ABC juice is a tasty combination of apple, beetroot, and carrot juice. It is simple to make and requires juicing the 3 ingredients in a juicer.
What are the Benefits of ABC Juice?
Before I started making the ABC Juice I did some research about the benefits and found the following:
1. It great for detoxification, i.e removal of toxic substances from your body.
2. It helps improve blood vessel health by acting as a blood vessel cleaner to avoiding foreign bodies of blood vessels from causing arteriosclerosis to the vessel wall.
3. It helps lower bad cholesterol and blood pressure- so its good for heart health
4. It helps prevent cerebrovascular disease with many blood vessels distributed and is effective in increasing concentration and memory.
5 It has the effect of strengthening the body’s immunity, protecting itself from viral infections and allergies, and discharging the fat accumulated in the internal organs.
ABC Juice Detox Benefits
ABC juice helps you flush out these toxins through removing:
- Water soluble toxins from the kidney
- Fat soluble toxins from the liver
- Undigested toxins from the intentines
- Metabolic toxins from skin,
ABC Juice Nutrients
From a nutrient perspective, the three ingredients contain a whole heap of goodies.
These include:
Apple: Apples are super rich in nutrients including vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, C, E and K, Folate, Niacin, Zinc, Copper, Potassium, Manganese, and Phosphorus. Vitamin C in apples boosts your immune system and nervous system. Not to mention the dietary fibers and antioxidants
Beetroot: Beetroots have high antioxidants and helps boost our immune system and control the growth of bad cholesterol. It has anti-inflammatory properties that protect our liver and is great for our heart. It contains vitamin A, C, B -complex, potassium, iron, magnesium, and copper. The soluble fiber in beetroot fights stored fat in our bodies and help sheds the excess weight.
Carrot: Beta – carotene in carrots helps our body improve the eyes function and immune system. It contains vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B6, C, E, and K and nutrients such as pantothenic acid, niacin, folate. Minerals like phosphorous, calcium, potassium, magnesium, and selenium also exist in carrot. Vitamin A helps in flushing out the toxins from the body and reduces bile and fat from the liver.
In summary, the ABC juice helps remove fat by using the fat as energy so preventing it accumulating in the body. It is supposed to effectively reduces abdominal fat. Now, this is what I’ve found and for me, I drink ABC juice regularly and also do a morning fasted workout. So It can be just the ABC juice or the combination of fasting and exercise. All I can say is my waistline has reduced. Regardless, it tastes good and is full of nutrients. With all things, you need to apply discipline and constancy. It’s a good breakfast replacement in my opinion.
The alkaloid component contained in raw beetroot may contain traces of toxicity and may cause side effects such as digestive disorders, diarrhea, and abdominal pain in the case of digestive or immunity weak people. For those who have a good digestion, boil carrots and beets for 15 minutes to make them.
ABC Juice Side Effects
Tip: The lightly boiled bit softens the tissue of fibrin, increasing the digestive absorption rate in the body more than twice.
If you drink large quantities, the oxalic acid component of the bit may induce kidney stones and gallstones.
How to Choose and Prepare your Ingredients
With any fruit and vegetables you buy there are often traces of pesticides on it. This is due to our modern day industrial farming. There is alot on this topic but I will leave it for a future post. It’s best to buy organic or at least chemical-free produce. Buy from a local farmers market, where possible. Otherwise, make sure you wash your ingredients thoroughly. Peel the apple, carrot and beetroot after wash. If you buy organic fruit and vegetables, just wash, cut and blend.
How to Make ABC juice
Ingredients:
Apple, carrot, beet (1: 1: 0.3 ratio)200 ml water, 1 small lemon (optional), a little ginger (optional)
Preparation:
Lemon Water
To make your lemon liquid add lemon juice from 1 small lemon and mix it together with 200 ml of water. The lemon reduces the bitterness of the juice and makes it taste more refreshing
Now for the ABC Juice component
- Prepare the Beetroot: Some people choose to boil the beetroot while others wish to use the beetroot as is. For me, I boil a batch of beetroot to add to my salad and usually leave a bit for the next morning. Peel the Beetroot skin with a peeler or a potato knife
- Cut apples, carrots, and beetroots put them in a blender. You can remove part of the mixture if you feel like its too thick for you.
- Adds 200ml of lemon juice and water to the mixture for a refreshing taste!
- Now blend it!
- The detox juice is now completed!
Adding Lemon and Ginger give it the extra boost to immunity on top of the existing benefits.
How to juice ginger
Cut up a thumb size amount of ginger into small cubes and add to your blender.
How Thick Should the Juice Be?
For thicker consistency just include all the pulp. This way you can get 100% of fiber-rich in apple carrot beetroot, which is good for intestinal health and removal of visceral fat.
What is the Best Time to Drink ABC Juice?
The best time to make this juice is in the morning. ABC juice has the best absorption rate in the body when taken on an empty stomach in the morning. To maximize its effectiveness, its best to drink it with an empty stomach. I usually combine drinking my ABC Juice straight after I finish my intermittent-fasting.
What if I am Constipated After Drinking ABC Juice?
You may experience constipation after drinking ABC juice. If this is the case, it may be due to excessive fiber intake, drink plenty of water!
Other receipes I can make from the ABC Ingredients
While making the ABC juice, I started to look into how best to eat beetroots. This a nutrient-rich superfood and it’s best to eat it in a few ways when you are preparing for your juice. I would boil them in bulk and then use it for salads.
I made a Spinach, Beetroot, Avocado, and Mango Salad. It’s pretty easy and a good dressing to make is to combine olive oil squeeze a wedge of lemon juice, add a touch of pepper and you’re done.
Final Thoughts
While my other post is about self-improvement, productivity; I am also interested in health, more specifically clean and healthy eating. I will post more about healthy foods in the near future.
So why not give ABC Detox Juice go? Go out and buy yourself the ingredients and make an invigorating ABC Juice today?