Boost Your Red Blood Cells With Chlorophyll Juice Recipes
Chlorophyll is an essential life giving molecule. Without it animals, rodents and mammals simply wouldn’t exist. Chlorophyll absorbs light from the sun and converts the energy of the light into carbohydrates (simple sugars). These simple sugars are the baseline food and energy supply for animals. Even 100% carnivorous animals get their energy by eating the animals that eat the sugars in plants.
Chlorophyll Builds Blood
Besides its day job of light synthesis, chlorophyll also has a unique health promoting quality (for a plant nutrient that is) if you eat it – it builds red blood cells! The chemical structure of chlorophyll is almost identical to heme. Heme is a vital component of red blood cells, without it we cannot create new blood cells. The great news is that when we actually eat (or drink) chlorophyll food sources it is actually converted to 100% hemin by the digestive process, therefore helping to make red blood cells.
Food Sources of Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll converts the red and blue colors of the sunlight spectrum into carbohydrates but not the green. This result in chlorophyll becoming a heavily green pigment that actually puts the green hue in plants. The darker green a plant the more chlorophyll it contains. This makes dark leafy greens like kale and spinach among the most abundant of edible chlorophyll containing foods. Other good sources include green vegetables like broccoli, green cabbage, loose leaf lettuce and brussel sprouts.
Why Juice Chlorophyll?
In the process of juicing vegetables we mechanically break open a lot of the roughage in them. This releases more of certain nutrients and antioxidants like chlorophyll into the juice that our digestive process might otherwise be unable to access. So a juice provides more of these nutrients (with the exception of fiber) in a form that requires next to zero digestion. They can be simply absorbed into the blood stream and ‘ready for duty’ in as little as 20 minutes.
Chlorophyll Juice Recipes #1 – Leafy Greens
Handful of spinach
Handful of kale
1 green apple
Chlorophyll Juice Recipes #2
4 carrots
2 celery stalks
1/2 cucumber (with skin on)
1 cup of broccoli heads
Handful of parsley