The nutrient-packed apple, carrot, celery, cucumber and spinach combined with the blood-building properties of beetroot make this juice incredibly healthy.

Ingredients

Apple and carrot base – as much as you like
1 palm-sized raw beetroot
2 sticks of celery
½ medium cucumber
Good handful of spinach
What to do with it

Juice the lot, stir, pour and enjoy.
Recipe from: Vale J. The juice master’s ultimate fast food. London: Thorsons. 2003.

BAO JUICE

Calcium-rich alkaliser. Makes 250 ml, dilute with same quantity water to make 500 ml.

Ingredients

2 apples
½ cucumber
2 to 4 spinach leaves
½ lemon
1 tbsp baobab powder
1 tsp wheatgrass or barley grass powder (optional)
Method

Juice the apples, cucumber, spinach and lemon. Add the baobab powder and grass powder and stir or blend together.