Juices are a great way to get fresh organic foods in your diet.
With the cold weather approaching, cold and flu season is just around the corner.
This juice is packed with immune boosting vitamins and antioxidants that will help your body fight colds and flu.
Let’s take a look at the organic foods in this recipe.
Vitamin C is very well known as an immune boosting antioxidant, and limes provide plenty of it. A strong immune system can help fight cold and flu.o
They provide an impressive amount of vitamin C.
Oranges are packed with vitamin C and folic acid, which help speed recovery from illness. Some researchers suggest that vitamin C may even decrease flu and cold times. They are a perfect immune boosting food.
Ginger promotes sweating, which is a great form of natural detoxification. It doesn’t just help with detoxification. Ginger is a natural anti-viral, so it will help fight off illnesses and heat up the human body to help induce fever. Fever is the body’s natural defense against cold and flu.
Process the following ingredients in a juicer:
2 apples
2 oranges
1/2 a lime
1/2 lemon
add: 1″ grated ginger (optional)
TIP: Take 2 times a day when feeling under the weather
Make sure ingredients are organic
Enjoy!
AS ALWAYS: Check with your health practitioner before you change your diet. Organic foods are not meant to replace any treatment or drugs you are taking.
For a cold and flu buster elderberry tea.
REFERENCES:
1. “Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Limes, Raw.” Self Nutrition Data. Self Nutrition Data, n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2014.
2. “Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Apples, Raw, with Skin [Includes USDA Commodity Food A343].” Self Nutrition Data. Self Nutrition Data, n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2014.
3. “Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Strawberries, Raw.” Self Nutrition Data. Self Nutrition Data, n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2014.
