After a little bit too much alcohol the night before my friend and I changed our morning gym session to the afternoon. Then back at my house I decided we needed a juice that would help flush the remaining hangover effects out our body. Pineapples seem to be really cheap where we live right now. I haven’t juiced much of it in the past but thought it would be worth a shot and it would give us a nice vitamin C boost. Mixing this with some apples would help produce a decent amount of juice. Finally as I don’t like things that are too sweet, some ginger helped us spice things up a bit.

Perhaps it was someting to do with our hungover state but this juice tasted really good. Sweet n’ tart with some ginger warmth.

Adding the ginger, then apples and finally pineapple seems to be the best order for this juice. I use a Magimix le Duo centrifugal juicer and the pineapple does a good job of blocking up the small holes where the juice is supposed to go through. So when I do the pineapple first I get less juice for the amount of fruit I use and the pulp remains wetter.

The amounts of fruit I used for this juice were:

• 8 apples (small-ish)
• 1/2 pineapple
• big chunk of ginger

After our night of alcohol fiending this fruit juice recipe was a great to help us feel human again.

My juicing philosophy is to make a juice that is going to taste good. There is no arguing that green juices containing things like spinach, kale and so on are packed with nutrients and minerals but I have to be in a certain mood to drink that stuff. That’s not to say I don’t drink green juices. Of course I do. I am the Juice Fiend. But great taste and nutrition are not mutually exclusive.

Take for example a popular drink sold in juice bars all over the world, Carrot, Orange and Ginger juice. I don’t know anybody that doesn’t like this. With sweetness from the oranges, watered down earthy tones from the carrots and a ginger zing this is a great juice to have at breakfast time or to quench thirst at any time of day. It may not quite have the nutrient content of a green drink based around spinach but I don’t care. It still has plenty of goodness in there. As we learn when we are kids, carrots are rich in vitamin A and can give us X-ray vision; oranges give us plenty of vitamin C which is alleged to help us ward off colds (I believe the allegation) and ginger helps our digestive system. Moreover, this kind of natural fruit and vegetable drink is great for helping us to hydrate our body.

My recipe for Carrot, Orange and Ginger juice is:

• 2 large carrots
• 3 oranges
• chunk of ginger (approx 1.5cm³)

As with all juices you make, if these ratios don’t work for you, experiment with your own until you make this juice your own!

You can check out some other recipes that I love via my juice recipes page.