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Celery juice has been having a moment in recent years, but if you’ve ever tried drinking it plain, it’s usually not very palatable. After months of experimenting with it, I’ve learned what makes celery juice taste bad (two things can affect it) and a few ingredients that make it taste even better.
I’ll share both of these tips below, so you can enjoy a delicious celery juice on your first try.
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Celery Juice Ingredients
- Celery. Shop for celery bunches that look light green with thick pieces. Thin, darker green celery ribs will taste more bitter.
- Cucumber. Adding this to celery juice helps dilute the flavor and add extra hydration.
- Green Apple. This variety of apple is less sweet, but it helps mask the celery flavor.
- Lemon. Just half of a lemon will help add a bright, tart taste to celery juice.
- Ginger. Adds a slightly spicy kick. If you’re new to juicing ginger, start with a very small amount because it can taste more potent than you might expect.
How to Juice Celery
Step 1:
Start by cutting the produce into pieces that will fit into the juicer. Celery and cucumber should already fit, unless you’re using a masticating juicer with a very narrow chute. (Cucumber can be sliced into quarters lengthwise, like a pickle spear, if needed.)
The apple will need to have two sides cut off to fit into an average juicing chute, unless it’s very small.
Important Note: Remove the leaves from the celery pieces. The leaves will make your juice taste bitter if you leave them on!
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Step 2:
If your juicer has two speeds, start with the low speed. Run the celery and cucumber through the juicer, using the tamper to press them all the way down into the juicer.
Then switch the speed to high and add the apple, ginger, and lemon. I like to add them in that order, so the ginger is sandwiched between the apple and lemon and won’t fly around the chute.
As soon as everything has been juiced, it’s ready to be poured into a glass. You can enjoy it right away!
Celery Juice Side Effects
Whether you start with my recipe below or dive headfirst into drinking plain celery juice in the morning, here are some side effects that I’ve experienced myself.
- A dancing stomach. I’ve heard that celery juice can boost digestion by increasing the hydrochloric acid in your stomach. I can only guess that’s why my stomach felt like I had a baby kicking me in my intestines for the first week or two of drinking celery juice. (If you’ve ever been pregnant before, it literally felt like a baby kick!)
- A laxative effect. If you tend to be constipated, I would think this might help. Salt water is considered a laxative, and since celery is loaded with natural salts and very hydrating, I can only assume that’s why it had an almost-immediate laxative effect for me after drinking it.
Other than that, the other side effects I experienced were all positive —I felt less bloated and had fewer cravings for sweets. I hope you’ll try this juice recipe soon, and let me know how it makes you feel.
How to Make Celery Juice (that tastes good!)
Ingredients
- 1 bunch celery
- 1 small cucumber
- 1 green apple
- ½ lemon (no need to peel)
- 1 inch knob of ginger
Instructions
- If your juicer has a "high" and "low" setting, run the celery and cucumber through first on the low speed setting.
- Then switch the juicer to high speed and run the apple, lemon, and ginger through the juicer. I like to sandwich the piece of ginger between the apple and the lemon so that it won't fly around the juicing chute.
- Pour the juice into a glass and enjoy it right away. Or, save it in an airtight mason jar for up to 24 hours in the fridge.
Notes
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If you try this recipe, please leave a comment and star rating below to let me know how you like it.
Thanks for your information on celery juice. I wanted to try it but I can’t afford to buy or store another appliance. I used my high speed blender and then pushed the juice through my chinois sieve. it works great. maybe takes more time than a juicer but since i only plan on drinking celery juice it works for me. i also added some lemon and ginger. its very good. but most of the time i drink it plain. no major changes in my body but i dont do this every day.
For optimum health benifits, celery juoce is to be consumed on an empty stomach, straigt, as is, with no added water, fruit, spices, etc., as per the originator, Anthony William. If you can only toletate a few ounces at first, start there snd work up to 16oz. Some celery is mild and easy to drink, while some can be bitter, howvever drink it straight and give your body time to show results. It could take a few weeks to notice changes.
I’m excited to try this!!
I made this today but with a very small piece of apple. I’m going through some major “health”issues lately and my hair had fallen out..I’ve lost about half my hair in the last 6 months. I’m trying everything to figure out what is causing this. I mist say though. I thoroughly enjoyed this!
I had the same thing going with my hair comes to find out it’s my thyroid. They higherd my medicine I’m taking for my thyroid now my hair isn’t falling like it was before. You should look into that I almost made a wig that’s how bad my hair was falling off 🙁
I had this issue last year, but I went to a doctor and she had some blood work done. I was low in Vitamin D, Zinc, and ferratin (iron). I was prescribed supplements and could see a huge improvement after 3 months. Don’t self medicate, please. Try to eat well, treat your body kindly and see a doctor to find out what specific deficiencies you may have.
Wishing you a speedy recovery to good health.
Hair falling out? You may want to check with an endocrinologist.
Rather than juicing, can you actually have this as a smoothie, or is that just gross? I’ve obviously not tried it yet. Please let me know if you’ve tried it that way. Thank you!
I tried with 3 stalks of celery, a whole lemon peeled, and 1 inch knob of ginger blended in the vitamix. I DID not strain like Megan said to I couldn’t drink it this way the texture was not to my liking. So I added an apple, spinach, coconut water, and frozen strawberries.
Do you strain the juice out or drink it straight from the blender?I’ve been straining it but didn’t see that in your instructions so started to wonder if I don’t need to. Thanks for the yummy recipe!
I love the Medical Medium. I love celery juice, however, I have tried twice to drink it daily. Each time I do, after three days I experience heart palpitations. It’s scary and makes me stop. I already have low blood pressure and I don’t know if it’s lowering mine even more. Anyone else experiencing this? You cannot contact anyone from his website to ask. 🙁 PS This juice was delicious!
Hi Cindi.. I also have natural low blood pressure and I wanted to try celery juice but I’m very concerned it might give me side effects like you feel. Maybe I will try this recipe but with just a couple sticks of celery to see how it feels with my blood pressure. For me just eating one stick of celery alone con lower my blood pressure. This jiuce has ginger that balances blood pressure so could be good mix.
Marcela and cindi. Salt raises blood pressure, so if you have low blood pressure celery juice (which contains many healthy salts) would actually help. What you may have expereinced was a stronger blood flow or a higher heart rate, which would regulate once used to receiving the nutrients it seems to be in need of.
Ps. Not a doctor, just have an arrhythmia and use celery juice (and other sources) to regulate it a bit.
Hi Cindi. I have low blood pressure and I’ve realised that lemon makes me feel very weak. Instead using lime is the same effect as lemon and it doesn’t affect my levels of energy. I hope that helps.
Do you peel the ginger?
No, my juicer does that for me!
The whole half lemon? Rind and all?
Yes! But if you find that the rind makes it too bitter, you can peel it first. I don’t do that myself, though.
I have a lemon tree in my back yard. I think it’sMeyers lemons. All I know is that I can use the whole lemon and my juice turns out great. I had picked some other types of lemons at another place and tried to use the whole lemon and it was disgusting! I had to throw it out. I use those lemons but I definitely peel them. Hope this helps.
Hello,
I’m going to try your recipe tomorrow , just bought a juicer today. Just wondering if your recipe made your stomach do a dance too??
Thanks
Wondering what your own personal benefits have been? I have heard what it does but not anyone confirming as like Anthony’s claim
Thanks, jude
I enjoyed reading this article. I started with sellery juice today and also had an laxitive effect. Did that eventually stop for you when your body got used to it?