Green juices are the superstar of the health world. They are the power-packed sources of many servings of fruit, green vegetables, herbs, and other superfoods available in a single, easy-to-drink form. They are the best natural medicine we can provide our bodies as they are amazingly nutrient-dense and have an incredible list of health benefits. Here are ten health benefits you can expect with daily green juice.
Health Benefits of Green Vegetable Juices
Drinking green juices benefit the body in many ways. Let's look at them in detail below.
1. Alkalizes Your Body
There's sufficient evidence available, which shows that a diet low in acid-producing foods and high in alkaline foods like fruits and veggies could help prevent the risk of diabetes, kidney stones, keep muscles and bones strong, improve heart health and brain function and reduce the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. Consuming plenty of green vegetables and phytochemical enriched fruits like kale, spinach, berries help to maintain the body's alkalinity. And the easiest way to add all those fruits and vegetables in a single serving is a glass of green juice.
2. Body Cleanse and Detoxify
Our body is constantly exposed to medicine (Drugs), pesticides, pollution, chemicals, toxins, etc. All these toxins put a huge strain on the body. Green juices help you cleanse your body naturally and more effectively, especially if you are adding cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, Brussels sprouts into it. It detoxifies the liver. Also, consuming green juice every day strengthens your body to detoxify or cleanse all those toxins you are exposed to on a daily basis, particularly in the liver and kidneys.
3. Naturally Heal Your Body
Green juices are loaded with natural multivitamins such as natural antioxidants, enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes that are easily digestible and quickly absorbed. Drinking one or two glasses a day will help in healing fast from chronic disease, injury, and surgery and speed up recovery from an illness. It will also boost your health by providing you more energy, boost the immune system, detoxify your body, and help in fighting inflammation (anti-inflammatory) in your body.
4. All-Day Energy
When your body is starved of essential electrolytes and nutrients, it simply stops working efficiently, leaving you feeling tired and exhausted. At this time, a glass of green juice provides your body exactly what it needs. They are packed with essential electrolytes, especially when leafy greens like kale, spinach, Brussel sprouts, alfalfa, etc. are added to the juice. They contain sodium (Na), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and potassium (K), along with other essential B vitamins and minerals. B Vitamins provide the body with energy by converting carbohydrates into glucose. They instantly uplift the energy levels, unlike sugar drinks that leave you feeling more tired and irritated.
5. May Delay Signs of Aging
If you don’t eat a wide variety of vegetables, fruit, berries, herbs, and spices you are missing out on some key components of wellness. Such as natural Antioxidants and phytochemicals. Antioxidants protect your body from free-radical or oxidative damage, which contributes to physical signs of aging such as wrinkles, dry and saggy skin.
Antioxidants rich foods help to fight free-radicals and increase our skin's natural protection from UV sun damage. The best source for antioxidants rich foods are Berries like strawberry, blueberries, black current, raspberries, blackberries, bilberry, raspberry, chokeberry, elderberry, and green veggies like spinach, kale, alfalfa, aloe Vera, basil, chlorella, moringa, oregano, etc. Also leafy greens – particularly Kale – are very rich in Lutein- a natural antioxidant that not just helps to fight free-radicals but also helps with skin hydration and elasticity.
vitamin C rich fruits and veggies also help to repair and rebuild collagen protein and elastic fibres in the skin and connective tissues making the skin soft and youthful. These protective benefits only came from plant greens. And green juice provides you multiple servings of those nutritious superfoods to boost your antioxidant intake.
6. Natural Immunity Booster
The addition of green juices is one of the best ways to support a healthy immune system because they are packed full of nutrition. Our immune system needs specific nutrients to run properly. But these nutrients need to be constantly replenished. If they aren’t replenished from time to time, things stop working. Vitamin A, C, zinc, and selenium boost your immune function and is a powerful antioxidant.
For example, zinc (Zn) deficiency can make you significantly more vulnerable to catching the flu. Similarly, vitamin C is also a must to boost your immunity. Green vegetables are the richest source of immunity-boosting vitamin C and other nutrients. Hence drinking green juice every day is an easy way to replenish all those nutrients that your immune system requires.
7. May Aid in Weight Loss
Green Juices made of green vegetables, fibrous fruits, berries, and herbs are very low in calories and high in nutrients like Vitamin A, C, K, and dietary fibers. Green Juice can be a great substitute for the typical snacks, breakfast, or lunch to keep our daily calorie intake low. This further helps us to lose weight. It may also act as a metabolism booster and help your body in burning those unwanted calories.
Additionally, they offer a host of vitamins and minerals that your body requires on a daily basis to function well. You can also begin seeing other benefits such as a bolstered immunity, better digestion, a fall in allergies, balanced hormones, and reduced risk of chronic illnesses and diseases.
Green juices can also help in cleansing and detoxifying the body, which can be a great way to shed weight as well as toxins that cause infections and diseases in the body.
8. Bioavailable Nutrients
Green juices contain natural vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, along with nutritional co-factors and enzymes, in their most bioavailable form. Therefore, they are well absorbed in our bodies. In short, a glass of green juice acts as a multivitamin supplement in its best bioavailable form.
9. Hydrate your Body
Green Juices mostly contain water. It will aid in hydration, which is required for your body to function properly. You can substitute your morning cup of tea or coffee with a glass of green juice. Although these caffeinated drinks are diuretics, they tend to dehydrate the body. However, a glass of green vegetable juice keeps the body hydrated, thanks to the electrolytes and water present in it. It will also keep you away from drinking sugary drinks.
10. Easy way to add more veggies to the diet
Green juices are the easiest way to ensure that you are consuming the recommended servings of greens. It’s a lot easier to drink a glass of kale, celery, and cucumber juice rather than eating them whole. Green juices are a wonderful way to consume green leafy vegetables on a regular basis.
Go Green with DAILY-GREENS
No Doubt, Green juices are one of the best ways to nourish our bodies. They provide a wide variety of nutrients that can help boost immunity, cleanse and detoxify the body and elevate energy levels from time to time. However, due to our busy schedule, we are not always able to prepare a quick salad or juice our greens. However, if you keep Wellbeing Nutrition's Daily Greens handy, you'll not only be able to replenish your nutrients from time to time but will also be able to help you achieve your health goals and become the best version of yourself.
References:
- Health benefit of vegetable/fruit juice-based diet: Role of microbiome, Susanne M. Henning, Jieping Yang, Paul Shao, Ru-Po Lee, Jianjun Huang, Austin Ly, Mark Hsu, Qing-Yi Lu, Gail Thames, David Heber, and Zhaoping Li, Scientific Reports, 2017, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-02200-6, (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5438379/)
- Green Juice in Human Metabolism: A Randomized Trial, Marina Chiochetta, Eduarda Jardim Ferreira, Isabel Taís da Silva Moreira, Richard Chuquel Silveira de Avila, Journal of American College of Nutrition,2018, DOI:10.1080/07315724.2018.1457458, (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324815274_Green_Juice_in_Human_Metabolism_A_Randomized_Trial)
- Green (Detox) juice physicochemical properties and stabilization effect of naturals emulsifiers, Jully Lacerda Fraga, Gizele Cardoso Fontes Sant’Ana, Kelly Alencar Silva, Priscilla Filomena Fonseca Amaral, Food Technology Journal, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-8478cr20190739,(https://www.scielo.br/j/cr/a/zCgDsSVCtLzgG6VFHbGXq5w/?lang=en)
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