Your liver is one of the coolest organs in your body. When most people think of the liver, they immediately associate it with cleaning alcohol out of your system. This is true, but your precious liver actually has numerous functions, including producing bile to help digest fats, converting glucose into glycogen for energy storage, producing cholesterol necessary for hormone production, processing hemoglobin from red blood cells for iron storage, regulating blood clotting, regulating amino acids and builds proteins, and helping to clean your blood of toxins and and pathogens, like bacteria. That’s quite a bit of work for one organ!
Beets are one of the best foods for keeping your liver running smoothly and efficiently. They are chock full of important vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, which are essential in detoxifying and healing the liver from the wears and tears of it’s daily work. Juicing beets is especially effective, as it keeps the antioxidant betaine intact, which encourages the liver to release toxins.
To keep your liver working beautifully, try this delicious Beet Lime Juice for your breakfast or as a snack.
Ingredient
- 1 beet, trimmed and peeled
- greens from 1 beet
- 1/2 bunch romaine
- 1 cucumber
- 2 stalks celery
- 1 green apple
- 1/2 lime, peeled
- 1″ chunk ginger
Directions
1. Clean all of the ingredients well, and run through a juicer. Repeat if desired, to obtain the remainder of the juice.
For other yummy ways to include beets in your diet check out these recipes:
How do you like to eat your beets?
<3 Lindsay
For the”greens from one beet” would that be the stems? I’ve never juiced beets before but the recipe looks and sounds yummy!
The beets that I buy come with the full stems/leaves attached. I cut them off, cleaned them, and juiced them. They aren’t 100% necessary if your beets are already de-leaved, but they pack a lot of good nutrients.
I just got my grandmother’s old juicer over Christmas and my go-to juice is carrot-apple-beet-lemon-ginger but I switched it up with the recipe. It was great! (I omitted the celery and beet greens). It was my first time juicing Romaine (or any greens, actually). My juicer struggled. Do you have any tips? Stem first? Stem last? I tried both and sandwiched with stronger veggies (beets) but it was slow-going. I will be drinking it for a while since it made so much – over 3 cups!
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