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.
A fresh cranberry juice with no sugar in it, sweetened with ripe pear and sharpened with ginger, plus an honest look at what the cranberry and UTI evidence actually says.
A pale Jerusalem artichoke and apple juice where the inulin survives the strain, plus why the tubers give some people wind.
A gently bitter artichoke, apple and cucumber juice with lemon. What the one real trial of artichoke juice actually found, and why the hearts are the part to use.
I keep a pot of lemon balm by the back door because it grows like a weed and smells like a lemon you can hold in your hand. Most of it ends up in this glass: two green apples, half a cucumber, a small forest of leaves and half a lemon. I make it on … Read more
I did not believe the numbers until I added them up for myself. Strawberries are the lowest-sugar fruit most of us have sitting in the fruit bowl, about 4.9 g per 100 g, against roughly 10 g for an apple, 12 g for a banana and 16 g for grapes. Which is why a strawberry … Read more
I only picked up a pack of kumquats the first time because they were sitting next to the oranges looking like someone had shrunk a citrus fruit for a joke. Then I read the back of the punnet: eat whole, skin and all. That is the entire trick with a kumquat, and it took me … Read more
Pomelo is the fruit grapefruit was bred from. This is a mild, sweet-sharp citrus juice with two apples and half a lemon, plus the medication caution that comes with the grapefruit family.
A fresh amla juice with apple and orange. Indian gooseberries are one of the richest natural sources of vitamin C, and four of them make a sharp, clean glass.