Benefits of Green Smoothies and Juices
Juices, smoothies and green juices are an excellent choice to incorporate fruits and vegetables into our diet in a simple way and take advantage of all its nutrients and properties. They are produced primarily by mixing green leafy vegetables and fruits, although you can also add a few drops of lemon or lime juice, ginger, turmeric, etc.
By adding seeds (such as sesame, linseed or flax or hemp) to some extent these impede the absorption of nutrients and favor the gastrointestinal irritation and may even produce gases. If you add the green smoothies, which is in short supply and sporadic.
Juices and green smoothies can be taken first thing in the morning, preferably on an empty stomach and not between meals for one day a week they can drink only to debug and detoxify, etc. They are a good way to provide nutrients to our diet and can be helpful in weight loss diets because it does not provide many calories, moisturize, help eliminate toxins and purify, stimulate our metabolism and are very healthy.
It is best to prepare at the time that will be consumed.
Difference between green juices and green smoothies
While green smoothies contain all the fiber, green juices lack of it, so into the bloodstream long before green smoothies and are absorbed more slowly because of the fiber they contain.
Green juices or juices are prepared with a blender. We can also prepare green juices with a hand mixer or tumbler and once prepared simply pour the batter to separate the juice or pulp.
Green smoothies can be prepared with a blender or hand (must add water) and drink as is, with the fiber.
An important difference is that juices or smoothies are oxidized before the shakes, so if you want to leave prepared your green juices at night to drink in the morning, if you make a juice (with fiber) it will retain many more nutrition claim that if a juice or smoothie. Keep it always in your refrigerator or refrigerator.
If you're doing a detox diet might be more beneficial to consume smoothies (with fiber) instead of juice, because the nutrients just need help digestion and thus purifying process in our body while keeping us hydrated and nourished.
Another benefit of green smoothies is that by keeping the fiber, helps us to clean the colon and cleaning and removal of accumulated toxins is favored.
In addition, green smoothies are more satiating than juices or smoothies. Consider your preferences and needs and combine the two options, juices and smoothies.
Health benefits of drinking green juices
Juices and green smoothies are full of chlorophyll, vitamins, minerals and enzymes very beneficial for us.
Strengthen our immune system, so help us protect our body and keep it healthy.
For his contribution in chlorophyll, a pigment green with lots of vegetables, help us to oxygenate blood and this will take more oxygen throughout the body, which is especially interesting for athletes.
They help alkalize the pH of the blood.
Eliminate accumulated toxins in the body.
Regeneration of cells that form tissues, organs and body systems is facilitated.
How do the juices and green smoothies
In juices and green smoothies combining fruits with vegetables, mainly green leafy vegetables are prepared:
Rúgala
Dandelion (leaf)
Amaranth (leaf)
Cabbage (cale)
Lettuce
Mint
Wheatgrass
Chard
Broccoli
Parsley
Spinach
Celery (stem and leaves)
Endive
Watercress
Nettle
Plantain
Stevia
Borage (leaf)
Cucumber
Leaves carrots, turnips, beets, radishes, etc.
You can also add a piece (about 2 cm2) of stalk of aloe gel or aloe vera to shake.
Combine these greens with seasonal fruits such as:
Apple
Pears
Banana
Papaya or pawpaw
Handle
Plum
Orange
Pineapple
Kiwi
Strawberries
Blueberries
Dates
Grapefruit or grapefruit
Cherries
Grapes
Peach or peach
Apricot
It is not recommended to mix fruits with starchy vegetables, such as carrots, cauliflower, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, squash, corn and zucchini, and that poor digestion is favored and could produce gases.
For a green juice or juice with two ingredients is sufficient, for example, lettuce leaves and a pear. No mixing several greens and various fruits in the same juice. Keep the mix as simple as possible and thus will facilitate the absorption of nutrients.
Try to vary as to the ingredients you use in each beat, so you make sure you get the different nutrients of each fruit and green leaf and also do not get tired of the same flavors.
Recipes juices and green smoothies
I encourage you to try the following combinations and also to experiment with other combinations according to your tastes:
Pineapple + Cucumber + Chayota
Spinach Strawberries +
Orange + Celeri
Mango Spinach +
Cabbage (cale) + Peach or Peach
Kiwi Mint +
Nettle + Grapes
Apple lettuce +
Parsley Cucumber + Pear +
Celery + Dandelion + Banana
Wheat Grass Endive + Plum +
Watercress + Kiwi + Apple
Stevia plantain + + Orange
Arugula + cucumber + Pineapple
