When people consider healthy fruits, cantaloupe typically does not come to mind. This is unfortunate because the diversity of nutrients provided by a cantaloupe is a major health factor overlooked by most people.

Cabbage belongs to a family that is traditionally known as cruciferous vegetables. The group is known for supplying nutrients across a wide variety of categories and body systems. The easy to grow vegetable that is easily available around the globe all year comes in numerous varieties, with each providing unique health benefits.

Beets are the source of betanin and vulgaxanthin, two of the best-studied betalains. Both of these nutrients provide antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and detoxification properties. While betalains can be found in other foods, beets have the highest concentration of these highly valuable nutrients.

Basil is a very fragrant herb that has traditionally been used as a seasoning and garnish in cooking. Recently it has become an important ingredient in juicing recipes due to the numerous health benefits it offers. While the leaves are the most commonly used part of the plant, its seeds, flowers and stem are equally nutritious.

Apples are the most commonly cultivated and consumed fruit on the planet, making them easily accessible. Their naturally sweet taste, high nutritive value, and ease of blending with other fruits or vegetables make them the ideal juicing candidate.

Green juices are a great meal in their own right. This one is packed with vitamins, mineral, chlorophyll and enzymes.

Jicama is great in juices. Because the juice of Jicama has a green bean flavor, you may want to add it to celery or carrot and then use up strongly flavored vegetables like kale. That would be: Jicama Celery / Carrots Kale Another delicious juice recipe with jicama is to […]

I like the juice because it’s something unique. It tastes like candy, and it has like a sweet taste to it, but not too sweet.

Oozing with vitamins and minerals, this little leaf with its peppery flavor, tops the list of natural super-foods. It has been used since ancient times as a flavoring, aphrodisiac and for medicinal purposes.

Carrot is a great way to get nutrition. It is full of vitamins and beta carotene. It helps to purify and feed nutrients to your cells.

The nutrients supplied by the juice of turnip root and its greens offer an ideal way for “powering up.” The vegetable provides a large variety of essential vitamins, minerals and fiber.

Wheat grass is an amazing food that is loaded with seventeen amino acids, the building blocks of proteins and 92 out of the 102 minerals found in nature. It is the miracle food that must be included in everyone’s daily diet.

Contrary to the common conviction that watermelon is nothing more than sugar and water, it is in reality a nutrient dense food. This means it is a food that delivers elevated quantities of minerals, vitamins and antioxidants at low calorie cost.

Regardless of whether you call a tomato a fruit or a vegetable, the fact remains that this is one nutrient rich food that people should use more liberally.