Exerience the Benefits of Juicing
Beetroot - Celery - Tomato

Jack LaLanne's JLPJB Power Juicer

The Benefits of Juicing Vegetables

Vegetable juicing is fast gaining popularity, as health conscious people understand the benefits of raw foods. Not only do they provide the enzymes our bodies need for proper digestion and cell function, but many of them act as powerful vaso-dilators and diuretics, actions that help reduce high blood pressure.

Other ways we can reap the benefits of juicing vegetables and fruits is that they are full of high mineral and vitamin content like potassium, and vitamin C, and many other powerful antioxidants that fight against free radicals that cause cell damage.

The Benefits of Juicing Beetroot

At the time of writing this page, it was already one year on from the news that drinking beetroot juice daily can bring down blood pressure significantly.

Not only does it contain high levels of potassium; calcium; folic acid; and iron, it also works in an amazing way from the time it enters into the mouth to the end results of opening up the arteries. An amazing vaso-dilator.

For information on how beetroot works to open blood vessels, see my page on the Benefits of Beetroot

The Benefits of Juicing Celery

Celery is not everyone`s favourite but it goes down well with some, and is good "medicine" being full of potassium. But what is more interesting about this food is that the nutrient Phthalide that causes the smell and taste is actually a stress reducer. It causes a depletion in the production of stress hormones. So go with the flow and relax. You can blend celery juice with apple juice which masks the taste a little.

No need to add salt as the vegetable contains a lot of salt, yet it acts as a diuretic. Nature has all the right ingredients. We just need to learn and respect her.

The Benefits of Juicing Tomatoes

LDL is dubbed the "bad" cholesterol, but in fact, the body recycles it to use again. The root of the problem is when cholesterol is oxidized by free radicals.

Tomato juice, sometimes misspelled tomatoe juice, contains a substance called lycopene, a super anti-oxidant, helping to slow down cholesterol oxidization.

Drinking tomato juice will also give you a boost in potassium too. There is a super recipe to try below.

Juice Recipes

Here is a great recipe that includes beetroot, celery, and tomatoes.

1 Beetroot with roots and leaves
1 Celery Stalk with leaves
3 Tomatoes
1 Carrot

Add some leaves of the following -

Parsley
Lettuce
Watercress
Spinach

Wash all the vegetables, leaving on the beetroot roots and leaves, and the celery leaves. Make sure you roll all leaves into a ball, putting them into the juicer before a firmer vegetable to help get the juice from them. Doing it this way helps stop them going into the pulp container before the juice is extracted. Alternate the soft and firm vegetables, as the firm will help push the soft through.

Salt and Pepper to taste, but not too much salt as the celery contains salt.

You can use the pulp to add to soups, stews, or pies. I normally use mine the same day when I cook dinner, but you can always save it in the freezer.

Tomato Super

2 large beef tomatoes
1 cucumber
1 tsp. of Lemon juice
1 tsp. of Turmeric
I tsp. of Tarragon
1 tsp. of paprika
1 tsp. of Basil
Small cup of spring water

Roll the fresh Tarragon and Basil into a ball and put in juicer first, then 1/2 of the cucumber and 1 tomato, followed by the rest of the cucumber and other tomato. Add the spices, lemon juice, and water.