This juice is delicious and refreshing for the this warm weather. It is rich in vitamin C, so important now with the virus pandemic. Vitamin C is a master anti-oxidant, and it is a essential nutrients that the body needs every day.
it is a water-soluble vitamin, meaning that the body eliminates it every day with the urine, and needs to replenished everyday.
The combination of orange, grapefruit & lemon, guarantees a huge amount of Vitamin C, low sugar and good training for you taste buds thanks to the bitterness of the grapefruit.
Substitutions: you can swap lemon per lime.
Ingredients
serves 1-2
Method
- 1 red grapefruit
- 1 orange
- 1/2 lemon
Simply juice all the agrumes and combine the juice in a tall glass or mug. Add 1/3 or 1/2 of water and serve. You can add some mint of ice for decoration. Enjoy!
The importance of retraining your taste buds to get off sugar
Do you have a sweet tooth? It is important to introduce different kinds of flavors in your diet to retrain your taste buds and get off sugar.
Introducing bitter fruits and vegetables to your diet, like radicchio or grapefruit, will help you retrain those taste buds. This juice strike a balance between the natural grapefruit bitterness and the sweetness of the orange to make it more palatable.
