As a registered Dietician Nutritionist, I get asked a lot about celery juice. It certainly has a lot of healthy qualities but not everyone can get past the taste. So I’m made a video and wrote this post to talk to you about how to make celery juice taste good.
I’m going to share the secret ingredients that I use. And if you watch the video, I’ll walk you through actually making it.
Table of Contents
Video | Making it Taste Good | Benefits of Celery | Recipe
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How to Make Celery Juice Taste Good
My secret to making celery juice taste good are four ingredients: green apple, pineapple, lemon, and ginger root.
For my recipe, I add one green apple which adds a little sweetness. If you don’t like green apples but like other apples, you are certainly free to substitute.
My recipe also calls for pineapple, which adds its own a sweetness kick to our celery juice. Pineapple is very soft and may clog your juicer. One trick to help prevent this is to alternate between softer produce like pineapple and more firm produce like apple and ginger.
The second trick is to use lemon. You could also use lime, but lemon is excellent and is going to add a little bit of that tart flavor to balance some of the spinach and celery taste.
And then for a spicy kick, I add ginger. All I do is cut about a 1 inch piece of ginger and peel it.
And that’s it! Those are my three favorite ingredients to make celery juice taste good.
Benefits of Celery Juice
There are several benefits of drinking celery juice. We cover this in some detail on our How to Make Celery Juice article. The main benifits I cover in this article is hydration, X, and Y.
Hydration
When you juice celery, you end up with a lot of water, which is primarily what fruits and vegetables are made of. The water you get from juicing fruits and vegetables will definitely going to help with hydration.
We use cucumber in this recipe, which is also primarily water. So we get a lot of hydration from that as well.
Gut Health
Celery juice is also excellent for your gut health. Fruits and vegetables contain a lot of fiber. The way I describe it to my clients is that fiber binds to the bad bacteria in your gut and then allows you to eliminate it. This also helps you by reducing bloating.
A lot of people complain about being bloated. Celery juice, may help you decrease bloating in your digestive system.
Vitamins & Nutrients
There are a lot of vitamins and nutrients in items using in this recipe.
Celery is full of vitamin K. This recipe also calls for spinach, which is also full of vitamin K and iron.
We use pineapple, lemon, and apple in this recipe, which contain vitamin C. And as you probably know, Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that also promotes your immune system.
Tips & Suggestions
- Buy chopped pineapple to save time. I’ve found when I don’t, I don’t make this celery juice recipe as much as I’d like.
- Use real ginger root. It can last months in your refrigerator and it tastes better–and is more nutritious–than powdered ginger.
- If this recipe still doesn’t do it for you, try adding mint.
- In this video, I’m using the Hurom HP Slow Juicer. Be sure to check out our review of the Hurom HP Slow Juicer.
Recipe
Celery Juice that Actually Tastes Good
Difficulty: Moderate1
servings30
minutesIngredients
1 green apple, sliced
1 lemon, peeled
1 one-inch piece of fresh ginger root, peeled
5 to 6 ounces of pineapple chunks
1 medium cucumber, peeled and chopped
5 stalks of celery, cleaned and chopped
Directions
- Prepare all produce
- Insert all produce into your juicer until everything has been juiced
- Enjoy immediately or store your juice for 24 – 72 hours, depending upon the type of juicer you have.
