You’ve accomplished the first step, getting a juicer, and now you’re doing step two, seeking to find the right apple juice recipe for you. This is your stop, provided below is four of my favorite apple juice recipes, each with its own advantages. Keep in mind apples are a great ingredient in juices, as they provide, mostly in their skin, lots of vitamin C, cholesterol, and bone-healthy nutrients.
Slice Your Way to Success
Before delving into the many apple juice recipes, it is critical to understand how to properly slice an apple. The simplest solution to this issue is just to get an apple slicer and corer; my favorites are the Norpro Grip-EZ Fruit Wedger Coreror the OXO Good Grips Apple Corer and Divider. Whether, for one reason or another, you have or don’t have an apple corer, it’s still fast and easy to prepare your apples. The simple steps are as follows:
-Place your apple on a cutting board, or other similar surface, with the stem pointing upwards
-Cut the apple vertically four times, as to leave the core in a rectangular shape
-Dispose of the core
-Further yet cut the remaining four pieces, so they can fit into the juicer
Apple Mystic – My Most Recommended Recipe!
The apple mystic contains two apples, one green and one red, one pear, one orange, and two handfuls of spinach. Despite containing spinach, this recipe remains to be very sweet and enjoyable. It is a satisfying and quenching juice that also contains essential nutrients, such as iron. When making or modifying juice recipes you should always remember to throw in a variety of ingredients.
Refreshing Apple-Orange Juice
This juice is simple, yet effective; oftentimes I drink it when I wake up in the morning. It contains three red apples, two oranges, and a handful of mint. When I first put mint into my juice I was a bit skeptical, but I’ve never regretted the decision. Not only does it add a great new flavor, but it adds even more essential components of a healthy diet, such as copper, iron, calcium, magnesium, and potassium. Herbs such as mint are a fantastic strategy to add flavorful and healthy parts to any juice.
Berry Applicious
This recipe is a bit unique from the others for one reason, goji berries. Certain fruit are considered ‘superfruit’, among these is blueberries and goji berries. If you’re unfamiliar with goji berries, they’re sure to be found at your local health / organic food store. They may run a bit more expensive as compared to other ingredients, so it isn’t recommended to use them every time. This drink includes two green apples, two handfuls of blueberries, one celery stick, one whole carrot, and of course the optional ten goji berries. Keep in mind peeling most vegetables, like carrots, isn’t necessary. Many fruits and vegetables contain a high volume of nutrients within the skin, so it’s best to keep it on. Just be wary of pesticides and other harmful substances, wash them thoroughly and completely.
PineApple Admiration
This juice provides a refreshing mix of flavors; it is unique from many juices. The recipe includes: three slices of pineapple, two red apples, a handful of spinach, and a handful of grapes. The pineapple within contains bromelain , which is an enzyme that breaks down proteins. This can aid your body in effectively consuming proteins; this renders it a very valuable tool in building muscle while you’re on a high-protein diet. A useful tip I’ve learned over the course of using custom juices is even if you’re getting the recommended servings of your fruits and vegetables, you aren’t getting the fiber from them.
To fix this, simply open up your juicer and spoon out some of the remaining pits and remains from the fruits and add them to your juice.
If you wish to adhere to the expression, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”, than simply follow one of the several apple juice recipes provided. They are great to have at any time during the day, oftentimes consumed in the mornings.
Matt Cruz is a juicing expert and focuses on the holistic approach to juicing, taking all areas into account. He has founded tailored juicing, a new way to juicing that focuses on choosing fruits and vegetable that contain the nutrients the individual body needs rather than throwing random fruits & vegetables in the juicer. Certain nutrients are more bio-available when consumed with other nutrients, this is a big part of tailored juicing as some fruits and vegetables can work together to increase the nutritional value.