We already talked about fruit juices, but today we will focus on fresh vegetable juice recipes. Including them in your diet is an excellent opportunity to make a great contribution to your health. The question is, what is the use of vegetable juices for our body.

Vegetable juice can be squeezed from virtually any vegetable: carrot, cucumber, celery, beet, tomato … And each juice is useful in its own way.

Today we will learn, what is the use of freshly squeezed vegetable juices.

Vegetable juice benefits

It is believed that vegetable juices are more useful than fruit, because they do not contain fructose (at least in the same large quantity). Let’s see, what’s the benefits of vegetable juices and why they should be included in your daily diet:

1. Juices from green vegetables contain chlorophyll, which is very effective in carrying out procedures for detoxification. Chlorophyll makes our body strong, cleans liver and helps to improve our blood cells, and this is confirmed by numerous studies, helps fighting cancer.

2. Vegetable juices help to cleanse the body of toxins and other dirt.

3. This is an excellent source of vitamins and minerals, enzymes and nutrients.

4. Vegetable juices contain a lot of natural hormones, drugs and antibiotics. For example, some hormones that are needed to the pancreas to produce insulin are contained in cucumber-onion juice, and tomato-radish juice contains antibiotics.

5. Juices contain easily assimilable calcium, potassium and silicon. They allow you maintaining a biochemical balance and preventing early aging of cells and development of diseases.

The list can be continued on and on, as each vegetable is useful in its own way. Therefore, read the useful properties of some of the most popular vegetable juices.

Vegetable juice recipes

Carrot juice

It is very rich in vitamins A, B, C, E and K and helps normalizing functioning of the whole organism, improves digestion, increases appetite and strengthens teeth.

By the way, lactating women should drink lots of carrot juice, because milk may not always provide all necessary elements. It is known that it is very useful for eyes, throat and respiratory organs. Fresh carrot juice is a storehouse of mineral deficiencies. It contains potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, sulfur, silicon and chlorine.

Moreover, it perfectly cleanses the body and helps maintaining skin beauty and youth. So it can be safely used during acne treatment and prevention.

Tomato juice

Raw tomato juice is very helpful. It contains acids that are necessary for metabolic processes. Unfortunately, we often drink it in canned form. When tomatoes are cooked, or canned, organic acids contained in it, become inorganic and harmful to our body.

Fresh tomato juice contains a lot of sodium, calcium, potassium, magnesium, thiamin, vitamin A and much more useful elements.

It, like other juices from fresh vegetables, should be drunk almost immediately. If you want diversity, then add  a few drops of Tabasco sauce or cayenne pepper.

Cucumber juice

It is the best natural diuretic. Cucumbers promote hair growth and prevent nail stratification. In addition, cucumber juice is prescribed while a bad state of teeth and gums, as it contains calcium and phosphorus.

It is best to combine this vegetable juice with carrot, spinach and lettuce juice. A mixture of carrot and cucumber juice - a good support in treatment of rheumatism and acne.

Celery juice

It is rich in active sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, B vitamins, vitamins A and C and folic acid. Поэтому So it is perfect for those who are sticking to a diet, and those who work a lot.

A hot day is easier, if you drink a glass of this juice. In addition, it lowers blood pressure and helps coping with stress. It contains substances that help fighting migraines and blocking development of cancer cells. And, of course, it helps removing toxins from the body.

Not everyone can drink celery juice in a pure.  So try this this vegetable juice recipe:

Celery juice with apple and carrot

This mixture combines useful properties of 3 juices: celery, carrot and apple.

Take 4 stalks celery, 1 large apple and 2 large carrots. Wash fruits and vegetables and peel. Leave leaves of celery, but remove carrot ones. Remove core from apples. Pass through the juicer and enjoy.
If you have a sweet tooth, then add not 4 celery stalks, but one.

By the way, celery juice goes well with tomato juice.

Beet juice

This is the most valuable juice for formation of red blood cells and improving blood composition in general. It contains folic acid, vitamins A, C, B1, B2, B3, and beta-carotene, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and sodium. It is best to drink it in the mixtures, as it has a very specific taste and may cause dizziness.

Here are the basic beet juice benefits:

* improves condition of liver, stomach and urinary bladder;
* helps fighting cancer and anemia.
* especially useful for women. During menstrual disorders beet juice is very useful, if you drink 50-100 grams 2-3 times per day. During menopause, it gives a much better effect than drugs.

To squeeze beet juice, choose small roots, as they are more delicious. Here is one of beet juice recipes:

Beet juice with celery and carrot

Take 1 small beet, 2 large carrots, 1 stalk celery. If you want to make juice sweeter, replace carrots by apples.

This is only a small portion of vegetables and greens to prepare juices. You can squeeze juice almost from everything. And each one will have benefits.

Remember, juice should be drank fresh. The main value of fresh juices is contained in enzymes they contain, but when heated they all die, and we get nothing. That is, in the stores we buy “dead” juice.

Enzymes are complex substances that contribute to food digestion and assimilation of it by blood. It is alleged that enzymes are even able to “digest” cancer.

We cannot say purchased juice is completely useless. But any nutritionist will tell you it is harder digested by the body. So do not be lazy, and treat yourself with a delicious and healthy vegetable juice recipes you can cook at home.