Clementine & Carrot Morning Sunshine Juice

It’s interesting how sometimes we fall in and out of habits.

For a few years, I was using my juicer all the time. Making a morning green juice became something that I did several days a week. After all, I do love getting in a hefty dose of fruits & veggies first thing in the day to power me through the morning!

But somewhere along the line last year, I stopped using my juicer at home. I was still drinking green juice, I was just buying it out instead of preparing it myself.

I blame having to clean the juicer on my juice making laziness. I mean, let’s be honest, that thing is kind of a pain to clean!

Even so, I’ve decided to bring my at-home juicing habit back in 2017. I got back into my Jack LaLanne Power Juicer groove – which I swiped from my parents’ garage after it sat there unused for years and shipped it all the way across the country for me to use, starting my juice making craze – with today’s juice recipe: the Morning Sunshine Juice.

This juice combines a couple of winter produce favorites. We’ve got clementines, carrots, and radishes – with some ginger root added into the mix because I dig ginger in fresh juice. A little ginger gives juice a big zing!

Let’s talk about some of the benefits of this juice:

• High in Vitamin C and potassium and believed to help maintain healthy bones and aid in digestion, clementines are bite-sized nutritional powerhouses.
• Carrots and clementines contain beta-carotene – a form of Vitamin A that is great for your skin, hair and eye health.
• Carrots are a root veggie high in antioxidants. They’re rich in a whole slew of things, including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K,  folate, potassium, iron, copper, and manganese.
• Radishes are also high in folate and potassium, and have antibacterial and detoxifying properties.
• With powerful anti-inflammatory effects, ginger is used in alternate medicine to help cure a variety of sicknesses – including nausea, the flu, the common cold and digestion issues.

The little glass packs a powerful health punch!

In fact, this juice contains 350 mg of Vitamin A (which is over 3x the recommended daily amount!) and 159 mg of Vitamin C (about 100 mg is recommended daily). Not too shabby!

Clementine & Carrot Morning Sunshine Juice

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Prep Time 2 minutes mins

Total Time 2 minutes mins

Servings 1 glass,

Calories 145 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 2 clementines
• 2 large carrots
• 2 large radishes about 3 oz
• 1- inch chunk of ginger root

Instructions

 

• Cut all ingredients into chunks, then juice everything into a glass.
• Add ice, stir, and drink up the goodness!

Nutrition

Calories: 145kcalCarbohydrates: 33gProtein: 3gFat: 1gSugar: 22g

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Tell me… Are you a fresh juice drinker? What’s one healthy habit you’re getting back into this year?