Blushing garden juice

Juices are absorbed so quickly by our systems. The best way to savor a juice is to “chew” it first in your mouth to activate the salivary process of digestion. On an empty stomach, juices absorb through the stomach lining, taking much less energy to digest. Beets and their greens are a great liver cleanser, and lemon juice stimulates the liver to make enzymes. So this is a good liver toning drink. Recipe from  Warming Up to Living Foods by Elysa Markowitz.

Serves: 2

• 6 to 8 carrots
• 1 beet
• 2 beet green leaves
• 2 stalks celery
• 1/2 unwaxed cucumber
• 1 lemon, cut in wedges

Juice the carrots, beet, greens, celery, and cucumber together.

Serve in fancy glasses, running some cut lemon around the rim of each glass and garnishing with a lemon wedge.

Reprinted by permission of The Book Publishing Company. 

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