It’s that time of the year again in between seasons when everyone around you is sniffing, coughing, spluttering and blowing their nose. I’ve been fighting off a cold for a few weeks now but my body eventually decided to give in. It probably doesn’t help that I suffer from sinusitis meaning that I’m more susceptible to picking up peoples cold germs. If you’ve been following my blog then you’ll know that I’ve discovered the wonders of juicing. I was curious to look for juice recipes for colds and found this one from Reboot with Joe.
The recipe uses oranges, a lemon, carrots, ginger, an orange bell pepper and turmeric. These foods are rich in Vitamin C, antioxidants and cold fighting properties. So off I went to Waitrose with my runny nose to buy the ingredients required for this Vitamin C boosting juice!
Ingredients for Vitamin C boosting juice
- 2 Oranges
- 1 Lemon
- 1 Orange Bell Pepper
- 2 Carrots – the original recipe specifies 1 carrot but I decided to use 2 as I do like the taste of carrot juice
- 1cm piece of Ginger
- 2 teaspoons of Turmeric
Peel the oranges, lemon and carrots. Wash and slice the orange pepper in half, removing the seeds from the pepper. Chop off a 1cm piece of ginger and peel it. Switch on your juicer and add the vegetables and fruit one at a time. Let’s get juiced 😉
Once all the ingredients have all been juiced then stir in the 2 teaspoons of turmeric. I found the quantities used made enough juice to fill a little over a pint glass(568ml). Double the recipe if you’d like to store extra juice in an airtight bottle in the fridge for another glass later in the day.
Enjoy this refreshing Vitamin C boosting juice and hopefully the sniffles will be banished sooner than later!
When it comes to colds it tends to be a bit desperate measures to get rid of them! I hate carrots, but looove citrus, what an interesting combo
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Believe it or not but you actually can’t taste the carrot as orange and lemon are the dominant flavours 🙂 I believe what you eat/drink can help heal your body faster so making this juice was also an experiment for me to see if I would get over my bad cold quicker than what it usually takes 😉
Wow, that makes a colourful drink. Really hope it is helping you shake off that cold quickly.
Author
It is actually helping thanks 🙂
Looks yummy. I think I will be needing this drink.
Author
Oh no! Hope you don’t have a cold too!
This sounds like a great, natural option. I wonder if it helps in the prevention as well. Hope you get better soon.
Author
Yes, I’m sure it would help with prevention too as all the ingredients are immune boosting! 🙂