I drank bitter gourd juice in the first place because someone told me it was good for blood sugar, and I got about three mouthfuls in before I understood why every recipe online adds apple. Bitter gourd, the pale green knobbly vegetable sold in Asian grocers as karela, is one of the bitterest things you … Read more
There is a stretch of autumn when fennel looks better than anything else in the shop, and this is the glass I make with it. Fennel and orange is an old southern Italian pairing, the sort of thing that turns up sliced into a salad with a bit of olive oil, and it works in … Read more
I keep fresh turmeric root in the fridge for most of the winter, mainly because it turns a plain orange and apple juice into something I would happily pay for. On its own it is earthy, a bit bitter and it stains your fingers yellow for a day, so it is not the sort of … Read more
A clear golden coconut water juice with orange, apple and ginger, built around the one drink in juicing with real rehydration research behind it.
A deep green hedgerow juice made from young nettle tops, cut with sweet apple, cucumber and lemon, plus an honest look at the calcium claims.
Every October I end up with a bag of sea buckthorn and no clear idea what to do with it. The berries are beautiful, bright orange beads packed along thorny grey twigs, and then you taste one and your whole face folds up. They are ferociously sour, sharper than a lemon, and there is no … Read more
A fresh passion fruit juice with orange and apple, sieved clear of the seeds. Around 565 mg of potassium and a little iron a glass, with the honest caveats kept in.
A clean golden-green juice built around fresh mint, the herb with the best published evidence for attention, with sweet apple, a whole orange and half a lemon.
Celeriac is the odd one out in the vegetable rack. It looks like a knobbly turnip that has had a hard life, it is nearly 90 per cent water, and it is a root you can juice without the glass turning into a sugar drink. I started making this one when the celeriac comes into … Read more
Parsley gets treated as a garnish, and online it gets treated as a kidney tonic that will flush you out. Neither does it justice. By a distance it is the richest everyday source of vitamin K there is, and vitamin K is one of the few things a glass of green juice can genuinely deliver … Read more