Spicy Green Juice

Ingredients :

• Half a lemon (not peeled)
• Ginger root (one to two inches long, peeled)
• 1 medium sized green apple
• 2 to 3 handfuls of spinach (more if you’re brave or used to the flavor)

How to prepare :

1)    Just in case you are using a vertical slow juicer and you’re using spinach with the stems still intact try to chop them into smaller chunks (1” or so) so it does not clog.

2)    For traditional extractors just roll the spinach up in a ball then sandwich it in between the two halves of the apple.

3)    Juice the ginger and lemon afterwards.

4)    Food Fact: Ginger is used by the ancient Chinese to fight a variety of ailments (particularly stomach ailments) and is known to improve circulation.

NOTES :

I’ll be honest here, I called this green not because it uses a lot of green leafy veggies but the output will be green. In fact, the only green vegetable in this recipe is spinach and you can put lots of it, depending on your taste buds.

Spinach is considered by many experts as the one of most nutritious leafy greens out there, if not the most nutritious.

A cup of it has 171mg of potassium, 30mg of calcium, 145mcg of vitamin K and 2813 IUs of vitamin A. I didn’t include the calorie content because we’re juicing this so you’re taking fiber out of the picture.

Ginger adds a touch of spiciness to this drink, if you don’t like this flavor disregard it but it does a great job masking the strong flavor of spinach (trust me you’ll like this withginger than without).