Want to try some healthy autumn juices? Adding a daily juice to your diet is a good way of helping toward your 5-a-day fruit and vegetable target. These recipes are all rich in diverse nutrients, and the main ingredients are vegetables and fruit that are in season for autumn. Sweet root vegetables like carrot and beetroot are an excellent choice, and so are sweet fruits that are in season, like pears and apples. There are a lot of green vegetables available in autumn, too, including spinach, kale and cucumber. You can add mint, basil, lemon, lime, or ginger to add extra flavour to your juices.
Juicing can be a healthy and invigorating way to start your day and brighten those darker mornings. For these juice recipes, you’ll need a juicer. Read on for four delicious autumn juice recipes:
1. Apple Spice
- 2-3 red apples (chopped and core removed)
- 2 cups of spinach
- 5 cm piece of root ginger
- 1 slice of chilli
This warming juice will certainly make your taste buds tingle this autumn, enjoy the fiery ginger and warm spice of chilli with fresh red apple. Simply add to your juicer and then serve chilled.
Want a spicy zing without making your own – try Plenish Kick: Spicy Lemonade. This refreshingly fiery juice drink is pressed from the finest lemons and chillies.
2. The Bear
- 4 beetroot
- 4 cups spinach
- 1 pear
- 1 cucumber (topped and tailed, skin on)
- 5 cm piece of fresh root ginger
This one is made of delicious juicy pears combined with sweet beetroot. Simply add it all to the juicer and enjoy. Beetroot juice has many benefits – it’s packed with minerals and antioxidants. Want all the goodness without making your own? Try Plenish Pump: Berry Beets Juice – a blend of sweet berries with earthy beetroot and zingy lime.
3. Autumn Glow
- 1 cucumber (topped and tailed, skin on)
- Half a head of romaine lettuce
- 2 cups of spinach
- 2 cups of kale
- 1 and a half green apples (stalks on, skin removed)
- 1 lime (skin on)
- 1 lemon (skin and pith removed)
This juice is packed full of green goodness -kale, spinach and romaine lettuce provide plenty of vital nutrients such as vitamins A, C, E and K plus magnesium, potassium, zinc and folate. This will help your skin glow from the inside out. Want to try green juice without making your own? There are three Plenish green juices to choose from.
4. Autumn Zing
- 2 oranges (skin and pith removed)
- 1 lime (skin removed)
- 2 carrots (topped and tailed, skin on)
- 1 cucumber (topped and tailed, skin on)
- 1 chilli
- Thumb-sized piece of fresh turmeric
This juice combines a powerhouse of flavour and ingredients, turmeric is known for anti-inflammatory properties plus the orange and carrots deliver a Vitamin C hit that will boost immunity. If you want to try an immunity-boosting juice without making your own, try Plenish Shield: Sweet Immunity Juice which is bursting with carrots, oranges, ginger and lemon.
If you haven’t got time to make your own juice – you can try getting Plenish juices delivered to your doorstep this autumn. They contain nothing but the finest organic produce, cold-pressed and bottled. Do you have any autumn juice recipes to share? Show us your creations @plenishdrinks on Instagram using #plenish.