Juicing has been huge part of my life since my teens. I have always had a slight aversion to eating fresh fruit and vegetables so juicing has been both a fun way to add them to my diet and to try fruits and vegetables I normally wouldn’t eat. You can find many juicing recipes online or mix up your own combinations of fruits and vegetables to suit your taste.
If you do try juicing, make only as much juice as you can drink at one time because fresh squeezed juice can quickly develop harmful bacteria. And when juicing, try to keep some of the pulp. Not only does it have healthy fiber, but it can help fill you up.
There are many health benefits of drinking freshly juiced fruits and vegetables, and it’s a great way to add nutrients from the fruits or vegetables that you normally wouldn’t eat. Fruit and vegetable juices retain most of the vitamins, minerals and plant chemicals that would be found in the whole versions of those foods. These nutrients can help protect against cardiovascular disease, cancer and various inflammatory diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis. Valuable compounds called flavonoids and anthocyanins are abundant in a variety of fruits and vegetables and guard against oxidative cellular damage, which comes from everyday cellular maintenance and is exacerbated by exposure to chemicals and pollution.
Most morning I show up to work sipping on my fresh juice I had made that morning, so when Michael turned to me asked if I would be interested in creating a recipe that could highlight the health benefits of both juice and tea I was instantly enrolled. I put January’s Tea Box under my arm and went straight to my local grocer to purchase fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables. That night I created a recipe for each of the teas. The following day I brought them into the office where we sampled the juices and voted for our favorite. The Blueberry Rooibos from Rishi Tea stole the spotlight and brought in the top marks. The rooibos, berries and hibiscus natural lent itself to juice, creating a sweet, tart blissful taste. Check out the recipe below. Enjoy!
Blueberry Rooibos Juice
- 2 celery sticks
- 2 carrots
- 1 small beetroot
- 1 cup of cranberries
- 1 slice of pineapple
- 1 slice of a ginger root
- 1 cup of Blueberry Rooibos (chilled)
Juice all ingredients and then stir in the chilled blueberry rooibos…. sit back, take a sip and enjoy all the goodness and detoxing you have just done for your body. We found that this juice was very effective at instantly uplifting our mood and boosting our energy.
Maureen Hanlon, Tea Sparrow Family