Apple Juice Recipes
Health Benefits and Nutritional Facts
Apple Juice is lovely on its own, and I enjoy it with ginger and lemon juice. It's the only fruit that mixes well with all types of vegetable juice, and I often use it in my Vegetable Juice Recipes to make them lovely and sweet.
Apples are one of the most heavily sprayed fruits so I like to use organic apples when I can.
Caution: Apple pips contain small amounts of cyanide. While you would need to eat an awful lot of apples to suffer any ill effects, I like to remove the apple cores when juicing - especially when making juice for children.
Here are some of my favourite apple juice recipes.
Fresh Apple Juice with Lemon
- 3 apples
- ½ lemon (optional)
- Wash the apples.
- Remove their cores.
- Cut the peel off the lemon.
- Slice apples to fit your juicer.
- Juice and Enjoy.
A lovely sweet drink. Great as is, or serve over ice with natural fizzy spring water for a summertime treat.
Apple, Carrot, and Celery Juice Recipe
A family favorite!
Ingredients- 1 apple
- 1 carrot
- 1 stalk of celery
- Wash the apple and the vegetables.
- Core the apple
- Cut to fit your juicer.
- Juice and serve
This is a sweet tasty juice which my son loves. I like to add more carrots and celery, and sometimes ginger and lemon too.
Apple and Grapefruit Juice Recipe
A lovely autumn breakfast juice, and a great way to use some of those windfalls.
- 2 large apples
- 1 grapefruit
- Wash the fruit.
- Core and slice the apples to fit your juicer.
- Peel and slice the grapefruit.
- Juice and Enjoy.
Apple Juice Recipe with Celery, Nettles, and lemon
Surprising sweet and delicious.
- 3 apples
- 2 celery stems
- 3 stems and leaves of nettles (optional)
- ½ lemon
- If your feeling brave go forage some nettles!
- Wash the fruit and vegetables.
- Core the apples.
- Remove the lemon peel.
- Slice apples to fit your juicer.
- Juice and Enjoy.
My Samson Juicer handles the leafy green nettles with ease - I wear a glove and feed them in one at a time.
Tip: If you have a centrifugal juicer then alternate juicing the nettles with the celery or apple. Centrifugal juicers don't really like juicing soft greens, so if this doesn't work I'd just miss the nettles out - apple and celery juice is lovely anyway.
Apple Juice Recipe with Spinach and Broccolli
- 3 apples
- 3 handfuls of spinach
- left over broccoli stems
- Wash and core the apples.
- Wash the broccoli and spinach.
- Slice the apples and broccoli to fit your juicer.
- Juice and enjoy.
Like the above recipe this one works best in a masticulating juicer like my Samson.
You should be able to make it in a centrifugal juicer if you alternate juicing the spinach with the harder apples and broccoli stems.
More Apple Juice Recipes
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Health Benefits of Apples
The well known saying "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" may well be true! Apples are great in juices, but to make the most of their amazing cleansing and detoxifying properties be sure to eat them whole with their peel, and add them to smoothies and puddings too. Apple skins contain anti-cancer chemicals, and beta-carotene.
Apples are rich in pectin a type of soluble fiber which can:
- Remove toxic metals such as lead, mercury, and aluminum from the body.
- Bind with radioactive residues and remove them from the body. (Apple pectin is given to children exposed to 137C after the Chernobyl disaster)
- Improve the health of the intestines.
- Help reduce high cholesterol.
Apples and their juices:
- help protect the lungs from the damage caused by smoking.
- contain malic and tartaric acids which reduce the spread of bad bacteria in the guts, and reactivate beneficial gut bacteria. Studies at Cornel University discovered apple extracts reduce colon cancer by over 40%.
- have a high mineral content, and are great for healthy skin, fingernails, and hair.
If you'd like more information on the health benefits of apples them visit www.bestapples.com.
Apple Nutrition
The nutritional value of apples:
Vitamins
A good source of Vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene, Vitamin C, vitamin K and folate, plus smaller amounts of Vitamin B1 (thiamine), B2, B3, biotin and Vitamin E.Minerals
Rich in potassium, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium, plus smaller amounts of iron, manganese, copper, and zinc.Phytochemicals
Apples contain many beneficial phytonutrients. Apple skins, and red onions, are rich in quercetin which is a powerful antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-histamine.Calories
- 100g of apple contains 52 calories.
- A medium 3" (7.5cm) apple contains roughly 95 calories.
Best Juicer for Apples
Apples juice well in most juicers. Their soft firm texture means they're easily shredded by centrifugal juicer, and crushed by Masticating juicers. Crisp apples make a lovely clear juice, while soft apples make cloudy juice.
The Samson juicer I have now makes lovely fresh apple juice. The apples need to be sliced up into approximately eighths, but this doesn't take long unless you are making loads of juice.
If your not planning of juicing wheatgrass or other soft leafy greens then for large amounts of fresh apple juice I'd recommend a wide mouth Breville juicer such as the JE27 which won the overall Best Buy by Which Magazine (May 2008).
Small budget centrifugal juicers make perfectly good apple juice. The down side is that they tend to be both noisy and a pain to clean. You should drink the juice straight away as it soon turns brown.
What Shall I Juice Today?
Creating your own fresh juice is fun, and I recommend you begin by following a recipe. This way the juice is more likely to taste delicious, and you'll want to keep on juicing:)
For lots of recipe ideas check out "The Juice Suggester - Juice Recipe Software". This handy tool gives you recipes for whatever fruit and vegetables you've got around the house, and you can print out the list to take shopping too!
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