Juicing the Rainbow

For nutrients, health & vitality

Recipes

This section of the site has over 70 recipes using fruit and vegetables. These are subdivided into food, juices and smoothies.

Each recipe not only gives you the ingredients and instructions on how to prepare the drink, but also the nutritional details of each juice and the health benefits of the ingredients in the juice.

Green Parsley Smoothie

Parsley is a perennial plant known for its exceptional content of flavonoids and antioxidants which afford it some amazing disease preventing capabilities. It also adds a good flavor to numerous dishes.

Minty Mango Smoothie

Medicinal properties of mint have been used in traditional medicine to treat everything from stomach pain and indigestion to whitening teeth and freshening breath. In modern times fresh mint makes the perfect condiment for great tasting, healthy drinks.

Sweet & Sour Lemon Smoothie

Lemons are one of the few natural products capable of serving not only culinary or aromatherapy advantages, but medicinal, health and disinfecting purposes as well. Hardly any other natural product serves such a wide variety of purposes.

Sunny Orange Smoothie

Full of natural sweetness and free from saturated fats, cholesterol and sodium, oranges provide an abundance of healthy nutrients. They are equally good when juiced with other fruits of choice or on their own.

Wholesome Kiwi Smoothie

Kiwifruit has been used by the ancient Chinese as a health tonic since ancient times. The emerald colored fruit contains a large variety of health promoting phytonutrients.

Recharging Lettuce Juice

Lettuce has been known since ancient times for its purifying and refreshing benefits. In modern times, lettuce has become a well loved ingredient in green juices.

Bone Forming Kale Smoothie

Kale has been treasured for its highly nutritious properties since the ancient times of Greeks and Romans. It has gained greater popularity in the last few years as a green juice and smoothie ingredient and is a favored drink of many health conscious celebrities.

Nutty Jicama Juice

This, not so common an ingredient in the U.S, is a delicious option for juicing with a flavor that is a cross between an apple and a potato. Rich in nutrients, its juice compliments a range of flavors.

Deep Cleansing Jerusalem Artichoke

The Jerusalem artichoke can never achieve star status in juicing recipes due to its bland taste; it does however make an exceptional additive so you can take full advantage of its valuable nutrients.

Sweet & Sour Grapefruit Juice

Grapefruit is claimed to be a fruit of “paradise” due to the unique health-enhancing and disease fighting properties it possesses. A versatile gem, its peels are used as garnish for dishes while the fruit itself may be juiced or enjoyed whole.

Green Bean Juice

Frequently called “poor man’s meat”, this fat-free, nutrient rich food should really be called “healthy man’s meat”. The tiny beans hidden inside an edible pod provide a wealth of health benefits.

Fig Almond Smoothie

Sweet nutty flavor and delicate in aroma, figs are loaded with calcium, fiber and antioxidants. A fig smoothie makes for the perfect breakfast drink or a replenishing mid-day snack.

Garlic Veggie Juice/Smoothie

Not many people drink vegetable juices for their taste, but there is no denying of the benefits offered by the elixir made with a variety of beautifully blended vegetables spiked with garlic. In fact, according to folk medicine garlic was believed to have been the an elixir for everything from the Plague to the common cold.

Green Grape Smoothie

Grapes blend pleasantly with most other fruits and add an appetizing flavour to green smoothies also. Consumption of grapes offers numerous health benefits with studies associating them to prevention of serious diseases like cardiovascular disorders, cancer and elevated blood pressure.