Green juices are great! TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa conducts medically supervised juice fasts and water-only fasts. But when we are not fasting, is it okay to consume some green juice made predominantly of leafy greens? Yes. Such a juice is a powerhouse of various micronutrients found in leafy greens. But we must remember that a juice is not substitute for actualy leafy greens (and other veggies) consumed in their whole form. A green juice is in addition to leafy greens and other veggies that we normally consume daily on a Whole Food Plant-Based diet.

Green juice recipe? An abundance of low oxalate leafy greens (cruciferous greens like kale & collard greens are great), a small amount of fruit for flavor (fruit juices are discouraged but if we don’t add any fruit at all, green juice may be difficult to consume for beginners), lemon & misc colorful, rainbow-colored veggies — whatever we feel like: tomatoes, cucumber, beet, carrot, cilantro, mint, and so on.

At offset 47:41 of this interview, Dr Fuhrman offers this green juice recipe for those tackling cancer: one-third (1/3) juice is cruciferous (preferably bok choy), another one-third (1/3) juice is carrot and beet, the remaining one-third (1/3) juice is lettuce, celery and cucumber (mostly lettuce). Consume twice daily, about 6 oz each time.

Daily juice is part of Nature Cure guidelines in India as well. Both winter melon (ash gourd) juice and coconut water are revered in Nature Cure circles. But please don’t consume any coconut milk! See Coconut Milk.

Why low oxalate leafy greens? Please see Dr Greger's Optimum Nutrition Guidelines and Kidney Stones.

Why green juice? Green juice is not a whole food; it's the juice extract of veggies. What are we trying to do by drinking all these juices? Basically, these juices are a potent source of all those superhealthy phytonutrients found in plant foods! By stripping away fiber, we can ingest many more phytonutrients found in leafy greens & colorful veggies, than if we were to eat them in their whole form (with the fiber). When we juice, we do lose some phytonutrients that were attached to fiber. Still, the resulting juice continues to be a powerhouse of phytonutrients which are rapidly absorbed by our body.

How much green juice daily? Something like 8oz to 12 oz daily. At offset 47:41 of this interview, Dr Fuhrman suggests drinking the green juice recipe he outlines twice a day, 6 oz each day.

How about consuming green juice in large quantities, for example, 32 oz? That's a lot of juice! It’s best to ask a WFPB doctor like Dr Klaper if such a regimen is sensible as a short term measure for our situation.