Green Detox Juice
A delicious and healthy detox juice, perfect to help boost your liver's detoxification pathways and enabling improved clearance of excess hormones.
Ingredients
- 100g (3.5oz) organic spinach
- 50g dandelion greens
- 2 large celery stalks (you can include the leaves)
- Juice of one lemon
- 1 thumb size piece of ginger
- 400g (14.1oz) filtered water
- Optional: 1 tbsp green powder/ spirulina / chlorella/ barley greens
- 1 large green / Granny Smith apple
Instructions
- Place the spinach and dandelion greens into a blender, add sliced celery and apple, add the ginger (with skin), lemon juice and water blend until smooth.
- Makes 4 small or 2 large juices.
Notes
This is a great way to increase your daily vegetable intake, especially if you need to increase your daily greens. Please try to use organic produce, otherwise you are increasing your exposure to pesticide and other chemicals, defeating the purpose, especially since green leafy vegetables absorb a high amount of pesticides.
Daily greens are beneficial to the body in numerous ways because they contain chlorophyll, a phytochemical which is high in vitamins and minerals, helps reduce inflammation, acts as an antioxidant and improves liver detoxification pathways. Celery is high in electrolytes, also aids in reducing inflammation and can help support digestion processes. Ginger, another potent natural anti-inflamamtory can also help liver detoxification, digestion and acts as a prebiotic, feeding beneficial gut bacteria. Dandelion greens act as potent diuretics, are high in potassium and also have choloretic properties, thereby increasing bile production, supporting indigestion and protecting the liver. Lemon juice contains d-limonene, a compound that is anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-cancer in nature and helps improve liver detoxification enzyme function.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 250g (8.8oz)Amount Per Serving: Calories: 53kcal/250Total Fat: 0.4gNet Carbohydrates: 8.6gFiber: 3.1gProtein: 1.7g
