Juice fasting is considered to be one of the best detox diet program. It is observed that during juice fasting people generally consume fruit juices. Rarely people consume vegetable juice during fasting. During the whole fasting period they completely stick to fruit juice diet. The main advantage of consuming vegetable juice during fasting is that it is easily absorbed and also retains the fiber content.
Vegetable juices are highly beneficial for your body while you are on juice fasting. Vegetables are not only rich source of minerals and vitamins but it also contains phytochemicals. Besides nutritive value raw and fresh vegetable juices contains lots of healing power. Nutritive value of some of the commonly used vegetables during vegetable juice fasting is listed below:
- Carrots: Generally it is used as a base juice for different juices and is one of the most nutritive juices. Carrots juice contains high sugar content but still no other juice can compete with it in nutritive value.
- Broccoli: It is a rich source of minerals and vitamins and not to forget proteins. Broccoli basically is immature flower harvested before blooming.
- Cucumber: They serve as one of the best additions while mixing different vegetable juices. Cucumber contains high content of potassium and other minerals.
- Spinach: Spinach juice acts as mellowing agent when mixed with strong vegetable juices. As everyone knows it is rich source of iron. It also has rich content of vitamins and other minerals.
- Sweet Potato: It is one of the excellent sources of beta carotene. Sweet potato juice basically is used for giving a variation to different vegetables especially carrot.
- Parsley: Best source of chlorophyll and best option to reduce pungent flavor and odor of garlic. It is advisable to juice it with other vegetables as it may clog your juicer.
- Cabbage: Raw cabbage juice is a rich source of minerals especially sulphur and vitamins. But make sure that you drink cabbage juice immediately as it starts oxidizing. It is advisable to consume in combination with other vegetable juice.
- Beets: Beets have high content of vitamins and minerals. It is highly beneficial in strengthening your gall bladder and production of blood. It is better to drink beet juice in combination with other juice as it is very strong.
Vegetable Juice Fasting Recipes:
Everyone has their own distinct taste and choices but below are listed few examples of vegetable juice recipes. You can try one of the listed below or you can even try different combinations according to your taste, likes and dislikes.
- Try mixing wheatgrass, kale and carrots.
- Instead of wheatgrass in the above combination add spinach.
- Add flavor to your carrot juice with onion, ginger and garlic.
- Try a combination of tomato, cucumber, parsley, celery and broccoli. But remember one thing that you pick fresh and ripe tomatoes for juice.
- To your carrot juices add celery and cucumber.
Make sure that for any vegetable juice you pick the freshest and pesticide free vegetables. Try to avoid storing your juice for longer period. It is always better to consume your vegetable juice immediately. Enjoy all the health benefits of nutritious vegetable juices while you are fasting.
