Can you store juice that was just made with a juicer?

The short answer is no, but so many people are in a time crunch today.

So here is the problem, juicing takes time and effort and many people would like to make juice once and store some for later. There are ways to pull this off, but guidelines are needed.

The best possible scenario is to the drink the juice right after you make it.

If you need to store some for later, here is how to do it:

Get some canning jars. Fill the jars right to the tippy top with juice. The less air in the jar the better. Use a vacuum sealer attachment on the lid to suck all the air out.

Keep it as cold as possible without freezing. Keep it out of the light.

If you don’t have a vacuum sealer, at least fill the jars right to the top, adding water if necessary to keep the air out. This will help prevent oxidation.

I have read elsewhere that adding a bit of powdered vitamin C or other anti-oxidant to the juice can help.

Even with the best preservation method, I wouldn’t store juice for more than a day.

The same applies to smoothies.

You still get some nutrition from frozen juice, but not as good as fresh.

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Dr. Mercola drinks about a quart of fresh vegetable juice every day.  (the only fruit is lime) He says it helps the healthy bacteria in the gut.

I tried to make it quick and to the point.

And the juice was delicious and very alkaline.

Check it out and try for yourself.

Alkalizing Juice Ingredients

• Celery
• Carrot
• Apple
• Beet
• Ginger root
• Garden greens
• Garlic (optional)

Run through the juicer and enjoy. This is a great time of year for fresh garden herbs and greens. If you don’t have a garden, check out your local farmer’s market or roadside produce stand.

I would love to hear about your favorite juice recipe. Please use the comment box below to share.

There are many veggies that you would not even think of putting in your mouth.

How about a big hunk of ginger for example?

There is a way to get the benefit of pounds more vegetables per day without having to eat them. 

Juicing and smoothies are the answer

When you juice, you can take a few pounds of produce, some of which you would never think of eating, and turn it into a couple glasses of juice.

The best part is the vitamins and other nutrients absorb more easily into you body. It’s almost like a direct infusion of nutrition. Very little digestive energy is needed.

You can’t help but feel good after drinking a glass of freshly made juice.

Choosing the Best Quality Produce

Always try to choose organic, locally grown produce as often as possible. If you can’t get your hands on organic or locally grown, just do the best you can with what is available. A juice drink made from celery, greens, an apple and a nice hunk of ginger is still better than a candy bar and chips any day.

I have found that vegetable blender smoothies are easier to make than a glass of juice. Cleaning a blender is easier than cleaning a juicer. The nutrients in juice are more bio-available though than a smoothie, because the fiber slows absorption. On the other hand fiber is good.  So take your pick, smoothies or juice or how about both? Love to hear your thoughts. please use the comment box below.

Or if you just want to be healthier and more energetic.

The Love and Peas protein powder provides complete protein, healthy fats from the coconut, and the carrot and beet provide good carbs.

Protein, Coconut Smoothie Ingredients

• Small handful of organic coconut flakes
• 2 carrots
• 1/4 beet and beet greens
• 2 cloves garlic (optional, depending on social activity for the day)
• Piece of peeled ginger root
• Mixed greens like kale, lettuce, collards, or what you have available. Load up on the greens for pH balancing, alkalizing effect.
• 1/4 cup flax seeds
• 4 cups purified water
• 2 scoops Love and Peas protein powder

Blend the hard vegetables first; carrots, beet, garlic and ginger. Then add the coconut and greens. Protein goes in last.

This makes a great breakfast, I have a smoothie to start my day 5-6 times a week. Provides protein, fat and carbohydrates, along with vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients. A great way to start the day!

Smoothies are one way to get more vegetables into your diet, without having to eat more veggies. They can be a great help, when you are shooting for 80% alkaline foods in a day.

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It is also chuck full of other nutrients.

Mangoes contain an enzyme with stomach soothing properties similar to papain found in papayas.

Adding spinach to the smoothie makes a real nutrition powerhouse.

This green smoothie is super simple to make, just three ingredients.  Add some protein powder and a tablespoon of fish oil for a nice morning alkaline breakfast drink.

Mango Green Smoothie Ingredients

• Mango
• Spinach
• Water

I definitely like to add purified water to my smoothies. In the video she adds the water after blending the mango and spinach, I would add the water in the beginning to make it blend easier.

Please share your favorite smoothie and juice recipes with us, using the comment box below.

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We all know we need more vegetables in our diets.

Juicing is one great way to get more vegetable nutrition into your diet, without having to eat a whole bunch more veggies.

This is a basic vegetable juice recipe, that tastes good and has a good variety of veggies. See recipe below.

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Here are the juice ingredients

• Broccoli, juice the stem part, that you would normally throw away
• Carrot, adds sweetness. So vary the ratio of carrots to other vegetables, based on how sweet you want the juice
• Celery, great all around alkaline food
• Cucumber, another good alkaline food, adds volume to the juice

He is using a masticating juicer, which is better for preserving the nutrients in the juice than the centrifugal juicers. Masticating juicers can generally extract more juice from the produce you put into it. They are slightly more expensive and sometimes a bit more work to clean up and put back together after use.

When others are lying on the couch watching TV, feeling drained from the day, they are out being active.

Jay is over 80 years old. He credits enzymes rich raw foods and juices for this abundance of energy.

Live food, live body – dead food, dead body

Proactazyme® Plus (100 caps)

Benefits: •Aids in the breakdown of most types of food. •Improves digestion. •Activates needed vitamins that would otherwise be wasted. •Helps your body extract the minerals it needs. •Is well-suited for vegetarians. •Supports digestion of a high-starch or sugar diet. Proactazyme® Plus [Digestive]. Digestive enzymes may be in short supply in some people, and supplementing with them allows the body to get maximum nutrition from the diet and supports efficient digestion.

• Live foods are fresh, raw, vegetables, fruits and sprouts. They are still rich in enzymes. If you removed some of the seeds and planted them, they would sprout. If you try to store these foods, they will rot and decay over time.
• Dead foods are cooked foods. Heat destroys enzymes. Anything processed, heated, pasteurized (store bought juice), boxed, or canned. These types of foods might have potentially limitless shelf life. Cooked foods require the body to use up more of it’s own enzymes.

I’m not saying never eat cooked food. I like to have some raw vegetables or fruits at every meal. so if, I am having a steak, it’s rare and I have  a large salad with it. (eat under-cooked meat at your own risk.) Freshly made juice is a great source of enzymes. I also like smoothies too, made predominately with vegetables and occasionally some fruit.

Enzymes supplements are a convenient way to get more enzymes. If someone invites me to dinner for a large meal, I’m sure to take along EXTRA enzymes.

Just run half a beet and a few apples through the juicer, and you have a great tasting juice, that acts as a great internal cleanser.

I would love to hear your comments on this video,.

Don’t overdo it on the beets, the cleansing action might be more than you bargained for. You could end up in the bathroom for a while. Half a beet should be just right.

Liver Balance TCM Conc. (30 caps)

Benefits: •Supports liver cleansing function. •May help reduce stress and restore vigor. •Enhances digestion. •May increase feelings of well-being.

The health of the live affects your whole body. The liver performs over 500 functions, so there is not much going on in your body that is not affected somehow by the liver.

A small handful of liver functions include:

• Detoxification
• Protein synthesis
• Production of chemicals necessary for digestion
• Glycogen storage
• Hormone production
• Cholesterol synthesis

I you have a favorite juicing recipe, please share it below in the comment box. Love to hear your feedback.

This will give you much more flavonoids.

The key is to include some of the pith, the white part of the inner skin.

You want to peel away the outer orange skin, because is is very volatile. You can watch him squeeze the outer skin into a flame and it catches fire.

The next key is to use a juicer to extract the juice, not an orange squeezer. Using a juicer gets more nutrition out of the orange.

Watch the video to get the full scoop.

Grapefruits should be peeled also. Lemon peel however can be utilized. You can run an entire lemon through a juicer. Be sure to wash it off good first. Organic is recommended, so you don’t take in pesticide residue.

You will find lemons in the most alkaline column of the alkaline diet chart. Grapefruit and orange are a bit less alkaline, but still on the alkaline side. People are often puzzled, as to how an acidic food, like lemon can be on the alkaline side of the chart. You can read more about that here.

Solstic Cardio (30 packets)

Benefits:
• Helps protect against premature aging.
• Supports healthy sexual function in both men and women.
• Contributes to more productive exercise.
• Supports overall energy levels.
• Supports muscle mass and bone density, which may help reduce fatty tissue.
• May help increase mental clarity.

And the drink is delicious. This is one juice drink that almost everybody will love.

On top of that, it is very dense in nutrition, especially beta carotene.

There are just two simple ingredients to this fresh  juice.

• Carrots
• Cantaloupe

Into the juicer they go and you have a great tasting drink. Enjoy!

Cantaloupe is a low calorie fruit, that is dense in nutrition.

You can also make this recipe in a blender. Just add some ice and you have a great tasting fruit vegetable smoothie.

Food combining enthusiasts would tell you not to mix fruits and vegetables at the same meal, or recipe. Jay says this is one exception to the rule, that carrot and cantaloupe are very compatible.