Anti-Inflammatory Carrot Turmeric Juice
This anti-inflammatory carrot turmeric juice is sweet with a kick from the lemon and ginger. This detox juice is fantastic for joint pain and swelling.
When you’re on a low-sugar, low-carb, diabetic-friendly, alkaline, or any other restricted diet, you really appreciate the natural sweetness of vegetables. And when you don’t eat a lot of sugar or fruit, carrots taste like candy!
Carrot juice is a fantastic healthy drink that tastes like a treat without the really high sugar levels of fruit.
Carrot juice is high in natural sugar as far as vegetables are concerned. But, carrot juice is still a low-sugar option in comparison to pineapple juice and other high-sugar fruit juices.
The health benefits of carrot juice
Carrots contain loads of life-extending carotenes and minerals. This vegetable helps lower cholesterol, too, and alleviates skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema, all while enhancing the respiratory system’s resistance to infection. A great source of vitamin A, carrots also contain the magical antioxidant glutathione, which protects against free radical damage, and B vitamins, potassium, magnesium, and phosphorus.
Carrots fuel the production of white blood cells and enhance their performance, and are a great immune booster. These brilliant orange roots also deliver powerful anti-inflammatory agents, helping to relieve the symptoms of rheumatism and arthritis.
Carrot is a warming and strengthening vegetable perfect for cleansing. Cut off the greens (the jury is still out as to whether they are toxic or beneficial), but don’t peel the roots—much of carrots’ nutrients lie in the skin or just beneath. Just scrub, roughly chop (if using certain masticating juicers) and push through your juicer.
The earthy sweet flavor of the juice, much richer than that of carrot itself, combines well with apple, pineapple, beets, tomato, ginger, and cinnamon, so this one works well in both sweet and savory juices.
The health benefits of turmeric juice
An anti-inflammatory rockstar in the ginger family, turmeric is getting more widely available in mainstream grocery stores. If you can’t find the root fresh, purchase the ground dried turmeric familiar as the yellow component of curries.
The curcumin in turmeric has anti-inflammatory effects comparable to those of drugs like hydrocortisone, but lets us skip the toxicity. Curcumin can help relieve joint pain and swelling (it’s great for arthritis) and chest pain. Research in the use of curcumin in treating inflammatory bowel conditions like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis has shown it to be effective in very low doses, yet safe in much higher ones.
Always add a pinch of black pepper when using turmeric as the piperine in the pepper makes the curcumin in the turmeric more bio-available.
Turmeric boosts liver function, encourages detoxification, aids digestion, reduces gas and bloating, and boosts metabolism. It alleviates respiratory congestion, regulates blood pressure and cholesterol, and promotes heart health. Rich in vitamin C, fiber, phytonutrients, antioxidants, manganese, potassium, and iron, turmeric is a brilliant blood builder and immune booster. And in its spare time it helps promote deeper sleep.
The fresh stuff is wonderful in juices. If you can’t get it fresh, don’t go without—just use the powder.
A fantastic warming spice for winter, turmeric pairs well with citrus, pineapple, strawberries, peach, mango, bell pepper, tomato, carrot, and ginger. That flavor is fairly pronounced, though. Start with a 1/2 -inch section of unpeeled turmeric root, or 1/2 teaspoon of powder sprinkled on your prepared vegetables before you juice them.
Caution: Turmeric stains many surfaces, and can certainly stain juicers. So, as soon as you’ve juiced, clean your machine and reap your rewards of this mighty root.
The health benefits of ginger juice
Ginger is a brilliant health-promoting juice booster gives beautiful back-end kick to blends of all kinds. In one serving of juice, as little as a half-inch slice of washed, unpeeled root packs a powerful punch. We rely on ginger as a warming agent, to counteract the cooling effects of fruits and vegetables, and to promote healthy sweating, beneficial to the cleansing process and fantastic for battling colds and flu.
This sensational herb-and-spice is an overall anti-inflammatory agent that stimulates the lymphatic system, provides cardiovascular and respiratory support, aids digestion and tones the intestinal tract, and relieves gas, bloating, nausea and gastrointestinal distress. It helps make blood platelets less sticky, and reduces risk factors for atherosclerosis. Ginger’s powerful antioxidants and anti-tumor agents can also protect against free radicals.
There’s no need to peel ginger before juicing. Much of the nutrients are in the skin or just beneath. Scrub the root, lop off a piece, and juice away. In our experience, people either love ginger in a juice, or hate it. Starting slow’s a good way to go if you’re unsure which camp you’re in.
The health benefits of lemon juice
Lemon is the queen in the realm of cleansing. This highly alkalizing fruit is a potent detoxifier and natural antibiotic that improves liver function, relieves constipation, helps dissolve kidney and gall stones and kills certain intestinal parasites. The high levels of vitamin C helps boost immunity and alleviate symptoms of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, as well as fight the development and progression of atherosclerosis and diabetic heart disease.
Lemons also provide ample calcium and magnesium for strong bones and teeth, along with unique compounds that have powerful antioxidant and anti-cancer properties. The flavonoids in limes have even been shown to halt abnormal cell division.
While lemons are cooling, this superstar can be balanced with warming foods like cayenne and fennel. I use lemons in lots of juice blends to lift the earthy and pungent quality of leafy greens and vegetables, add zip and tang, and balance the acidifying impacts of high-sugar fruits.
Remove the rind before juicing, as in substantial quantities it’s slightly toxic.
The heath benefits of cinnamon
Cinnamon is a fantastic cleansing aid that increases circulation and activates the lymphatic system, encouraging detox. With powerful antimicrobial, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-fungal power, this sweet and mildly piquant aromatic encourages optimal nerve function, and can regulate blood pressure and cholesterol, promoting heart health.
Cinnamon also assists with calcium absorption and the metabolism of fat and carbohydrates, settles the stomach, curbs diarrhea and gas, and alleviates menstrual cramps and the symptoms of PMS. Its natural anti-inflammatory agents are known to ease the symptoms of asthma and arthritis, too, and cinnamon helps control blood-glucose levels, helpful to diabetics. Merely a whiff of cinnamon both soothes and energizes, even increasing brain activity and cognitive function.
A pinch is a fabulous stir-in to a finished juice. Better yet, sprinkle cinnamon on cut fruits and veggies before juicing, for fuller and smoother flavor. (The fine powder doesn’t mix into liquids easily, though, so the first method leaves your juice free of little clumps of spice—bursting with flavor, but generally too much so.)
Cinnamon pairs well with picks from all over the fruit-and-vegetable kingdom, but goes especially well with berries, apple, pear, orange, carrot, sweet potato, butternut squash, pumpkin and beet. Wonderful for cooler seasons, cinnamon is extremely warming to the body, a nice way in winter to counteract the cooling effects of fruit.
Try this anti-inflammatory carrot turmeric juice and let me know how it works for you.
Other Turmeric or Carrot Juice Recipes For You
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Can you make this in a Vitamix?
Absolutely. Just blend with 2 cups water, tweak flavours to taste, and then strain.
I have the same question: Can you make this in a Vitamix?
Yes. I juice in my Vitamix all the time. See above.
Yes , but it will be more pulpy ! You could also strain it to help reduce pulp after blending it up in the Vitamix
Thanks Sandra. Tweak the flavours too. The balance may be different.
Would you use less carrots if you were blending in a Blendtec? If so how much less would you use.
Use the same amount of carrots, add about 2 cups of water (you may need more) and then tweak flavours to taste, and strain.
Assuming this will work in nutribullet as well?
Yes, you can juice in the bullet. You will need to add enough water to make a juice-like consistency, blast, and then tweak quantities and flavors to taste, as this recipe is designed to be pushed through a juicer. Once you have the flavor you like, strain, or drink as a whole pulped juice.
Personally i prefer using a masticating juicer rather than a vitamix which is what i noticed some people on here were saying they could use. Either way a great looking juice. Will have to give it a try. I rarely add dry spices but certainly see how they would add flavour.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I do love my masticating juicer. I use an Omega VRT 350.