Detox Green Juice made of cucumbers, celery, ginger, romaine lettuce, and lemon to promote body cleanse and assist in weight loss! Learn how to make this fresh juice in a blender and drink this magical green drink every morning!
Be sure to try this Green Glow Juice and these other Juicing Recipes. If you are looking for a good detox drink, look no further because this detox green juice has all the healing, metabolism boosting agents the body thrives from!
Quick Look
- 🕒 Prep Time: 10 minutes
- 🍽️ Serving: 1
- ⚡ Calories: 136kcal
- 🥣 Ingredients: 6 (romaine, coconut water, cucumber, celery, lemon, fresh ginger)
- 🧃 Equipment: a blender and a nut milk bag, or a juicer
- 🌶️ Flavor Profile: Crisp and green from the cucumber and romaine, bright with lemon and a warm bite of ginger
- ✋ Difficulty: Blend, strain through a nut bag, squeeze. No fancy juicer required.
Quick Answer
Add 2 cups packed romaine lettuce, 1 cup coconut water, 1 cucumber, 2 celery stalks, 1 lemon with the skin and rind sliced off and 1 inch of peeled fresh ginger to a blender and blend on high until smooth. Place a mesh bag or nut bag over a large bowl, pour the juice in and squeeze the bag tightly until all of the liquid is out, saving the pulp for smoothies or baked goods. Pour into a glass and serve chilled or over ice. It makes one 136 calorie serving in about 10 minutes, and you do not need a juicer.
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Green juice is truly a gift from the goddesses due to the high quantity of vitamins, minerals and hydrating properties it contains! Sipping detox green juice is a fast and refreshing way to incorporate daily veggies into your routine!
Enjoying an organic juice cleanse (even from one of my favorite sources, Raw Juicery) is a great way to get a quick and hydrating dose of vegetables. This green drink is one of the best juice cleanse for weight loss (along with celery juice and cabbage juice) to add to your daily existing diet.
Why This Juice Works
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- It is mostly water, on purpose. Vegetables, especially these, contain loads of water which helps to flush out toxins.
- Lemon starts the liver. Lemons aid to jump-start the liver to produce bile which also aids in digestion and flushing out unwanted free radicals.
- Celery costs more to digest than it gives. Celery contains less calories than it takes the body to metabolize it, so the body burns more calories breaking down a celery stalk than it consumed.
- Ginger brings the gingerol. It contains gingerol, a powerful substance that contributes to healing and acts as natural medicine, reducing soreness and inflammation.
- Coconut water instead of added sugar. It is high in potassium with no added sugars and adds a slight natural sweetness.
- A nut bag replaces the juicer. Blending then straining gets you the same clear juice without buying a machine.
Why You'll Love This Juice
- Ten minutes from cutting board to glass.
- No juicer needed, a blender and a nut bag do it.
- 136 calories and six whole ingredients.
- Cheaper than the juice bar, and you skip the trip.
- The first entry in my detox drinks collection, and it pairs with warm lemon water on the same routine.
Key Ingredients
- Romaine Lettuce - this green leaf has a high content of minerals, such as calcium, phosphorous, magnesium, folate and potassium. It is also packed with vitamins including vitamin C, K, and A. Potassium helps the heart to beat regularly, calcium enriches the bones, aids to the nervous system, and brain which is the body's control panel. Vitamin C helps to break down citrate and flush out kidney stones when found in urine. Vitamin K is important also for the blood and folate is beneficial to pregnant women as it supports a healthy pregnancy. Vitamin A helps the eyes.
- Cucumber - Cucumbers are loaded with fiber and help hydrate the body. When the body is well hydrated, it speeds up the metabolism and helps improve physical performance. Have extra cucumbers? Try these cucumber bites and parsley juice recipe too!
- Celery - celery contains less calories than it takes the body to metabolize it. In turn celery helps you lose weight and stay fuller longer thanks to its high fiber content.
- Lemon - The powerful citrus fruit is used whole when juiced. When in a blender, I suggest removing the skin. Lemons help flush toxins by jump-starting the digestive system when served in warm lemon water.
- Fresh Ginger - is an anti-inflammatory food widely known for helping settle an upset stomach. It reduces soreness, reduces inflammation and helps fight colds and the flu. It is great to add to anti-inflammatory smoothies too!
- Coconut Water - coconut water is high in potassium with no added sugars and adds a slight natural sweetness to juices and smoothie recipes.
See recipe card for quantities.
Substitutions and Variations
There is a simple substitution to green juice that can be made. Try this different variation and let me know if you have any questions.
- Lettuce - instead of romaine lettuce, you can use spinach or kale.
- Apple - There are no apples in this recipe, but you can add 1 apple for a little more sweetness. Green apple, gala, honeycrisp, or fuji are all good kinds of apples to juice. For a blender add apple slices and in the juicer, you can add the apple whole. The juicer will discard extra parts such as the core, or use the extra parts to throw into apple muffins.
- Aloe Vera - adding aloe to smoothies and juice has incredible health benefits. See how to cut an aloe plant, and add about 1 inch of the gel to the blender or juicer before blending.
How to Make Detox Green Juice
How to make detox green juice at home? It is so simple and you don't need a fancy juicer if you don't have one. Just a blender and nut bag for straining. Here are both methods for making fresh green juice.
Blender Method
1Add all the ingredients into a blender and blend on high until smooth.
2Using a mesh bag or nut bag like this one (which I love and use religiously!), place the bag over a large bowl. Pour the juice into the bag.
3Squeeze the bag tightly numerous times until all of the juice is drained into the bowl. Save the fiber pieces remaining in the nut bag and add them to smoothies or baked goods. Pour the juice into a glass to serve. Best served chilled.
Juicer Method
4Add all the ingredients to a juicer (Hurom Juicer is a wonderful one that is easy to clean). Juice according to manufacturer's instructions. Enjoy over ice or chilled in the refrigerator first for an hour!
As always, be sure to check out the full recipe details in the recipe card below.
Expert Tips
- Drink it within 1 to 2 days. When making fresh juice the key is to drink it within 1-2 days. The longer detox green juice sets the less nutritional value it has. Store it in the refrigerator in a sealed airtight jar or container.
- Morning, before anything else. I suggest drinking this detox green juice every morning for breakfast to clean and flush out the system before adding more foods into your body.
- Peel the lemon for the blender. The fruit is used whole when juiced, but in a blender the skin turns it bitter.
- The right machine helps. I highly recommend a Vitamix as it gets every last speck of ingredients blended so you can not even see it. Juicers can be found on Amazon for reasonable prices, but I highly recommend this one as the best juicer. It requires little cleaning and separates the pulp from liquid nicely!
- Keep the pulp. The fiber left in the nut bag goes straight into smoothies or baked goods, so nothing is wasted.
- Chill it first. An hour in the refrigerator makes it taste like the juice bar version.
Green Juice Health Benefits
This detox green juice is an amazing wellness drink! It is lower in calories and aids in improving the function of the body, starting with the digestive system.
- Improves digestion
- Helps eliminate toxins from the body
- Increases hydration
- Speeds up the metabolism for weight loss and to achieve a flat belly
- Promotes glowing skin
- Increases energy levels
- Boosts the immune system
- Fights sickness and disease
- Reduces inflammation
How does this drink detox? Every ingredient in this green juice aids to detox the body. Especially thanks to lemons, coconut water, cucumber and celery. Vegetables, especially these contain loads of water which helps to flush out toxins. Lemons aid to jump-start the liver to produce bile which also aids in digestion and flushing out unwanted free radicals.
Detox drinks are a favorite wellness beverage of mine with fresh green juice ranking in the top 10. I first fell upon this healing detox drink when I moved to our new city last year. The grocery store nearby had a quaint little coffee, smoothie and juice cafe which included this green detox juice, wellness shot drinks, green machine drink and more! So, I started making them all at home. Making fresh juices at home like a glowing skin green juice will help you save time and save you loads of money by making them homemade.
Detox Green Juice FAQs
Detox green juice helps to cleanse the body of toxins and free radicals. It is mostly water, which helps to flush out the system and contains many vitamins and nutrients that improve overall health.
Yes green juice detoxes your body. Green juice is mostly a green vegetable juice. It has hydrating lettuce, cucumber, celery, and ginger to help fight inflammation and heal cells.
Any of these are good for detox: chlorella detox smoothie, apple cider vinegar drink, aloe vera juice, cranberry juice detox water, lemon cucumber mint detox water, green machine juice, celery juice, detox beet juice, detox waters, carrot juice, watermelon juice and pineapple orange juice.
Yes, and that is the method here. Blend everything on high, then pour it through a mesh bag or nut bag over a bowl and squeeze until all the liquid is out.
Drink it within 1 to 2 days. The longer it sits the less nutritional value it has. Keep it in the refrigerator in a sealed airtight jar.
Every morning for breakfast, to clean and flush out the system before adding more foods into your body. It also works throughout the day as a healthy snack to reset and refuel.
More Detox and Wellness Drinks
More detox and wellness drink recipes you may enjoy: Wellness Shot for Immunity Health, Infused Detox Water Recipes, Cleansing Matcha Smoothie Bowl, Cinnamon Ginger Carrot Juice and Parsley Juice. I hope you enjoy this detox green juice recipe! Follow along with me on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for a feature and more recipe inspiration! And don't forget to leave a comment below!
Detox Green Juice Recipe
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Ingredients
- 2 cups romaine lettuce packed
- 1 cup coconut water
- 1 cucumber or half an extra long english cucumber
- 2 celery stalks
- 1 lemon skin and rind sliced off
- 1 inch fresh ginger peeled
Instructions
Blender
- Add all the ingredients to a blender. Blend until smooth on high.
- Using a large bowl, place a mesh bag or nut bag over top. Pour in the green detox juice. Using your hands, squeeze the juice out making sure to remove all of the liquid (save and reserve the scraps in the bag to add to baked goods or smoothies).
- Transfer the juice to a glass and serve over ice or chilled.
Juicer
- Add all the ingredients to a juicer and use according to manufactures directions. Enjoy over ice or chilled.
Betty says
Hi ? While we doing the juice in the morning what should we eat during the day for lunch and dinner while we juicing
Danielle Fahrenkrug says
If you are doing a full juice cleanse, then drink homemade juices throughout the day even for lunch and dinner. Here is where you can find more detox juices. If you are just doing a morning cleanse, it is best to still eat clean throughout the day, preferably salads with homemade dressing.
Melissa says
Hello! Can you make these in bulk in advance and store them in the fridge for the week?
Danielle Fahrenkrug says
Melissa, you can make these in bulk for the week, I like to do that as well for a couple of days. Give them a good shake before drinking as some of the contents may settle on the bottom of the cup. Also, just note that juices start to loose their potency in nutrients the longer it sets.
Lori Carroll says
Hi! Could you drink this for a cleanse for 3 days? Also, does it have to have ginger? I loathe ginger! Thanks!
Danielle Fahrenkrug says
Hi Lori! Yes, you can drink it for a 3 day cleanse. Ginger is exceptional for digestion and reducing inflammation so if you want to skip that in the drink you can take them ginger pills as welll:-).