The Ten Best Cleansing Vegetable Juices for Detox

“Eat your vegetables!” Do you remember yourself in front of that plate full of green enemies? On the other side of the table, your parents staring at you in a challenging way. By that time, you were neither aware of how vital veggies were for your growing up nor their healing properties. To cap it all, the flavor of those green goodies was not particularly tempting for you. Now you are an adult and regret you had missed such opportunities of enhancing your body in those early times.

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However, you have found a second chance in a cleansing program for detoxing based on vegetable juices. So, during three days or a week, you will have nothing but liquids coming from the greens you once hated that much. You owe it to yourself. Of course, no one is quitting pork chops or macaroni and cheese, at least for now. But, to plan your diet, you may want to start looking for the best combinations of juices for detox. At the same time, you want to enjoy flavors hidden in those healing elixirs. Hence, there you have the ten best cleansing vegetable juices for detox.

1. Popeye’s Pride
   
   In those cases, when you need some extra cleansing, spinach will do the job. For adding a refreshing flavor, lemon will work it out along with the lemon. Here is the recipe:

• 1 pound spinach
• ½ pound celery
• 1 lemon
• ¼ pound parsley

First get the spinach and lemon to the juicer altogether. Then, add parsley and celery. Stir well and drink it before facing your “Brutus.”
 

2. Beet Cool, Dude
   
   Powerful detoxifying food and at the same time, a remarkable red blood cells regenerator. Now add to the mix the refreshing taste cucumbers and carrots have, just delicious! Another plus, this beverage has a fame helping the hair growth. How to prepare it:

• ½ beet
• ½ cucumber
• 5 carrots

Get your juicer and take care of the carrots and the beet. Next, take them to the juicer adding the cucumber. Stir well and enjoy right away.
 

3. Green Garlic Monster
   
   Perfect option for breakfast, not only for its delicious flavor but for the energy you will get from it. The lovely natural color you will get after preparing it is an invitation to pep. The recipe as follows:

• ½ cucumber
• ½ pound spinach
• ½ cup cabbage
• 3 carrots
• 1 garlic clove

Just process everything in your juicer, stir well. And give your immune system a nutritional boost.

4. Skinny Salsa Sauce
   
   Low in calories but high in flavor. If you want to boost your metabolism, this is the perfect combination. Your body will increase the usage of oxygen thank the amount of chlorophyll in this recipe. Therefore, you will lose unhealthy weight. Ingredients as follows:

• ¼ pound green onions
• ¼ pound wheatgrass
• ¼ pound lemongrass
• ¼ pound cilantro
• 1 pound tomatoes
• 1 lime

Start by processing onions, wheatgrass, and lemongrass in the juicer. Then add the cilantro, tomatoes, finishing with the lime. Stir well to combine, and that is it; enjoy.
 

5. Perfect Pepper Picker-Upper
   
   Monday morning and you need something to get motivated for starting the week with energy. Try the Mexican style! Here it is how to prepare it:

• ½ jalapeño pepper
• ½ pound cucumber
• ½ pound green bell peppers
• ½ pound arugula

Process the jalapeño and bell peppers in the juicer. Then add the cucumber and arugula. Stir well and fell the mariachi style!
 

6. See Your Way to Beauty Juice
   
   Stop asking the mirror who is the most beautiful person, just tell yourself you are! After having this elixir as part of your weekly routine, your skin and eyes will blossom. By the way, for additional flavor and even more nutritious charge, add some powdered cinnamon. What you need:

• ½ pound carrots.
• ½ pound cucumber
• ½ pound sweet potatoes
• ½ pound carrot greens
• ¼ pound arugula
• ¼ pound lemongrass

Take the carrots, cucumber, and the sweet potatoes in a juicer, then the carrot greens and arugula. Finally, add the lemongrass. Stir well to combine and make Snow White green with envy!
 

7. Super loaded tomato juice
   
   Just imagine you are having a tomato gazpacho but packed with antioxidants, essential nutrients, alkaline buffers, and live enzymes. Warning: take your time to enjoy this savory juice so that you can get all of its benefits little by little. Ingredients are:

• 5 tomatoes
• 2 ribs celery
• 2 green onions
• 1 handful kale
• ⅓ flat leaf parsley
• ⅓ cup cilantro
• 1 carrot, scrubbed
• ½ red bell pepper
• ½ lemon, peeled
• 1 clove garlic
• Pinch of sea salt
• Pinch of cayenne pepper

Just take all the goodies to the juicer, strain through a fine-mesh sieve, and enjoy the flavor.

8. Veggie Carotene Catapult
   
   Everyone wants to prevent cancer and retard aging. This combination is not a miracle but will help your body a lot with these two issues. You will need:

• 3 carrots
• ½ sweet potato
• 1 red bell pepper
• 1spear broccoli

Take all the ingredients to your juicer, stir well. You can toss your Dorian Gray’s self-portrait.

9. Fat burning juice
   
   No more Homer Simpson’s belly. Having a glass of this beverage for breakfast will naturally burn that unhealthy fat. Ingredients:

• A handful of spinach
• ½ cucumber
• 3 spears of celery
• ½ pound parsley
• ½ lemon

Process the spinach along with the parsley and celery in the juicer. Add the cucumber and lemon. Stir well to combine. Enjoy your meal!

10. Flat Belly juice
    
    Another helper for making you suit into that college dress you loved so much. Ingredients:

• ½ pound spinach
• 1 cucumber
• ½ pound celery
• ½ pound chard
• 2 lemons

Just take all the goodies to the juicer, stir well to combine and complement this healthy diet with a good training program to exercise your body.

Searching the internet will give you a massive number of recipes based on veggies for you to detox, so what we have just recommended you is the best selection we have found after doing some research. We also paid attention to the importance of flavor for making this experience not only healthy but the most pleasant as possible. Probably in the very beginning of your detox plan, you will feel the lack of “substance” your body was used to, but give it some time while you establish that sensation.

Once you “get into it,” you might decide to continue with this way of nourishing as a daily routine. That will be your choice. The truth is, veggies are the best sources of antioxidants, and they fight free radicals, which are chemicals that damage our body cells. But, we should not forget that we get (and need) a variety of nutrient-rich foods from all the food groups. So, before making a strict change, ask for a medical checkup and let your doctor advise you. By the way, you need to drink enough water to both adapting to the process and flushing all the toxins out. We hope you to enjoy the process to a greener and healthier you!

References:

1. Jhon Chatham. (2012) Telamon Press Green Juicing Diet Green Juice Detox Plan for Beginners-Includes Green Smoothies and Green Juice Recipes [273], 52-61