Recipes

A deep purple elderberry juice with apple, ginger and lemon. The berries are cooked first, because raw elderberries are not safe to eat, and the glass is sweetened with fruit rather than sugar.

A thick golden date, apple and ginger juice sweetened with nothing but Medjool dates, and an honest look at what is actually in the glass.

A green juice made from fresh moringa leaves, cucumber, green apple and lime, with an honest look at what moringa does and does not do for your bones.

Raw white cabbage pressed with apple, lemon and ginger, the honest version of the old stomach remedy, with the real story behind the 1949 study and the cautions that matter.

A raw, no-added-sugar lemongrass juice with apple and cucumber. Why simmering lemongrass in sugar syrup loses the very thing you are juicing it for.

A winter citrus juice that works as a drink rather than a dessert: two Meyer lemons, one apple and two cucumbers, about 92 calories and 14 g of sugar a glass.

A vivid magenta juice made from mild dragon fruit, sweet apples and a squeeze of lime, with an honest look at what pitaya does and does not do for your gut.

Fresh tomato juice made in a juicer or blender with celery, one carrot and half a lemon. About 70 kcal and 800 mg of potassium a glass, with the honest note on lycopene.

Bok choy has about the same calcium on the label as spinach, but roughly ten times more of it is available. Here it is with apple, cucumber and lemon, at about 175 mg of calcium a glass.

Blood oranges, carrot and ginger, juiced. Why the fruit is only red when the nights are cold, why you have to peel away the pith, and why blood orange is not grapefruit.