Sunday, April 10, 2011

Homemade Fruit Juice Recipes


Fruit juices are an excellent refreshment and anyone that enjoys them will likely also enjoy fruit gifts. You can send friends and family a fruit gift basket and they can be perfect as birthday giftsor even as Holiday gift baskets. Fruit juices and fruit are important parts of your diet and are great gift that promotes good health.
Lemon~Lime Ginger Ale
  • handful of grapes
  • 1 apple, cored and sliced
  • ½ inch fresh ginger (less if you find the taste too strong)
  • 1/2 lime
  • 1/4 lemon
  • sparkling mineral water
Remove the grapes from the stem. Juice the apple and ginger together, then juice the rest of the fruit. Pour the juice in a large glass and fill to the top with sparkling water and serve with ice.
Sparkling Tropical Fruit Juice
Recipe taken from I Hate Counting Calories!
  • 1 kiwi, peeled
  • 1 orange, peeled and sectioned
  • 1/2 mango, peeled and sliced
  • sparkling mineral water
Process the fruit in a juicer. Pour the juice in a large glass and fill to the top with sparkling water and serve.
Gingered Apple Cider Juice
  • 1 inch piece ginger
  • 3 apples or 1 cup apple cider
Process through a juicer and serve.
Peach Pear Apple Juice Recipe
  • 1 apple, cored and sliced
  • 2 peaches, remove seed
  • 1 pear, sliced
Process through a juicer and serve.
Fruit Punch (Juice)
  • 6 strawberries, fresh or thawed from frozen
  • 1 apple, cored and sliced
  • 1/2 orange, peeled and sectioned
Process the fruit in a juicer and serve.
Fruit Nectar Recipe
  • 1/2 cup raspberries, fresh or thawed from frozen
  • 1 orange, peeled and sectioned
  • 1 nectarine, pitted and sliced
Process the fruit in a juicer and serve.
Blueberry Cherry Juice Recipe
  • handful of cherries, pitted
  • 3/4 cup blueberries
  • 1 apple, cored and sliced
Process the fruit in a juicer and serve.
Fruit Juice Recipe Ideas …
  • 1 cup strawberries
  • 2 med. apples
  • 1 tsp. lemon juice
  • 1/2 red grapefruit
  • 1 med. orange
  • 2 handfuls cranberries
  • 1 pear
  • 1 peach
  • 1 apple
  • 1 orange
  • 1 mango
  • 1 apple