unfortunately, it’s only me into green juices. I cannot make my family to give it a try.
      The creamy avocado is a must to try.
      Nice topic, I’ll create a future article about detox.

      Please share with him and let me know which one is his favourite.

      Following you now in social media. Thanks!

      Stay healthy!

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