Just Bought a Juicer? 3 Beginner Green Juices to Try
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Just invested in a juicer but don't know where to start? Green pressed juices are a great way to add a ton of disease-fighting micronutrients into your diet without eating your weight in salad. Unfortunately, the grassy, vegetal taste of some green juices can be hard to swallow for juicing newbies. Work your way up to those fruit-free recipes that die-hard juicers love with these sweeter concoctions that will get you excited about your new juicing habit.
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P.A.M. (Pineapple, Apple, Mint) Juice
Start off on a very sweet note with a juice that just about anyone will like. With only three palate-pleasing ingredients, this belly debloater — inspired by BluePrint Cleanse's blockbuster P.A.M. juice — may be short on vegetables, but it's big on taste. Get the recipe for P.A.M. juice here. If you want more nutrients in your juice, replace some of the apple with a few leaves of kale.
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Apple Carrot Juice
The spinach in this apple carrot green juice really ups the nutrients without altering the flavor. The rest of the ingredients — apple, baby carrots, and lemon juice — keeps the juice tasting bright, fresh, and sweet.
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Sweet Greens Juice
Now that you're getting used to your juicer, it's time to add a few more nutrients into the mix. This sweet greens juice recipe, inspired by the Evolution bottled cold-pressed juice sold at some Starbucks locations, has a little bit of everything: celery, lettuce, cucumbers, and apple, among other produce. If you want to make it sweeter, decrease the amount of celery used.