It’s no secret that fruits and vegetables keep you strong and healthy by contributing greatly to your well-being. These days, we’re getting more creative with the ways we get our nutrients from trusty greens and fruity goodness. Now, we don’t just add veggies to your favorite dishes, or eat fruit for dessert. Juicing lets us enjoy the health benefits of fruits and vegetables on the go. The extracted juice from our favorite fruits and vegetables have many healing properties that work wonders for our well-being. With juicing, we can mix our favorite healthy fixes and make each juice our own.
Whether you’re just catching on the wonders of juicing, or you’re looking to fully embrace your health and fitness goals, we’re giving you our tried-and-tested juices and now fridge favorites that suit your everyday nutrient needs:
Tomato
Fresh tomatoes aren’t just divine on pasta, pizza and salads – they also work wonders as juice. High in lycopene, tomato juice keeps your heart healthy and lowers antigens that cause certain types of prostate cancer. So the next time you’re enjoying a Bloody Mary remember, it’s saving you from cancer and heart disease one drop after the other!
Acai Berry
If there’s a superman among fruits, it’s definitely acai berries. This juice’s anticonvulsant properties were studied on mice and showed acai berries pack more benefits than their flavor. From protecting your brain to lowering the risk and intensity of scary seizures, this fruit has your health covered. First discovered in South Africa, even those who swear fruits taste bad all over the world now can’t resist each acai berry’s flavor traveling their way.
Beetroot
The beetroot juice’s maroon goodness helps you break your own workout records. By maintaining your body’s use of oxygen and helping increase your stamina, this fruit may just be your new workout buddy. Beetroot opens your blood vessels to help blood and oxygen flow better around your body. Its health and fitness powers lower your risk of having blood clots, high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels. Not only does this purple plant protect your liver, but its juice also keeps your high blood pressure at bay so you can get 100% of its phytonutrients’ goodness.
Pomegranate
Pomegranate juice is called a grenade, and for a good reason. It fights so many diseases, it might as well be explosive in goodness. Its juice helps fight breast and prostate cancer and lets your body target and remove cancer cells. It lowers the risk of heart disease as well as LDL cholesterol levels among those with high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes. It also helps in easing arthritis and joint pain. Pomegranate juice is rich in anti-bacterial and anti-fungal properties that combats infections such as gingivitis, periodontitis and candida. What did we say – explosive goodness, right?
Carrot
Carrots are everywhere: from salads to various cooked dishes, its sweet taste similar to many fruits makes it a staple for many juicers as well. Drinking carrot juice lowers your risk of cardiovascular disease. Carrots get this done by boosting antioxidants in your body and decreasing the process of lipid peroxidation that harms your cells. Now you know why Bugs Bunny simply can’t get enough of carrots!
Blueberry
This fruit doesn’t just make good pies, jams and cheesecake toppings, but it also works wonders in fighting germs that are everywhere, even on our food. Lucky for us, blueberries pack powerful antimicrobial powers. Their antioxidant nature lowers the risk of food-borne illnesses and lessens the severity of enteric viruses. So the next time you see blueberries, remember, they’re not just flavorful toppings – their juice keeps you from getting sick, too!
Cranberry
Cranberries keep your urinary tract safe through its cleansing powers. One of the fruits richest in vitamin C and other nutrients, these small red berries are great at eliminating the uropathogenic bacteria such as E. Coli and E. Faecelis that cause urinary tract infections harmful to your bladder. Just like their blueberry relatives, there’s more to cranberries than heavenly pie and jam.
These are just seven of the many fruits and vegetables that pack nutritious goodness for our health and well-being. So whether you’ve just started on giving juicing a try, or you’re looking to spice up your everyday juice intake, these fridge favorites are great healthy fixes that keep you refreshed and energized on the go.