Thirty Days of Juice! Day 18
Sweet Potato Punch
Makes one large glass or two small glasses.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup alfalfa, buckwheat or sunflower sprouts
- 1 orange
- 1 sweet potato
- 1 apple
- 1 cup fresh pineapple
- 1 tsp flax oil
Directions:
- Wash, peel and chunk sweet potato, pineapple and orange.
- Wash, core and chunk apple.
- Rinse sprouts.
- Feed ingredients through a juicer.
- Pour and enjoy!
Health Tip: According to The World’s Healthiest Foods, it’s important to have some fat in your sweet potato-containing meals if you want to enjoy the full beta-carotene benefits of this root vegetable. Recent research has shown that a minimum of 3-5 grams of fat per meal significantly increases our uptake of beta-carotene from sweet potatoes.
