Introduction
This is a universal juice recipe, meaning that the base ingredients remain mostly the same. The various flavor ingredients can be mixed creatively to produce a different drink each time.
This SuperFood Complete Nutrition Breakfast Drink has grains, seeds, nuts, greens, dairy (optional), protein, fruits, mushrooms, grasses, vegetables, and more. In other words, it’s a complete whole food meal in a drink form.
If you examine the base nutritional ingredients, you’ll find that there are almost 100 total ingredients and nutrients in the resulting drink.
Juicer Type
This juice recipe works best with a blender-type juicer like the Magic Bullet NutriBullet or the Nutri Ninja Auto-iQ Blender for about $100 to $150. Read below for more details about different kinds of juicers.
Flavor Ingredients
Below are a variety of optional flavor ingredients to create its primary flavor. Choose organic whenever possible.
- apple (cored and cut into quarters)
- avocado
- banana
- blueberries
- baby carrots
- cherries
- mint (fresh leaves)
- peach (cored and cut into quarters)
- plum
- spinach
- tomatos (sweet cherry tomatoes or small heirloom tomatoes)
Ingredient Visuals
These are visuals showing a variety of flavor ingredient choices. Click any image for a larger gallery view.
Base Nutritional Ingredients
These ingredients are good to include in most blended drinks. They don’t alter the flavor too much and provide a base of ingredients with powerful nutritional benefits. Recently added to this list are spinach, Amazing Grass Green SuperFood, and the Dynamic Fruits & Greens.
- 1/4 cup Kretschmer Wheat Germ
- 1/2 cup baby spinach (Earthbound Farm Organic)
- 1 scoop Amazing Grass Green SuperFood Goji Açai Berry
- 1 scoop Dynamic Fruits & Greens Strawberry/Kiwi w/ Acai, Gogi, Mangosteen, Noni & Pomegranate Super Fruits by Nutri Dyn
- 1 scoop Source of Life Vitamin, Mineral, Protein Energy Shake with Whole Food Concentrates from Nature’s Plus (view PDF of nutritional profile)
- 1 tbsp Linwood ground flax, sunflower, pumpkin & sesame seeds & goji berries
- 1/2 scoop NOW Foods Whey Protein Isolate (25 grams of protein)
- 1 tbsp Brer Rabbit Blackstrap Molasses (USRDA 20% Calcium and 25% Magnesium)
- 1 tbsp Lecithin Granules by NOW Foods
- 1 tbsp Nutritional Yeast Flakes by NOW Foods
- 1 tbsp Whole Psyllium Husks by Now Foods
- 1 tbsp Raw Organic Cacao by Healthworks
- 1/2 teaspoon Magnesium Oxide by NOW Foods
- 2 cups whole organic milk (Hansen’s or Kalona Supernatural)
- 2 cups organic yogurt as an alternative to milk (Kalona Supernatural)
- 2 cups of almond milk, rice milk, soy milk, or other flavorful liquid base as alternative to milk
- 1 cage free organic vegetarian fed egg (such as Farmers’ Hen House or Egg Land’s Best)
- 1 cup ice cubes
About Juicers
Anyone shopping for juicers knows that there is conflicting advice about which category of juicer to get. We recommend purchasing two juicers: (1) a slow speed masticating juicer such as the Omega Nutrition Center for about $280, and (2) a single serving blender/juicer like the Magic Bullet NutriBullet or the Nutri Ninja Auto-iQ Blender for about $100 to $150.
Juicer System Benefits and Drawbacks
Each juicer system has benefits and drawbacks:
Masticating juicers have the following features and benefits:
- Work well at producing juice with very little pulp.
- Are best at extracting the nutrients from fruits and vegetables while separating out the fiber material.
- They require more fruits and vegetables to produce a glass of juice.
- These are known as cold pressed juicers.
- Many use an auger method to press food through a metal filter.
- Because of this, mushy foods like ripe banana or soft apples keep moving back into the auger entry.
Blender juicers have the following features and benefits:
- Create a pulpy drink by using a high speed blending process.
- Require fewer fruits and veggies per serving.
- The resulting drinks have helpful fiber, but aren’t as nutrient dense as the juice produced by masticating juicers.
- The are typically faster at producing a serving of juice than a masticating juicer.
- They are a little easier to clean up.
- They work well with soft ripe foods.
- They work well with ice, frozen wheat grass, frozen bananas, and other foods.