7 Easy Recipes for Gluten-Free Juices

Do you juice? Did you know that juicing in the morning is beneficial for a healthy and energetic start to our day? Juices have been around for centuries, and since fruits are naturally gluten-free, so are their juices.

The most common fruits for juicing include apple, banana, citrus fruits, berries, peaches, etc. 

The following are 7 easy gluten-free recipes for juicing that you can count on for a healthy start to your day.  

Kale Juice:

Kale juice is an excellent option for everyone, especially those who are opting for a gluten-free lifestyle. Kale is enriched with vitamin K and calcium, increasing your bone density and reducing the risk of osteoporosis.

Mentioned below is a simple kale juice recipe that you can easily add to your morning routine.

Prep time: 5 minutes                        

Serving: 8                   

Ingredients:

• 3-4 stalks organic kale
• 2 stalks organic celery
• 1/3 organic English cucumber
• 1 chunk fresh pineapple (about 3-4 inches cubed) – peeled
• 1/2 lemon -peeled but leave some of the white pith
• 1-inch ginger – peeled

Instructions:

1. Wash all the ingredients carefully with water so that they are nice and clean.
2. Use the cucumber and celery to push each ingredient one by one through the juicer, and then enjoy your fresh kale juice.

Minty Sunshine Juice:

Carrots are a good source of beta carbon, fiber, vitamin K1, potassium, and antioxidants. They help in weight loss, decrease cholesterol levels, and improve eye health. Whereas oranges are rich in vitamin C, helping regulate blood pressure, controlling sugar level, and lowering cancer risk.

Following is a simple juice recipe to help you start your day with a fresh perspective.

Prep time: 5 minutes                      

Serving:1                 

Ingredients:

• 2 Oranges
• 3 Carrots
• 1 knuckle Raw Ginger
• 4 Sprigs of Fresh Mint
• 1 small handful of ice

Instructions:

• Peel the oranges and make sure to leave a white pith on since that's where the majority of nutrients are.
• Peel the carrots and ginger, juice them, and the few sprigs of mints to give it a fresh and refreshing taste.
• Pour the juice into a glass of ice and enjoy your minty sunshine juice.

Detox Juice Recipe:

This juice gets its name from removing toxic substances from the body, known as detoxification. The liver mainly carries out the process of detoxification. This simple 5-minute detox juice recipe consists of all the necessary ingredients that will help detoxify your body.

Detoxification's main benefits include weight loss, help with digestion, reduces inflammation, and improves skin. This drink recipe is sure to give you a positive boost to start your day.

Prep time: 5 minutes                              

Serving: 1

Ingredients:

• 3 Apples
• 1 Carrot
• Slice of Lemon
• 1/4 Yellow Bell Pepper
• 1″ slice of Cucumber
• 1/4 Celery Stalk
• Small piece of Broccoli
• 1″ slice of Raw Beetroot
• 1 Avocado
• 1 small handful of ice

Instructions: 

1. Place one apple in the juicer and then add all the other ingredients except the avocado.
2. After getting an excellent juicy texture, place a couple of ice cubes in a blender along with peeled avocado.
3. Then, add the juice from the juicer and blend until you get a lovely creamy and smooth detox juice.

Sunset Sparkle juice: 

As exciting and delicious as the name sounds, the taste is even better. The sunset sparkle juice is a mixture of pineapple, grapefruit, ginger root, and sparkling water. Grapefruits are rich in antioxidants and reduce the risk of kidney stones.

Additionally, it's low in calories yet high in nutrients. Simultaneously, pineapple can ease digestion, boost immunity, and reduce symptoms of arthritis.

Mentioned below is a simple 5-minute recipe that you can always count on for an energetic start or even help you out after an evening walk.

Prep time: 5 minutes                                     

Serving: 1

Ingredients:

• Pineapple: 1/3 Medium
• Pink Grapefruit: 1 Medium (Peeled)
• Fresh Ginger Root: 1 small knuckle
• Sparkling Mineral Water: 1 Small bottle
• Ice Cubes: 1 Small handful

Instructions:

1. Peel the grapefruit, but make sure to leave the white pith on.
2. After that, juice the pineapple with ginger and grapefruit.
3. Pour the fresh juice into a glass until it is two-thirds full.
4. Add the sparkling water.

Ruby Tuesday Juice Recipe:

This juice is called a ruby Tuesday because of its ruby-like color due to the presence of beetroot in it. A great source of fiber, beetroots also contain manganese, potassium, iron, and vitamin C.

This juice also contains ginger, which has potent medicinal properties that help in anti-inflammation and anti-oxidation. Ginger can also treat many forms of nausea, especially morning sickness. Known for lowering blood sugar and helping reduce menstrual pain.

Following is a simple ruby Tuesday juice recipe to kick start your day.

Prep time: 5 minutes                                           

Serving: 1

Ingredients:

• 1/4 medium pineapple (without the skin)
• 2 medium carrots
• 1 small bulb raw beetroot
• 1 knuckle ginger root
• 4 sprigs of fresh basil
• 1 small handful of ice cubes

Instruction: 

1. Clean all your fruit, and then peel the ingredients that need peeling.
2. Add all of them to the juicer, preferably in small amounts, to ensure you get the most out of the fruits. Blend them.
3. Serve in a glass with ice cubes. 

Perfection juice recipe:

Who would miss the chance of calling this recipe perfection, right? No one because this delicious recipe that includes peaches makes a flavorful juice. Peaches have lots of nutrients and antioxidants. They improve heart health, digestion and reduce allergy symptoms as well.

Mentioned below is the recipe to make this perfection juice.

Prep time: 5 minutes                             

Serving: 1

Ingredients:

• 1 Apple
• 2 Pears
• 1 Parsnip
• 1/4 Cucumber
• 1/2 Lime (Peeled with the pith left on)
• Fresh Mint (1 small handful)
• Ice (1 small handful)

Instructions:

1. Clean all your fruit, and then peel the ingredients that need peeling.
2. Add all of them to the juicer, preferably in small amounts, to ensure you get the most out of the fruits. Blend them.
3. Serve in a glass with ice cubes. 

Super Juice Recipe:

This simple yet loaded with vegetable juice recipe is sure to leave you asking for more. It consists of one fruit, and the rest is all vegetables. With a low glycemic index, celery is rich in vitamins and minerals.

When eating celery, you'll enjoy vitamins A, K, and C, plus minerals like potassium and folate. Moreover, it's low in sodium and glycemic index, meaning your blood sugar has a slow, steady impact.

Following is the recipe to pull off this amazing, full of nutrients juice.

Prep time: 5 minutes                           

Serving: 1

Ingredients:

• 1 Large Handful of Mixed Green Leaves (kale, spinach, collards, etc.)
• 2 organic royal apples
• A Small Chunk of Carrot
• ½ Stick Celery
• 1 Inch Slice of Cucumber
• ½ Inch Chunk of Broccoli Stem
• 1 Small Handful of Alfalfa Sprouts (or similar)
• ¼ Inch Slice Raw of Beetroot
• ¼ Inch Slice of Zucchini
• 1 Small Piece of Lemon 
• ¼ Inch Slice of Ginger
• Ice

Instructions:

1. Clean all the ingredients, peel those who require peeling.
2. Cut them up and then put them all in the juicer.
3. Take a glass and add little ice cubes according to your liking, pour the juice and enjoy! 

What to avoid?

You have to be careful when following a gluten-free diet, y regarding everything you consume. Even processed fruits and vegetables can have gluten in them. The best option is to read the ingredient label of every item you buy so that you can be satisfied that there is gluten in your ingredients.

The best tip is to go for fresh produce only, no processed fruits or vegetables from the store. Similarly, most people have the habit of eating crackers, bread, or wraps with their juices. So it is better to avoid wheat crackers, bread, and flour tortillas.

Benefits of juicing:

Some think juicing is better than eating whole fruits and vegetables because your body can better absorb the nutrients. Additionally, it is also assumed that it provides a break from digesting fiber to your digestive system.

Juicing can reduce your cancer risk, strengthen the immune system, eliminate toxins from your body, help digestion, and encourage weight loss. If you don't love fruits and veggies, this might be the way to add them to your diet.

Juicing supporters argue that juicing is a healthy way to get a bounty of fruits and vegetables and consume nutrients. You can squeeze out the vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals present in fruits and vegetables by juicing them.

However, you also lose fiber, a part of fruits and vegetables that contributes to satiety and helps boost heart and digestive health.

You will get greater doses of micronutrients and phytochemicals, but you would still get more sugar and calories. You're merely intaking the sugar in larger quantities without the fiber than with whole fruit and vegetables.

So, what's the solution to this problem to maintain a healthy diet? By consuming mainly vegetable juice, you can minimize the amount of sugar you get. Low-sugar vegetables are kale, cucumber, and celery, which are delicious choices for juicing or sticking to a 4-ounce fruit juice serving (that is the amount equal to a whole fruit serving).

On a 2,000-calorie diet, you should get at least 2.5 cups of vegetables and 2 cups of fruit every day. One way to increase your consumption might be juice, but whole fruits and vegetables should also be part of your everyday diet.

Tips for juicing: 

The following are the tips that will help you on your gluten-free juicing journey:

• Greens may be bitter, but they are packed with loads of nutrients. A little goes a long way. A large number of green vegetables may upset your stomach. To reduce that bitterness, you can always use a little lemon.

• Get a machine that can juice both your fruits and vegetables at the same time. The best option is a slow juice machine, which adds less heat and oxygen to maintain the nutrients.

• It is sufficient to strip rough skins, such as pineapple and avocado, and any pits and seeds. But the apple's skin and the peel of any citrus fruits are edible (except for the orange) and are full of nutrients. The pith, the fluffy white substance right below the rind, has nutrients as well.

• To some point, whatever gets on the skin of fruits or vegetables will be consumed. Rinsing your vegetables and fruit against bacteria is very useful, but not against pesticides and fertilizers. Anything called ‘organic' suggests that these compounds are free from it.

• Another tip to stop your berries from getting mold is to spray or rinse your berries. Make a solution of 1:10 ratio vinegar and water, respectively. Let them sit for a while, and then let them dry naturally. Consequently, you won't taste any vinegar, and this will also help them last a week without getting all moldy.

• A helpful tip for juicing is that when the juice is freshly poured out of the juicer, drink it immediately. You will want to do this because the rich nutrients will begin to reduce within minutes. So the best option is to drink it right away.

• According to research conducted, our body absorbs nutrients better in the morning. Hence, it's best to have those juices in the morning.

• Thick or thin? The ideal juice consistency depends on your preference. If you want to go for a thick consistency, add more fruits and veggies to the juicer. A watery juice calls for a little water if you feel the liquid is too viscous for your liking.

• You don't have to stick to recipes for juicing once you get the hang of it. Mix and match the ingredients you want for that ultimate flavor for your taste buds. What's important is that you don't go all-in with the fruits while forgetting the vegetables. They're equally important!

Final Words:

In conclusion, it's safe to say that all fresh, organic fruits and vegetables are gluten-free. However, it would help if you steered away from processed fruits and vegetables.

And in case you are adding other ingredients to your juice recipes rather than fruit and vegetables. It's best to read the ingredients list so that you aren't adding any unwanted ingredients to the drink.

Without a doubt, juicing fruits and vegetables is a great way to add them to your diet.