Carrot Juice Recipes#1 – Straight Carrot Juice
10 large carrots
Carrot Juice Recipes #2 – The Capple Zipper
5 carrots
1 apple
1″ slice of fresh ginger root
Carrot Juice Recipes #3 – Jamaican Juice
4 carrots
1 cup of coconut milk
1 tsp of nutmeg
1 tsp of vanila essence
Only the carrots go through your juicing machine in this carrot juice recipe. Add the milk, nutmeg and vanilla essense seperately and mix well.
Carrot Juice Recipes #4 – Green Carrot Juice
3 carrots
2 stalks of celery
1 cup of spinach
1/2 a cucumber
1/2 an apple
Juicing Carrots
I recommend using organic carrots for your vegetable juice recipes. Non-organic carrots are often smothered in pesticides that are carinogenic and create a lot of work for your immune system to detox them. As the skin is the area that contains the most amount of pesticides, it is a good idea to peel non-organic carrots if you use them for juicing.
Carrots are a hard vegetable, so for some juicing machines it might be easier to get them through if you half or quarter them first. I use a Jack LaLanne power juicer and that gets them through whole.
Health Benefits Of Carrots
Carrots are the richest source of beta-carotene than any other vegetable. Beta-carotene is powerful antioxidant as well as being the plant pigment that puts the orange hue in carrots. One study in Massachusetts found that eating beta-carotene rich foods can help reduce the risk of developing heart problems. The diets of 1,300 elderly people were closely followed by researchers and they discovered that those who ate daily serving of carrots or squash (another beta-carotene rich food) were 60% less likely to suffer a heart attack than those who ate fewer than one serving per day!
Beta-carotene is also a great protector of eye health. As an antioxidant it helps protect the eyes from the harmful effects of free radicals in UV light, Such protection help keep the eyes younger for longer and also reduces the risk of developing potentially blinding eye diseases like cataracts and macular degeneration.
Beta-carotene also has more to offer for eye health. It is converted in the liver to vitamin A, which in turn is also converted into a chemical called rhodopsin. Rhosdopsin is a purple based chemical that the eyes need in order to see at night time. Without we develop night blindness. So carrots really do help you see in the dark!
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