Power Juice Recipes Can Be Used For Many Purposes

Power juice recipes are great because you can pretty much create that energy drink to match your taste. By just adding fruits to overpower the taste of the vegetables you may not particularly care for, but which are needed to produce the desired outcome , you can make a delicious, nutrient packed juice.

Also for children who won't eat their vegetables you can hide the vegetables in the juice drink. You can start by just introducing one vegetable at a time that kids are not crazy about like broccoli, carrots, spinach and celery. By using the sweet fruits that children enjoy like apples, melons and strawberries, you can give your kids a healthy, nutritious energy packed juice with their daily supply of vegetables. The carrots actually add a sweetness of their own to the juice as do some other vegetables like sweet potatoes and even corn, so you can add those along with other vegetables you would like your kids to have.

Some basic power recipes to get started in which to add the vegetables:
1)1 apple, 2 pears, 2 kiwis
2)1/2 pineapple, 2 oranges
3)1 apple, 4 carrots, 1 cucumber, 4 celery stalks
4)1 cup each of raspberries, blueberries, blackberries
You can scale these recipes up to make more so the whole family can benefit from their nutritional value.

If you're looking for a power juice to protect your heart, you can't do better than berries. Equal amounts of strawberries, blackberries and blueberries will provide the vitamin C and vitamin E along with a host of minerals and other nutrients essential to proper heart health. You can add a kiwi for taste, just make sure to peel it first.

For a morning fast start to help get you going nothing beats citrus with some strawberries and a banana added in for good measure. Just use 1 grapefruit, 2 oranges, 1 small banana, and half a dozen strawberries.

For a detoxifying power juice try juicing one sweet potato, one pineapple and four oranges. It has a unique but pleasing taste to help rid the body of accumulated toxins, at the same time supplying healthy amounts of vitamin C and beta carotene, which will be metabolized
into vitamin A.

The best way to consume these fruit and vegetable juices is at room temperature. Though on a hot day a cold drink is more appeasing. The fresh juices have a short shelf life, meaning they need to be enjoyed as soon as they are prepared. Otherwise the vitamins and other essential ingredients will start to deteriorate. The juice itself starts to oxidize as can be seen clearly with apple juice. It will start to turn brown indicating oxidation and the loss of some of its nutritional value. The reason you never see this with commercially prepared juices such as apple juice is that they are pasteurized for long shelf life which destroys valuable nutrients.

If juices must be stored for a short time, fill the container up to the top to allow as little air as possible to interact for oxidation, wrap it up in aluminum foil to protect the nutrients from damaging light and place in the refrigerator for no more than 24 hours.

By: Alex Ralbeck

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