Every time friends stop by, I love to share what’s in my refrigerator and excitedly offer what I just made.  It makes my friends so happy to be able to taste delicious foods and  juices and makes me feel good to be able to share the love and see their reactions.  I wanted to make a good juice using sweet potatoes since, believe it or not, sweet potatoes make a creamy delicious juice and I had lots of them.  I also love adding medicinal roots such as fresh ginger or turmeric to juices for their wonderful anti-inflammatory properties.  My girlfriends and I could not get enough of this good enough to be a dessert juice.  It was so good!

It is important to eat a rainbow daily!  The variety of colors found in fruits and vegetables have numerous health benefits.   Each color has certain tasks to preform in our bodies, and it is said that the color orange promotes a strong immune system, healthy eyesight, helps to prevent cancers, promotes collagen formation, and has anti inflammatory properties.  The good guys responsible for all of these benefits are alpha and beta carotene, flavonoids, lycopene, and vitamins C and B6.   When all of our systems have their nutritional needs met, it will reflect on the outside and provide us with beautiful glowing skin.

MMM yummy.  Who doesn’t love a wonderful carrot juice?  Carrots are so beneficial to the body and so healing.  Their benefits include tons of vitamin A, C, E, K, B1, and B6.  They also contain biotin, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, and of course, carotenes.  Carrots help to detoxify the liver, helps your eyesight, skin, helps fight inflammation and constipation.  Carrots also are known to help boost your immune system by increasing the production and performance of white blood cells.   The limes add more vitamins C and B6 and phytochemicals to help in detoxifying the body.  The apples of course add sweetness, pectin, and fiber.  The pectin and fiber in the apples and the carrots helps to lower the serum cholesterol levels in the body.

Here’s a simple yet delicious green juice that is tasty and nutritious!  Kale has so many wonderful benefits to the body, including high amounts of chlorophyll which helps to improve the hemoglobin levels in your body.  Kale is also loaded with calcium, copper, iron, potassium, and loaded with vitamins B1, B2, C E, and K.  Kale directly benefits your bones, brain, improves cholesterol, detoxifies, and helps fight inflammation to name a few.  Oh, and I forgot to mention that it helps to improve the elasticity in your skin to help give you that youthful glow!  The limes are also loaded with nutrients including vitamins C, B6, flavonoids and phytochemicals, which also help to detoxify your body.  The apples not only add a wonderful sweetness to your juice, they are also loaded with nutrients including pectin, fiber, quercitin, and vitamins A and C.  They also help fight inflammation, help digestion, constipation, and helps with muscle stiffness after a workout.

This tastes like an orange juice, but green.  It is sweet and delicious, nutritious, loaded with vitamin C and flavonoids from the citrus, vitamin K and calcium from the cucumbers and kale, and so much more.  Enjoy!

This juice is so sweet and delicious!  Beets help to lower blood pressure, boost your stamina, and help purify your blood and liver.  Carrots have beta-carotene which prevents macular degeneration and vitamin A for healthy glowing skin, while apples are loaded with quercetin which helps fight against colon cancer.  Lemons are loaded with vitamin C and are very alkalizing for your body.  WIN WIN!

This juice is so good and so refreshing on a hot summer day!  When watermelons are plentiful in the summertime, not only are we always eating them, I am constantly making watermelon juice too.  If you have kids, they will not complain about drinking this juice.  You can add lemon and ginger and have a delicious lemonade too!