These Juicing & Smoothie Recipes Are Great for Beginners
Before we describe these great juicing and smoothie recipes, just a quick word about juicing equipment.
Blender vs Juicer
Blenders make lousy juicers! A blender and a juicer are two different contraptions with two distinct functions. If you want to separate the juice from the pulp, stems and seeds, you want a juicer.
Simply cut any fruit or veggie into manageable pieces - stems, peels, the whole 
shebang - and a juicer will extract the liquid and discard the rest. A blender, on the other hand, doesn’t separate anything. Rather, it grinds and mixes everything. It won’t create a juice. Rather, what you get is a thick "smoothie," but you must use a high speed blender to create a smoothie. Using a kitchen-grade blender will result in a lumpy soup especially if you use fibrous or tough vegetables such as beets, carrots or celery.
Delicious Juice Recipes
Now that we're clear about blenders and juicers, lets get down to business: delicious juice recipes. I'll mention several of my favorites, but really the best recipes are the ones you create!
Start with simple recipes using your favorite fruit or veggie. My favorites are blueberry, strawberry, carrot and grape. Or try my favorite vegetable juice for a quick boost of energy: tomato, celery, sweet peppers, and Worcestershire sauce, with a dash of horseradish, sea salt and black pepper. Try wheatgrass with orange or pear. Here's a fabulous favorite: broccoli with melon, apple or pear. If you're adventurous try almonds, corn and milk.
Recipes That Target Health Concerns
Then there are the more involved recipes based upon the nutrients most beneficial to improving a particular health issue such as heart disease, diabetes, or prostate problems. Or maybe you want to increase your energy, boost your memory, lose weight, make those wrinkles disappear, or give your child a nutrient-packed alternative to sugary fruit juices and soft drinks. Consult your local nutritionist, or purchase Juicing & Smoothie Recipes That Heal! available here in the box on the right and for Kindle, Nook and iPad users at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iBooks.All the recipes are based on the latest nutritional research.
Create Your Own Recipes
Create Your Own RecipesThe best part about creating your own juice recipes is making use of your imagination. Start with your favorite flavor and add something interesting. Blueberry is my favorite flavor, and when I combine it with wheatgrass or cucumber what a wonderful surprise!
Speaking of wheatgrass, this and other greens are the only items you should use in moderation - no more than 1 or 2 ounces at a time - lest you experience some stomach distress.
Let yourself be creative and don’t be concerned about mistakes. Experiment with the tastes you enjoy. Start off with just 2 or 3 different fruits or vegetables such as carrots and apples and celery. You’ll soon have the hang of it. Then broaden your experience with some greens such as kale or wheatgrass – fabulously nutritious foods. Just remember that you really can’t fail when it comes to giving your body a nutritious drink – it just may not taste great at first! Greens are the most nutritious food, but very bitter, so it's best to blend them with sweet vegetables or fruit to kill the bitterness. But whether a juice of greens tastes good or not, you get fabulous benefits for your muscle tissue, glands, and organs.
A Few Quick Tips
So pick some veggies or fruits that you enjoy and juice away! If you're a juicing novice, here are a few tips. First, bananas and avocados will clog a standard juicer, so place these items with your already-juiced mixture in a blender.
Another important point is that you can juice the entirety of many fruits and veggies. An exception is the rind of citrus fruits like grapefruit, tangerines and oranges. But keep as much of that wonderfully nutritious white fleshy pith attached to the rind. Lemons and limes are a great example of citrus that can be entirely juiced, peel and all.
There are more helpful tips in my article on top juicing tips
digestion, curing disease, maintaining the health of the brain, boosting energy and improving urinary tract function.
Vitamins in green tea include A, B, C, D and K. Vitamin A lowers appetite, promotes healthy vision, fights bacterial growth, inhibits viruses, decreases the risk of many cancers and protects against stroke. Vitamin B (5, 7 and 9) decreases cholesterol, muscle pain and depression, defends against blood clotting, lowers the risk of birth defects during pregnancy and protects against certain types of anemia. Vitamin C boosts the immune system, promotes the healing of wounds and lowers ‘bad’ cholesterol. Vitamin K is essential for the health of the liver, brain, lungs and heart. Vitamin D is essential for the body’s ability to absorb phosphorus and calcium. Recent research links vitamin D with the prevention of cancer and degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
Vitamins & Minerals
breaking down fats, helping to carry energy to our cells, and increasing the body’s absorption of oxygen. They act as an anti-bacterial, strengthening the immune system, and inhibiting the buildup of excess water. Other important benefits include maintaining healthy tissue throughout the body, especially in our bones, intestines, liver, kidneys and placenta, promoting the digestion of foods, pain relief, wound healing, and reducing inflammation.
Amazing Benefits
ailments. The entire fruit is utilized, from the rind and fruit to the seeds and bark of the tree! It’s been traditionally employed to cure intestinal parasites, diarrhea and dysentery, as well as a heart and throat stimulant, to halt gum and nose bleeds, tone the skin, as a remedy for hemorrhoids and a means to balance diets excess in fatty foods. Pomegranates were used in ancient Egypt as a remedy for infections and tapeworm. The rind of the fruit was formed into leather by the early Romans!
Vitamin K is important for blood clotting. Pantothenic acid (B-5), and other B-complex vitamins assist the digestive system. Vitamin C boosts the immune system and fights disease and infection. Pomegranates eaten daily work against the development of certain 
Minerals in butternut include potassium which helps to maintain a healthy heart by sustaining a strong heart rhythm and blood pressure. Iron is essential for the production of red blood cells, prevents anemia, defends against skin damage, and helps to fend off the aging process. Calcium maintains strong bones and teeth. Phosphorus has a crucial role in helping the body store energy and heal damaged tissue and cells, and in combination with the B-vitamins boosts the healthy function of the heart, kidney and nervous system. Butternut also contains high levels of zinc, magnesium, copper and manganese. These minerals play a host of important functions including fighting harmful free radicals and improving our vision and skin.
Medicinally, due to its high fiber and protein content, pumpkins have traditionally been employed for digestive issues and vegetarian diets.
Vitamin A is extremely important for healthy vision. It also lowers appetite, fights bacterial growth, inhibits viruses and cancer and protects against stroke. Vitamin C boosts the immune system, guards against viruses and bacteria, promotes the healing of wounds and lowers ‘bad’ cholesterol. Vitamin E is essential to skin health, important for the metabolism of Vitamin A, improves the immune system, defends against blood clotting, reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke, helps prevent atherosclerosis by lowering ‘bad’ cholesterol and may also protect brain neurons from Alzheimer’s. B-complex vitamins inhibit nerve damage, assist in digestion and muscle development, strengthen the heart, lower ‘bad cholesterol’, assist in the transformation of food to energy, produce hormones linked to less stress, increase sexual performance, lower the risk of birth defects and may also decrease the development of cancer according to recent research.
ancient Rome. It’s believed peaches traveled to the New World in the 1500’s with Spanish explorers. Native Americans are thought to have spread the peach throughout North America.
Amazing Benefits
antioxidants, include anthocyanins, cyanidins, salicylic acid, quercetin, tannin, gallic acid, catchins, pelargonidins and kaempferol. These all help to fight inflammation, cancer, neurological disease and aging.
