An Introduction to Juicing - Getting the Best from Fruits and Vegetables - Recipe Bases


Now here's a tip. For vegetables you will nearly always want to have a carrot base. Why? Most vegetable juices are a bit off-putting, especially at first, and especially if you are juicing greens. Carrots are naturally sweet. And when they are broken down they are even sweeter. If this proves not sweet enough for you, you can always add apple to your base. Simply pop a few carrots and an apple into your juicer and you are on the way to creating wonderfully healthy and bountiful vegetable juices.

So to this you can add anything. A lot of vegetables produce extremely potent juices, so you don't need a lot to get the punch. That's good, because adding them to your carrot/apple bases means you only need a little which will not make the flavour unpleasant.

For fruit you will probably find it best to use your juicer to get juices to add to smoothies you make in your blender. Why? A lot of fruits are expensive, so you won't want to make a big glass of juice out of a fivers worth of fruit! Here's one I made shortly before writing this:

Summer Mango Tango
One ripe mango
A handful of blueberries
One lime
Four or five strawberries.
Ice and icy water

Juice your one half of your lime (with the skin), and add the other half (without the skin) to your blender filled with the flesh of the mango. Pour in the juice, add the blueberries and strawberries and the ice and iced water (about a cupful) and blend until smooth.

This tangy, creamy, cool smoothie is perfect on a hot day - it tastes great and is full of life giving nutrients - much better than anything you buy from a store! This will give you about three glasses.

A typical vegetable recipe with a bit of a kick
Three or four medium sized carrots
One apple.
Two radishes
Half inch of ginger

I like it, but I realise it's not for everyone. The beauty is, stick to the first two, then experiment with other vegetables.


If juicing green leafs (and you should!) remember to pack the leafs into the chute, or along with other chunks of vegetables to ensure they get properly broken down. You will need to experiment yourself with the taste balance, as people vary in their like and dislike of greens. But greens are essential, they contain so much goodness, you shouldn't ignore them.


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