Green Goddess Elixir
Posted on Feb 01, 2008 under From My Kitchen |
I want to share this recipe with you. I found it on Karen Knowler’s website quite some time ago, adapted it slightly and have loved it ever since.
This is what Juicefeasting.com had to say about pineapple juice:
The hallmark of this delicious tropical fruit is the presence of its anti-inflammatory enzyme, bromelain. Bromelain is great for reducing inflammation anywhere in your body, and this enzyme will also serve to digest animal and plant proteins in your intestinal tract. Pineapple juice is also antagonistic to parasites, and is good at breaking down liver and gallstones. Finally, pineapple is great to mix with Green Vegetable Juice. A warning, however. The bromelain in the pineapple digests proteins, and your Green Vegetable Juice is loaded with protein. That means that combining the two and leaving them sitting for hours will find you returning to a glass of partially digested Green Juice. Better to drink this right away, or make the two juices separately and combine just before drinking!
The lemon is thrown into the juicer unpeeled, provided that it’s organic. It gives quite a sharp tang to this juice, which I find quite refreshing. We have a lemon tree in our garden, and we don’t use any fertilizers or poisons, so I just wash my lemons well and toss them in!
Green Goddess Elixir
* 1 medium RIPE pineapple
* 2 apples
* 1 lemon including its peel
* 2 bags of spinach (approx. 400g)
* 5 sticks celery
* 1 whole cucumber including peel
Simply juice the whole lot, pour into a jug, stir well. Pour, drink, pour, drink!
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February 1st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Sounds delicious. How much juice does this make.. if you use the quantities you listed?
February 1st, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Good luck on your juice feast.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Hi ya!!
Just popping by to say Hello and wish you a wonderful weekend!!
The recipe sounds YUMMY!! I wish we could get good fruit up here *sigh*.
*huggles*
=0)
February 1st, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Wow! I just caught up on your juice feast, Im impressed with your determination, and anxious to hear how it goes. How long do you feast for? Is this a permanant dietary change? Im very curious.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Will try it, Thanx!
February 1st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I’m not sure I could drink this. Can I just eat them all whole instead? Fiber and all that…
February 1st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Imagine, juice that conumes itself! It does sound delicious though. Do you drink one kind of juice per day, or a variety?
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 am
Good luck on the juice feast. That recipe sounds really good!
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:55 am
Sounds good, keep the healthy tips and recipes coming!
February 2nd, 2008 at 6:53 am
Interesting combo. ..how’s the “juicing” going?
February 2nd, 2008 at 4:10 pm
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