Recipes for Making Juice in a Blender

Everyone knows, that freshly squeezed juices are the best source of vitamins and minerals. Drinking them every day will help you to stay energetic and strengthen all systems of your body. With their help, you can get gorgeous hair, strong nails and even face skin tone.

How to make them? It can be done with the help of blender or juicer. Reviews of the best blender models can be found on this page.

Let’s look at the popular juice recipes in a blender.

Maximum of Vitamins

Carrot juice is a great source of vitamins A, B, C, D, E, as well as beta-carotene, phosphorus, potassium and calcium. It improves skin tone, strengthens nails and hair and regulates liver function. To make carrot juice in a blender, you have to:

Peel the carrot and wash it thoroughly with running water

Cut off all solid parts

Chop the vegetable into pieces not longer than 5 cm

Put the pieces in blender and grind until smooth

If the carrot is too hard, add a little bit of water in the blender

Boil half a liter of water and mix it with the carrot puree until smooth

Let the drink stay for half an hour

Strain the mixture through sieve, discarding all the pulp

If you want to make the drink more liquid, use a fine sieve and add more water. You can get an interesting taste by mixing carrot juice with the orange one. Such drinks should be served immediately, as they lose useful properties with time.

Useful Properties of Tropical Fruit

Bananas can be used for making different drinks and juices in blender. They contain vitamins A, B, C, as well as fruit acids, fiber, potassium and peptides. Fruits are composed entirely from carbohydrates and have the following useful properties:

Relieve stress

Strengthen immune system

Regulate water-salt balance

Help with bladder stone disease

Increase muscle mass, that is useful for sportsmen

Help to get rid of constipation

Help to improve concentration and performance

Bananas are not recommended to people with diabetes, as they increase blood sugar level. But there is a way out of this situation – just cook the fruits before use.

To make banana juice in a blender, chop bananas into medium-size pieces and grind them in a blender, making banana puree. To make the drink more liquid, combine it with other juices – for example, carrot, strawberry or apple ones. It should be noted, that useful elements get absorbed better from the juice, because its pulp doesn’t irritate the intestinal mucosa.

Fresh Orange Juice

Orange juice is a very healthy drink, rich in a whole complex of vitamins and useful elements. It is recommended to those who lead active lifestyle, is prone to getting colds, as well as to kids and pregnant ladies. How to make this useful drink? To get 1 cup of fresh juice, you have to:

Wash 3 oranges and take off peel

Discard all streaks and pellicles

Chop fruits in pieces and put them in a blender

Beat until smooth

Add a little bit of water

Once again grind the mixture

If desired, you can experiment a little by adding lemon, tangerine or grapefruit juice to orange one.

Lemon Fresh Juice

Not many people like to make lemon juice in a blender. They just don’t know that it can be very tasty and sweet and replace not-so-healthy soft drinks and other carbonated beverages. Here’s the recipe of lemon drink:

Put zest from half a lemon in a cup of water, bring it to a boil and then boil for a few more minutes

Let the mixture cool down and strain it

Add a little bit of sugar or its substitute, let it dissolve

Combine the mixture with the pressed lemon juice and mix everything thoroughly

If desired, this drink can be combined with orange juice, that will make it even healthier and richer

Cocktail with Lemon Juice and Ginger

Many ladies search for recipes that help to lose weight, but not many know that citric acid helps to throw off extra pounds. It reduces appetite and breaks down fats, and if combined with ginger it turns into amazing cocktail that strengthens immune system. To make it, you have to:

Boil a liter of water

Peel the ginger root and grate it

Add grated ginger and 1 teaspoon of green tea in the boiled water

Cover the container with a lid and let it stay for not more than 20 minutes

Cut the lemon in half, then squeeze juice from it in the drink

Such a cocktail can be taken both as hot or cold drink every day. It’ll not only help to lose excess weight and reduce appetite, but also significantly improve the overall health.