If you and your family have a sweet tooth, this decadent blend will satisfy it. Tasting as good as it looks, this recipe is also an excellent tonic for cleansing, detoxification, and cancer prevention. Yield: 1 Smoothie Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  Juice of 3 apples 1/3 cup raspberries

My daughter bought a hibiscus cooler from a coffee shop a few summers back and after sneaking a sip I was hooked! I knew I could make this refreshing brew at home, so the next time I was at the store I picked up a box of hibiscus tea and

By introducing our children to juicing, we’re leading them onto a path of lifelong health. Getting them started couldn’t be easier than with this dessert-like recipe. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  1½ cups red or purple grapes 3 red plums 4 dates, soaked and pitted Instructions: 

I always make this sweet, aromatic juice for my family during flu season. Packed with vitamin C and bioflavonoids, this recipe helps protect us from colds and viruses. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  ½ red bell pepper 3 tomatoes ½ cup cauliflower ½ beet 3-4 sprigs

With a boost of vitamin C, enzymes, and protein, this recipe supports your immune and digestive systems. It also replenishes vital fluids and helps soothe sore throats, fevers, and arthritis. Yield: 1 smoothie Cooking Time: 0 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  1 1/2 cups pineapple (fresh or frozen) Juice of 5 tangerines

Gentle and delicious, fennel lends aromatic flare to simple apple-pear juice. Helpful for regulating your digestive tract and alleviating constipation, this recipe is especially nice in the fall when ingredients are fresh-picked and abundant. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Instructions:  2 apples 2 pears 1 cup fennel

My 6’2” son is about as comfortable in the kitchen as I would be in one of his martial arts tournaments. But give him a blender and a recipe like this one and he’s the picture of self-sufficiency.  Yield: 1 Smoothie Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  1 cup milk

This recipe was my younger daughter’s solution to sour grapefruit, and it’s become a regular breakfast favorite in our home. Since it strengthens your tissues, arteries, gums, and teeth, this juice is especially helpful for maintaining oral hygiene. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  2 pink grapefruit

When asparagus is in season, this is the first recipe to spring to mind. This delicious elixir helps release and eliminate toxins stored in your tissues. Cooling and alkalizing, it also helps reduce acidity in the body, relieve water retention, and prevent kidney stones. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep

A cold-weather favorite, this warm drink often ends up in a thermos, packed along with mittens, scarves, and the toboggan. Because they improve circulation and generate heat in your body, ginger and cinnamon help keep you warm all day long. Yield: 1 Smoothie Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  2

Though this sweet, pungent juice serves your health in many ways, it is one of the best combinations for relieving constipation. Cabbage juice also helps restore friendly bacteria to your intestines. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 0 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  1½ cups cabbage 1½ cups spinach 2 apples Instructions:  Juice

Summer has arrived in all its sunny glory and if your family is anything like mine, everyone is looking for a refreshing drink to relieve the heat of the day. This cooler is an absolute favorite with my grandchildren because they get a few lychees to munch on once they

When people ask me how I have so much energy, I usually tell them it’s because of juices like this one. Lively, light, and bursting with vital nutrients, this vegetable medley helps preserve youthful skin, improve metabolism, and protect your body from cancer. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5

This fruit combination works beautifully together. Not only does it taste delicious, but these ingredients also have a marvelous effect on your nervous system, your digestive system, and especially your skin. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  2 cups papaya ¼ cucumber 5 fresh mint leaves ¼

Mouth-watering pineapple and papaya always put me in a tropical mood. They also provide unique digestive enzymes that help our bodies break down and absorb nutrients. Yield: 1 Smoothie Cooking Time: 0 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  1½  cups pineapple 1½ cups papaya ½ cup coconut milk (Add afterward) Instructions:  Blend all

Some of my friends aren’t sure what to think when they hear of recipes like this one, but when they try it, they’re immediately won over. Adding herbs to juices and smoothies lends an exotic twist as well as extra healing powers. I’m particularly fond of basil, which makes this

If someone you care about suffers from asthma or a persistent cough, this is a pleasant combination you’ll want to share because of its calming, disinfecting, and nourishing effect on the lungs. I have this juice at least once a week. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients: 

I’ve yet to find a better recipe to clear sinus congestion than this juice, a wintertime regular in my family. Don’t go overboard on the horseradish, however; a little bit goes a long way. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  ½ red potato 6 carrots 1 heaping

When cherry season begins, don’t forget to introduce them to your juicer. Both cherries and oranges strengthen your chi, or life energy. Cherries especially help relieve arthritis, gout, and anemia. Yield:  1 Juice Cooking Time:  5 Minutes Prep Time:  5 Minutes Ingredients:  ½ cup pitted cherries (fresh or frozen) 3

This sweet and slightly peppery juice is surprisingly delicious. Rich in silicon, chlorophyll, iron, and vitamins A and C, it also helps beautify your skin and hair and alleviate joint and muscle stiffness. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  8 large lettuce leaves (romaine or curly) 3

In another of nature’s ironies, this spicy juice can be hot to the tongue but ultimately cooling to the body. It also supports thyroid and liver function, helping stimulate metabolism. Yield: 1 Juice Cooking Time: 5 Minutes Prep Time: 5 Minutes Ingredients:  2 medium tomatoes ½ cucumber 1 celery stalk 2 radishes