A Guide to Mixing Juice

Understanding how to combine different types of juice may improve your success in making fresh juice that is easier to digest.

This is a method for selecting the right juices to mix, according to their compatibility. As a result, easy digestion is promoted. When you consume juice or food it undergoes many changes and is broken down into its constituent nutrients and then absorbed. A noteworthy feature of digestive secretions is that your body adjusts its fluid and enzymes to the character of the food eaten and juices consumed.

There are, however, limitations in this process. It is possible for your body to adjust its digestive secretions to a particular juice, however, complex it may be, but this adjustment process can be incomplete when a variety of juices are consumed at the same time. This combining of incompatible juices may cause digestive disorder.

Fruit juice is categorized according to the type of fruit it is from.

The four fruit categories: Sweet fruits, acidic fruits, sub acidic fruits, and watery fruits.

☞ Sweet fruits are bananas and dried fruits. Bananas are ripe enough to eat when they begin to have brown spots. Bananas should not be eaten when they have or are green on the tips.

☞ Acidic fruits are sectional fruits such as oranges, pineapples, grapefruits, lemons, and berries.

☞ Sub acidic fruits are grapes, apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, or any fleshy type fruit.

☞ Watery fruits are the melons.

Suggested Juice Combinations

Of course you are free to experiment and drink to your taste, but if you would like a more predictable result with your juice combinations consider the following recipe guide. Just as you wear different clothes according to season, various juice combinations may be more compatible. Here are some suggested combinations:

1. Juice of sweet fruits can be combined or mixed with the juice of sub acid fruits, but not with those of acid fruits.

2. Juice of sub acid fruits can be mixed with sweet fruit or acid fruit juice but not with the other juices.

3. Juice of acid fruits can be mixed with sub acid fruit juice, but not with the other juices.

4. Juice of vegetable fruits may be combined with those of acid fruits or green leafy vegetables, but not with other juices.

5. Juice of green leafy vegetables can be mixed with those of vegetable fruits or of the root vegetables, but not with other juices.

6. Juice of root vegetables can be mixed with green leafy vegetable juice, but not with the other juices.

◉ Note: Some fresh juice drinkers violate these suggested guidelines and enjoy or prefer the resulting taste and just bare any digestive challenge.