This sweet and tart green juice is a great way to start your morning! Made with spinach, citrus, and fruit, it's healthy and delicious.
This green juice is loaded with spinach, limes, lemons, bananas, apples, and pears with a touch of honey and water to blend it all together.
You can tweak this green juice to suit your taste but do not leave out the citrus and spinach part. This is the base of the drink and it pairs well with the honey and other ingredients.
Green Juice Ingredients
- Fresh Spinach
- Bananas
- Pears
- Apples
- Lemons
- Limes
- Honey. If you prefer, you can make a honey simple syrup and store any extra in the fridge for other drinks.
- Water
There is a lot of good stuff going on in this juice as you can see from the ingredients list. When I make this juice, it just makes sense to make a few of them ahead of time.
I do this with my Switchel hydrating drink too.
I like to store the prepped versions that have not been blended in my fridge for when I need a quick boost of energy. It just makes sense to prep all at once.
Preparing this green juice ahead of time
When I prep my ingredients ahead of time, I like to store them in working jars as seen in the picture. When it is time for me to make my juice, I just grab one from the refrigerator and dump it into my Vitamix blender.
I add a little honey and water and blitz away. They are super easy and this guarantees that I am going to drink them every day (because I am lazy sometimes).
Variations
You can make this into a spinach smoothie by adding some ice to the blender instead of water. I like the juice because I feel like it is less filling.
If you prefer smoothies then by all means make it that way! You can also freeze bags of the prepped fruit in the freezer and blend this all up to get a delicious thick smoothie if you don't want to add ice.
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Sweet and Tart Green Juice
Equipment
- High powered blender like Vitamix or Blendtec
Ingredients
- ½ bananas sliced
- ½ granny smith apple cut into sections (you do not have to remove the skin)
- ½ Asian Pears ( I like the red ones) cut into sections (you do not have to remove the skin)
- 2 cups fresh spinach
- 2 limes juiced
- 2 small lemons juiced
- honey to taste
- ¼ cup water
Instructions
- Prep all of your ingredients above (slice your apples and pears, cut up your banana, etc.)½ bananas, ½ granny smith apple, ½ Asian Pears ( I like the red ones), 2 cups fresh spinach
- Juice your lemons and limes into a bowl being careful to remove all of the seeds2 limes, 2 small lemons
- Dump all of the ingredients into a high powdered blender (I use a Vitamix)
- Add water½ bananas, ¼ cup water
- Add honey or sweetener of your choice (I add about 1 tablespoon)honey to taste
- Blend on the smoothie function for the time programmed on your blender (about 1 minute and medium and 30 seconds on high)
- When done, pour into your glass and enjoy
Notes
- Get out 4 containers with lids.
- Increase the recipe by 4 at the top of the recipe card.
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Divide all of your apples, pears, and bananas evenly into your containers
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Now add fresh spinach to each container
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Next evenly divide the citrus into your 4 containers
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Place the lids on the containers.
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Give a gentle swirl to your containers to distribute the citrus juice over your ingredients (to prevent browning)
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Place the containers in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
- Juice when you are ready to drink them.
Nutrition
Nutrition Values are estimates only.
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Tara says
So delicious!
Melissa says
Glad you enjoyed it Tara!
Bethany says
This green juice was delicious!
Melissa says
Hi Bethany. I am so glad you enjoyed the juice 🙂
Kate says
Just made this tonight, it's so good the pear taste really comes through. It's fantastic, and so healthy 😊
Melissa says
Hi Kate. I am so glad you enjoyed it! I love drinking this for a quick me up and love that it tastes good and is good for you 🙂