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| Mean Green Juice |
This is the"Mean Green" Juice drinkrecipeused in their Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead movie, sometimes called the Joe Cross diet or the Joe Cross recipe. During the filming of the documentary movie Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, overweight Joe Cross and Phil Staples ate a diet mix ofvegetablesand fruits made into juice by his Breville juicer, commonly called juicing. Thenutritionalvalue benefits of this green juice drink recipes is below.
Remember the veggie purchase by Joe Cross at the pickup truck on the side of the road at the beginning of the Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead movie? Joe bought onions, tomatoes and celery for his raw juice recipes and his 60 day juice fast. We assume thesevegetablesto be organic, but this is not required. You can also see carrots though out the movie as he juices his way across the USA to lose weight. Joe Cross also consumed various fruit and juice drinks.
If your looking to juicing for cleansing or just to reduce weight, this juice recipe works very well and gives your body most of what it needs to get healthier while enjoying the benefits of juicing.
TIPS: Don't rush out and buy multiple pounds of everyvegetable.Peeling the lemon takes away some of thebitterness in the juice.Kale has a strong taste, try 60g to start with. If the taste to you is awful, use romaine lettuce instead of the kale. More tips on juicing and start up can be found HERE.
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| Phil and Joe 2013 |
There are many raw green juice or "Joe Cross juice cleanse recipes" available on the web. Is this the best green juice recipe? That is up to you to decide. A bit of this and a bit of that, and you can make a green juice that you can enjoy in any juice cleanse or diet. You can also go to a juice bar and try many different juicing recipes. "Jamba Juice" is a well known place with many healthy drinks to try, although many are heavy with fruit. Wheat grass is another popular juice with juicers.Let me know what recipes you come up with by posting in the comments section.
Mean Green Juice nutrition facts and nutritional information
Joe's organic mean green juice recipe has no Vitamin D or B12(see info below), this is the reason why you should not consume this raw foodvegetablejuice drink as your only meal. If you make thisvegetablejuice as your only meal, you should be taking a vitamin supplement. Australian Joe Cross, has since added spinach to this juicing recipe as seen in the video below. Time marches on.
6 Kale leaves (113g)
4 celery stalks (136g)
1 cucumber (301g)
2 apples, green (granny smith) (364g)
1/2 of a lemon (29g)
lump of Ginger (11g)
Here's the approximate nutrient values for the above recipe(not per "juice") as listed, based on the USDA charts.This Joe Cross juice he called mean green, supplied a steady stream of nutrients for his body. To compute your daily vitamin/mineral intake, multiply the values given times the number of recipes you consume per day, compare this against your juicing goals.
Nutritional value information of Mean Green
| Water | g | 1015.247 |
| Energy | kcal | 356.300 |
| Energy | kJ | 1497.600 |
| Protein | g | 9.228 |
| Total lipid (fat) | g | 2.422 |
| Ash | g | 5.994 |
| Carbohydrate, by difference | g | 86.103 |
| Fiber, total dietary | g | XXXX |
| Sugars, total | g | 49.267 |
| Sucrose | g | 7.956 |
| Glucose (dextrose) | g | 12.788 |
| Fructose | g | 25.630 |
| Lactose | g | 0.000 |
| Maltose | g | 0.030 |
| Galactose | g | 1.987 |
| Starch | g | 2.680 |
| Minerals | ||
| Calcium, Ca | mg | 352.250 |
| Iron, Fe | mg | 4.043 |
| Magnesium, Mg | mg | 135.910 |
| Phosphorus, P | mg | 256.180 |
| Potassium, K | mg | 2205.330 |
| Sodium, Na | mg | 301.060 |
| Zinc, Zn | mg | 1.691 |
| Copper, Cu | mg | 0.690 |
| Manganese, Mn | mg | 1.584 |
| Fluoride, F | µg | 27.965 |
| Selenium, Se | µg | 3.317 |
| Vitamins | ||
| Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid | mg | 186.023 |
| Thiamin | mg | 0.345 |
| Riboflavin | mg | 0.522 |
| Niacin | mg | 2.831 |
| Pantothenic acid | mg | 1.922 |
| Vitamin B-6 | mg | 0.839 |
| Folate, total | µg | 177.520 |
| Folic acid | µg | 0.000 |
| Folate, food | µg | 177.520 |
| Folate, DFE | mcg_DFE | 177.520 |
| Choline, total | mg | 53.444 |
| Betaine | mg | 0.966 |
| Vitamin B-12 | µg | 0.000 |
| Vitamin B-12, added | µg | 0.000 |
| Vitamin A, RAE | mcg_RAE | 961.450 |
| Retinol | µg | 0.000 |
| Carotene, beta | µg | 11472.680 |
| Carotene, alpha | µg | 33.400 |
| Cryptoxanthin, beta | µg | 124.100 |
| Vitamin A, IU | IU | 19245.360 |
| Lycopene | µg | 0.000 |
| Lutein + zeaxanthin | µg | 45721.310 |
| Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) | mg | 1.630 |
| Vitamin E, added | mg | 0.000 |
| Tocopherol, beta | mg | 0.030 |
| Tocopherol, gamma | mg | 0.090 |
| Tocopherol, delta | mg | 0.000 |
| Vitamin D (D2 + D3) | µg | 0.000 |
| Vitamin D | IU | 0.000 |
| Vitamin K (phylloquinone) | µg | 1068.786 |
| Dihydrophylloquinone | µg | 0.000 |
| Lipids | ||
| Fatty acids, total saturated | g | 0.476 |
| 4:00 | g | 0.000 |
| 6:00 | g | 0.000 |
| 8:00 | g | 0.001 |
| 10:00 | g | 0.000 |
| 12:00 | g | 0.007 |
| 14:00 | g | 0.027 |
| 15:00 | g | 0.000 |
| 16:00 | g | 0.392 |
| 17:00 | g | 0.000 |
| 18:00 | g | 0.045 |
| 20:00 | g | 0.000 |
| 22:00 | g | 0.000 |
| 24:00:00 | g | 0.000 |
| Fatty acids, total monounsaturated | g | 0.216 |
| 14:1 | g | 0.000 |
| 15:1 | g | 0.000 |
| 16:1 undifferentiated | g | 0.007 |
| 17:1 | g | 0.000 |
| 18:1 undifferentiated | g | 0.205 |
| 20:1 | g | 0.001 |
| 22:1 undifferentiated | g | 0.000 |
| 20:2 n-6 c,c (Eicosadienoic acid) | g | 0.000 |
| Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated | g | 0.944 |
| 18:2 undifferentiated (Linoleic acid) | g | 0.666 |
| 18:3 undifferentiated (Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA)) | g | 0.262 |
| 18:3 n-6 c,c,c | 0.000 | |
| 18:4 (Parinaric acid) | g | 0.000 |
| 20:3 undifferentiated (Podocarpic acid) | g | 0.000 |
| 20:4 undifferentiated (Arachidonic acid (AA)) | g | 0.002 |
| 20:5 n-3 (EPA) | g | 0.000 |
| 22:5 n-3 (DPA) | g | 0.000 |
| 22:6 n-3 (DHA) | g | 0.000 |
| Cholesterol | mg | 0.000 |
| Phytosterols | mg | 105.530 |
| Amino acids | 0.000 | |
| Tryptophan | g | 0.092 |
| Threonine | g | 0.309 |
| Isoleucine | g | 0.376 |
| Leucine | g | 0.500 |
| Lysine | g | 0.441 |
| Methionine | g | 0.074 |
| Cystine | g | 0.078 |
| Phenylalanine | g | 0.335 |
| Tyrosine | g | 0.198 |
| Valine | g | 0.404 |
| Arginine | g | 0.427 |
| Histidine | g | 0.166 |
| Alanine | g | 0.373 |
| Aspartic acid | g | 1.087 |
| Glutamic acid | g | 1.392 |
| Glycine | g | 0.353 |
| Proline | g | 0.347 |
| Serine | g | 0.319 |
| Other | ||
| Alcohol, ethyl | g | 0.000 |
| Caffeine | mg | 0.000 |
| Theobromine | mg | 0.000 |
You should note the areas in red above, they indicate a short fall that requires supplementation. We store between 2 and 5 milligrams of vitamin B12 and only excrete a very small fraction of B12 each day. Nevertheless, over time, vitamin B12 deficiency can develop if stores are not replenished with vitamin B12 from the diet or from supplements. Although bacteria in the large intestine of humans do produce vitamin B12, this intestinal vitamin B12 does not appear to be absorbed and is not adequate to prevent a vitamin B12 deficiency.
Vegans should use a vitamin B12 supplement, either as a single supplement or in a multivitamin should use supplements regularly. Even though a supplement may contain many times the recommended intake level of vitamin B12, when vitamin B12 intake is high, not as much appears to be absorbed. This means in order to meet your needs, you should take a daily vitamin B12 supplement routinely.
Many adults obtain adequate vitamin D if they regularly spend time outdoors in spring, summer and autumn (winter needs to be supplemented) with body exposure. A dietary intake of vitamin D in the winter can be ensured by eating fortified foods or taking supplements. In northern latitudes vegan women who are breast feeding should ensure their intake during winter by using fortified foods or taking supplements.
Please take a moment and let me know your thoughts on juicing and your diet goals. Related search terms used by many include, juice cleanse, raw foods and juice fast.
