Right off the bat, with U.S. clients I am normally recommending 3 different of the best green juice products. Health is #1 and in the modern diet culture that lacks so heavily the full spread of nutrition we evolved with and need to perform optimally; a good array of green juice is the next best thing.

Of course, my principal recommendation is always to get to permaculture and get the stuff fresh.

The best green juice is fresh green juice and here in Panama, we make our green juices with 12 to 23 species each time,

When it comes to green juice I am looking for ingredients that are not common monoculture crops we can find in the grocery store. I am looking for top-quality sourcing of ingredients, and a high diversity of them.

There are thousands of products out there claiming to be the real stuff. Here in this piece, the pro’s who work with plants and high-end nutrition every day, break down the pros and cons of several green juice products available currently.

There are steep benefits that can be experienced from green juice consumption.

The side effects and things to watch out for are mostly covered at harvest and certain complex reactions are known or unknown to the Nutritional Diversity diet while consuming a high variety of foods are usually quite manageable by simply going slow with new nutritional line-ups.

The power and energy that comes from eating the freshly harvested leaves in this highly diverse fashion are remarkable. {x}

Throughout time, herbalists and other health practitioners have grated and ground herbs and squeezed soft fruits into elixirs of vitality.

Dr. Max Gerson (October 18, 1881 – March 8, 1959) was the first to spearhead the concept that a diverse, all-natural vegetable diet could be used to fight cancer and other chronic diseases in the early part of the 1900s. {x}

It was later in the 1930s, when author and raw food proponent Dr. Norman Walker invented the first juicing machine, that juicing became widely available.

But the mention of smashing pomegranates and figs goes back to the Dead Sea Scrolls (150BC), where they were able to extract subtle form and “extreme strength.”

Today the Cancer Association stands that Gerson therapy or an all-natural vegetable diet is not approved for use in treating cancer and other ailments and that the 13 glasses of fruit and vegetable use have no recorded benefit. {x}

Green juices can be an excellent all-natural solution for the city dweller, who has much more limited access to species than the farmer does.

We always say that a small balcony or window garden with culantro and your own garlic for example, or knowing one small farmer is enough to make sure you have something fresh to mix in. This helps by allowing the powders to bind to larger pieces of vegetation, promote regular movement, and relieve “kidney coating.”

These green juices are essential to the modern mover and shaker today, as they run from a to b. Salads and cooked greens are also important, but blended greens help you get the right amount or more faster.

The stuff we do here on the farm is intense! We do several blender pitchers throughout the days trying to add up to around 60 different species, all-natural and growing near us.

About 70% of this intake is freshly harvested and paid for with my shovel.

It helps by using a good couple of flavor agents, such as mango or passion fruit.

We do get together and make some cooked greens stuff in the evenings.

Let’s take a good look at the best green juice and green plant-based supplements market.

GREEN JUICE RANKING

1. Organifi

This is one of the market’s leading products for green juice today. Organic produce.

We found Organifi had too many grocery store common products, such as cinnamon, pumpkin seeds, peas, quinoa, red beet, etc. There was turmeric, and spirulina, also very popular species, moringa, and wheatgrass which are good.

Spirulina is a seaweed, and it is rarely farmed usually just taken, so we look to rank more conscious supplements that look more closely at sourcing and footprints. For the cost, ND Essential Greens was a more valuable, more diverse product. [a]

2. Athletic Greens

Athletic Greens is next on the list with great ingredients and a bit higher in diversity. Gems of longevity such as Gotu Kola, also Rosehip are some of the important things we should have each day.

Ingredients like spirulina, broccoli, carrot, beet, pea protein, and spinach cause me to wonder – grocery store monoculture ingredients are in this expensive supplement.

This is a long-time best-selling top-of-the-food chain product for its type and time.

3. Nutritionally Diverse Essential Greens

ND Essential Greens is a brilliant mix of rare, essences and combined effects planned eloquently by the plant Pro’s. Ingredients found nowhere else, such as damiana herb, banaba leaf, mugwort, mangosteen, and packed into 5 grams of glutamine, and essential body needs are completely forgotten in the modern diet.

Maca root and papaya to give energy and digestive enzymes for other elements of the day’s diet. Cascara Sagrada bark to promote regularity. Mango and acai berry antioxidants.

Moringa and parsley as familiar lower cost, high production crop supplement normals and calcium providers a consideration of costs and savings to pass on a better price to the consumer.

You can take this supplement with the other supplements in this list if taken four hours apart from one another. Outside of moringa, gotu kola and coconut (which users can have more of) there are no common ingredients with competitors.

This drink was created because the green juice market lacks what we need for our U.S. clients.

ND Essential Greens has 22 plant essences and 5 grams of glutamine per serving, while priced as much as a glutamine-only supplement.

5. Peak Performance

Here is another much better-priced, smarter formulation, but with the same old ingredients.  Amazon’s Choice and price rank this one among the best green juices in value.

To name a few of the ingredients, barley grass, organic spirulina, organic spinach, organic wheatgrass, organic kale, turmeric, and milk thistle.

If you ask me this is as good as any of the products above it in this ranking. So switch off when done with one try the next! If you want to go by my earlier advice try stacking two!

6. Organic Muscle

This Amazon Choice bestseller is well-reviewed a little lower in price, and about the same product with some probiotic profiles added on. It could be a good sourcing rotation with another. Same stuff spirulina, turmeric, beetroot, wheatgrass, it does have ashwagandha, a total of 12 species.

The company claims to plant a tree for every unit sold, I wish more companies had this sort of gearing. This is a great green juice product!

7. Nutri Champs

Nutri Champs has produced one at a great price, with over 800 reviews, and they give part of each sale to food security efforts, through their charity the Vitamin Angels.

Blue agave, rose hips, acai berry, goji berry, stand out among the list of grocery store available items. The mix, however, is diverse and comes with 100 mg of probiotic additives per serving.

The price for this product is excellent, I don’t know how they do it.

8. Earth Grown Nutrients

Another great price from another great company ONNIT Supplements has a big reputation for being the good stuff, and here Earth Grown Greens is yet another with many same base ingredients as the rest, a few changes and smart ones too.

Ingredients that stand out for this one camu camu, Peruvian purple corn, Jerusalem artichoke. Lacuna for high in zinc and calcium, and sea kelp is high in iodine, making this a great option in the rotation.

9.  Wild Greens

I am a big fan of Wild Greens, this is a great mix and great product. It is a little pricey but as they say, “you get what you pay for.” It has unique ingredients such as bitter melon.

We are expecting this guy to rise to the top of the ranking very soon!

10. Wild Force Greens

Forty-three unique ingredients,!!!

This product is a bit pricey but I recommend going through a few of these a year. Created by Markus Rothkranz a veteran in vitality, anti-aging via natural nutritional regimen.

You can’t go wrong here! The only one I would leave out is the black chia seed, as nutritional diversification we are very picky about seed use.

I usually recommend this one right away to overweight clients and tell them to double down on it.

GREEN JUICE BENEFITS

The benefits of using a good green juice can be immense, especially in cases where Nutritional Diversity diet minimums are met, and also in cases where the diversity is severely insufficient.

Nitrification of the system, and fibrous elements that help stabilize and enhance blood sugar levels, naturopathic activities, and physical performance, among other helpful adjustments.

Interestingly even with the gigantic market value of nutritional supplements each year, outside of red or white wine [x], and beetroot [y], nutritional supplement drinks go underdone in the official depths of the funny research papers.

One study, however, did show that using health supplements reduced blood pressure. [3] Another study showed alleviated hypertension symptoms from fruit and vegetable powder mixes [4].

Best Green juice drinks while newer to the markets than multivitamins are an attempt to utilize more of the whole food plant essence than the multi-extract pill did.

The lack of fiber in the modern diet almost alone justifies a need for the many powders in pouches. This research is well known yet modern diet still lacks drastically in healthy dietary fiber. [5,6]

One of the best powdered nutritional supplement tests to date was a military study conducted on their MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) powdered meal supplements and this extensive examination found no harm to the gut microbiome. The only changes made were in the fecal matter; increased microbial spectrum and possibly slower moving. [7,8]

In this case, the fiber content in the MRE can actually be much more robust than the modern diets fiber content. Again adding in some plant matter only helps more there.

Alzheimer’s probability is cut 74% by regular vegetable juice consumption. [9]

One study was conducted on fermented fruits, vegetables, and juices extensively to find a new realm of healing theoretically in the Indigenous Lactaid Acid (LAD). [10] I don’t know if this is an actual benefit yet but it could be one!

GREEN JUICE SIDE EFFECTS

Stomach discomfort, and runny bowel activity, is always a possibility with powder state supplements going down in one shot. Depending on the lifestyle of the user, it could help to break up the serving across the day, so that this effect is not experienced. Making green juices with more water and consuming them first thing in the morning is another way to stay healthy, making sure to use the bathroom service, before starting the workday.

Plantains and ginger have been known to help with the irritations from certain powders.

GREEN JUICE EXPERIENCE

I have now been making green juices, and juice mixes for years comprised of usually 35 to 90 species per mix. These guys pack a punch and it took years to learn the species, and gain a relationship with nature to whereas I can tell how the plants will work together and test better than they do.

I use strong species, almost exclusively species not found in the grocery store. I grow them myself or get them from other people I know have good growing methods and many grow wild.

There is no going back for me now that I have discovered the benefits of the high diversity diet.

While it is great to come down to the tropics and get a good diet, it isn’t possible for everyone all the time. So we put together some of the essential must-haves and some of the more potent elements from our concoctions and experience that we could source well and we came up with a good formulation that covers most of today’s diet inadequacies.

When you rely on these highly diverse green juices throughout the day I find myself doing four to five big pitchers. Even down here IN THE WONDERFUL TROPICS, I have certain powdered mix-ins, performance supplements, and other prefabricated (less fresh harvested) items that I add in from time to time.

Lots of refrigeration is helpful to keep things fresh and organized for a juice enthusiast.

I certainly find the richness in taste and the energy and the feel of a highly diverse juice incomparable to other products out there currently.

I have applied the idea to my composting, and blended kitchen materials make nice compost quicker. It also makes great use of the old used blender.

Fruit and vegetable blending is different from juicing. This is an important distinction. Juicing usually separates hard material and leaves only liquid material behind. NDdieters should not mean to separate anything but use all of the whole food.

Blended users can almost double what would be fresh chewed intake both in time and in volume.

GREEN JUICE DISCUSSION

The next level for a greens juice could be a highly diverse fermented drink such as a time-only ferment, or an activated even a cultured kombucha type one.

GREEN JUICE FAQ

Q. What is the best blender for green juice?

A. Many like the Vitamix, I prefer a good old-fashioned cheap end blender that being said I could have bought a few Vitamixes by now with those but I am good with little pieces and no so much liquid food. That all being said and looking back on it I will likely get me the best high-end blender, after I obtain the best water purifier.

I should mention there is a school of thought out there, that believes motor blade combos like the Vitamix cause pure and friction heat the pieces and damage the information in them, or “cook them down” so to speak. In my mind a certain amount of that is fine but maybe keep your old cheapy around in case you want the “fresh and chunky” style again soon.

Q. What other ingredients can be digestive aid to juicing?

A. Great question. Oils. Fish oils, krill oil, olive oil, coconut oil. I recommend green juicers have an oil collection. Cinnamon. Papaya. These all ads to help cognitive function, joint function, and cardiovascular vitality well as helping food uptake.

Q. If you can only buy your greens from the grocery store which do you buy?

A. Still nothing. Zero. Zip. It’s all grown with or near glyphosate or something near as bad, or something worse.  Given that avocados, mangos, anything exotic (mostly fruits), oranges, imported coconut (only the raw grated stuff, be careful it will go bad in one hour unrefrigerated).

Q. Is all fresh green juicing acceptable as a full-time practice?

A. Why yes. Yes, it is! The key would be to have a high enough diversity of plants and focus on mineral and protein-heavy plants.

Q. What are the benefits of green juice?

A. Green juice does best to maintain a healthy skin texture. Secondly, green juice supplies a baseline of energy for our body. Thirdly, regular consumption of green juice could aid in weight reduction. Lastly, green juice also serves as a good source of amino acids that our body needs.

Q. What are the arguments for the daily consumption of green juice?

A. Green juice serves to maintain a good pH balance of the body. Being slightly alkaline, consuming plenty of green vegetables helps maintain alkalinity. Green juice also provides a quick lift in energy. Having a good composition of antioxidants, green juice may help a lot in slowing down the aging process. Green juices contain digestive enzymes and prebiotics hence they can affect good gut health. Green juice is known to detoxify your liver. Green juice will help our body to upkeep a strong immune defense.

Q. How to make green juice?

A. First wash and prepare your vegetables overnight. Squeeze juice out of them. Finally, keep it in the fridge.

Q. How long are juiced vegetables good for?

A. It is advisable to consume them right away but can be kept in the refrigerator for up to two days

Q. What are we going to do with the residue once the juice is taken?

A. 1. Mix pulp into a smoothie to add fiber.
2. Add to a soup to thicken and boost fiber and nutrient content.
3. Use fruit pulp to make frozen fruit pulp ice.
4. Make a vegetable broth by boiling and straining pulp with water, herbs, and spices.
5. Make a fruit tea by boiling fruit pulp with water, putting in spices such as cinnamon or ginger, cooling, and then straining.
6. Use the vegetable pulp to add the nutrient base to pasta sauce, or layer into a lasagne.
7. Create homemade veggie burgers or fritters.
8. Mix pulp into baked goods like muffins, cakes, bread, and granola bars.
9. Use the pulp to add flavor, and texture to pancakes.
10. Make dehydrated pulp crackers.
11. Use pulp for the pizza crust.
12. Create pulp marmalade.
13. Mix pulp into your dog’s food.
14. Feed it to your chickens.
15. Make compost.

Q. How many calories are there in green juice?

A. A normal glass of green juice roughly measures about 80 calories.

Q. What exactly is classified as green juice?

A. Green juice is a beverage made from the juices of green vegetables.

Q. What else can be in green juice?

A. Most recipes would call for a few citrus fruits as well to balance out the bitterness somewhat.

Q. Are there negatives to consuming green juice?

A. Since juicing removes much of the fiber contents, green juice decreases the roughage the body needs to help indigestion. For this reason, green juice should never be treated as a substitute to veggie or fruit intake. Green juice alone may contribute to low blood sugar control. Excessive consumption may add more oxalate in your system which may not be good for kidney functioning.

Q. What is the main role that green juice plays in our diet?

A. Green juice doesn’t contribute further benefits beyond those associated with fresh produce. Green juice should be looked at as a dietary supplement.

Q. Is there a difference between pasteurized and cold-pressed juices?

A. When juice is pasteurized, it’s being treated at a high temperature, which aims to protect it against bacteria but this heating process also destroys live enzymes, minerals, and other nutrients. Cold pressing, on the contrary, extracts juice by first crushing the fruits and vegetables, and then pressing them to squeeze out the juice, without using heat. This will serve to maximize the nutrient content of the drink.

Q. What should we focus on the label of cold-pressed green juice?

A. It is important that we learn from the labels with an indication that juice has been made mostly with leafy greens, with lower sugar content than fruit-based ones.

Q. What are the nutrient contents of most green juice?

A. Green juice can provide up to 36 percent of your daily potassium needs and 20 percent of your vitamin A. Green juice made from vegetables typically is low in sugar content and is fat-free.

Q. How are the different varieties of green juice related to your body’s needs?

A. Beets and celery have high-sodium levels that can raise the sodium concentration in your juice. Keep in mind that the recommended intake of sodium daily is 2300 mg hence you should be careful that your juice, with other foods in your diet, doesn’t exceed the level suggested. Moreover, you should select the kind of green juice with the least fruits mixed in to keep a lower sugar content.

Q. What other side effects can be associated with the consumption of green juice?

A. Green juices are composed of various fruits, vegetables, and minerals that may cause an allergic reaction in our body. Pay particular attention to nausea, vomiting, or dizziness.

Q. Should you consume green drinks in the morning or evening?

A. There is no scientific or anecdotal basis for any benefit wrought from time of consumption but many people prefer the morning since green juice makes them feel alive and active for the rest of the day.

GREEN JUICE RECAP

Always mix powders with some fresh materials so they can bind together.

Try to avoid seeds and beans, at least to start with.

Definitely avoid using monocropped, grocery store products.

Lots of wonder juice will help you remember things, and avoid conditions like Alzheimer’s.

Check out the NDdiet introduction and know more about diverse greens.

With NDdiet green juices, we mean green blends as if whole plants are involved (which they should always be) where nothing is separated.

Chunks are good! That is what you want the most of with fresh blends.

When doing a lot of this type of consumption it’s important to drink more water! As clean and as multi-sourced as possible.

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