Make "Sergeant Pepper" Juice

Sergeant_pepper_juice.jpg

Description

You get a lot of fresh juice from capsicums. They surprise you because you can smell the peppery aroma but the taste is sweet. The mint really comes through in the taste and works well with the peppers or capsicums as we call them.

Ingredients

  • 2 red capsicum

  • 2 yellow capsicum

  • 2 carrots

  • 2 radish

  • 1 sprig mint

Juicing Time: 2 mins

Juice Qty: 1000 ml

Preparation

Capsicums (1 min)

  • Remove the green stems

  • Cut into halves or quarters to fit in the wide chute

  • Remove excess seeds (you can juice them)

Carrots (30 sec)

  • Cut carrots lengthwise once

  • If larger carrots are used cut again lengthwise into quarters

Radish (10 sec)

  • Cut in half and remove leaves (they can be juiced if you like)

  • Juice with skin on

Mint (30 sec)

  • remove the leaves from the woody stems

HEALTHY BENEFITS

Peppers or capsicums are just outright good for your health. They have very few calories but are packed with nutrients and come in many varied colours. The red capsicums, yellow capsicums and carrots in this juice are rich in beta carotene. The consumption of this powerful nutrient reduces your risk of some types of cancers including breast, stomach and intestinal cancers. Lycopene found in red capsicum is a carotenoid whose consumption has also been linked to lower rates of breast cancer, prostate cancer and cancers of the cervix, bladder and pancreas.

Capsicums are also high in Vitamin C, a red capsicum triples that of a orange.

recipe, knowledge, juiceKuvings NZcapsicum, radish, mint, carrot