This juice made from beets, carrots, and cucumbers is my all time favorite to make. I wanted to make some juice recipes for my blog, since one of my resolutions is to use my juicer more. It’s a great tool to easily consume and absorb a ton of nutrients at once, but there are down sides too. Like too much sugar, no protein, and it can be a hassle to set up, dissemble and clean, especially compared to how easy the Vitamix is to use. I’ve also had issues with certain foods getting stuck (celery I bitching about you).

This recipe is one of my favorites because the hard carrots and beets juice up easily. I use a cucumber as well, as a base to get in more liquid. Carrots, beets, and cucumbers have natural sugars that I find sweet enough, so I don’t need fruit. Plus, the end result is still sweet enough that it tastes delicious.  This recipe just fills up one juicing pitcher at four cups, making this my all time favorite juice.

The benefits of the veggies in this juice are surprisingly similar. Beets are amazing for a lot of things including blood pressure, stamina, detoxification, inflammation, and they also help prevent cancer. Carrots have similar benefits for the heart, detoxification, inflammation and cancer prevention. Cucumbers are also great for detoxification, brain health, inflammation, and heart health. I’m actually pretty obsessed with cucumbers and use them as a base for liver pates, chicken and tuna salads, and as a snack with a little sea salt when I’m craving crunchy and salty food, which is all the time. Basically they’re my healthy substitution for chips and crackers. On that tangent, I hope everyone had a great holiday and New Years, and I hope you are as excited as I am to get back to the healthier stuff!

Beet and Carrot Juice