Name: Blender Celery Juice
Prep time: 5 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 2-3 stalks of organic celery; 1 cup water

Blender Celery Juice is the quick way to get the healthy mineral salts to balance the gut HCL and improve digestion, staving off GERD and reflex.

There’s nothing better than celery to get your gut back on track.

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of celery juice to reset the gut. It helps improve the balance of stomach HCl so you can better digest food, helping prevent and treat reflux and GERD, and it’s chocked full of nutrients.

Find more about why I love celery juice here.

And timing is important

It’s best when you drink it by itself, 45 minutes before any other food, on an empty stomach.

That usually means first thing in the morning, so it’s easiest to make it yourself at home.

But making celery juice can be wasteful of the good fibrous materials and can also take a while because juicers are not notoriously quick things to clean.

That’s why I’ve started making celery juice in my blender.

When I’m at home I use my high power blender. It leads to fewer chunks of celery and more juicy celery liquid. I use the Ninja Chef because it’s high power and cheaper than Vitamix with all of the same settings. This is the one I use.

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I also love magic bullets, so much that I keep one at my hotel so I can have it handy on work trips. It’s also great for whipping up coconut milk for awesome paleo bowls like this one.

But any blender should work.

I like to make the celery juice first thing, then workout and shower and get ready for my day. That way I can still eat breakfast at home while giving the 45 minutes of time for the celery to work its magic on my belly.

Making Blender Celery Juice

Just toss the celery in the blender, covering in water, and pulse until you get a juice-like consistency.

You can drink it as is, or strain juice using a cheesecloth or nut milk bag to remove the pulp and make a more traditional juice.

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Then if you are making a smoothie for breakfast, you can just reuse the same blender and only have to wash one thing once.

But just celery?

Yup!

That’s the key. And while it may seem gross, it is really quite refreshing. Just chug it at first and eventually, you’ll develop a taste for it, especially as you cut out sugar and processed foods. Your taste buds will adapt.

Use organic celery because celery is one of the vegetables most likely to be doused with harmful pesticides.

From just 5-6 stalks of celery, you’ll start your day with a balanced gut and

33% of your daily vitamin K
8% daily potassium
5% vitamin b2
4% calcium
among others.

Celery and the Gut

Celery is known to be anti-inflammatory, especially in the digestive tract. That’s why its recommended on an empty stomach so that it can decrease inflammation in an otherwise empty gut.

From Worlds Healthiest Foods:

“Some of the unique non-starch polysaccharides in celery—including apiuman—appear especially important in producing these anti-inflammatory benefits. (Unlike starchy polysaccharides that provide plants with a way to store simple sugars, these non-starch polysaccharides in celery help provide this vegetable with its unique structure and are not made from simple sugars but rather from pectins.)”

Juicer Celery Juice vs. Blender Celery Juice

Both are delicious ways to heal your gut and balance out the HCL in the stomach.

Blender method

The blender method uses less celery and leads to less food waste. You are eating the entire celery stalk, so you get the added benefit of additional fiber. The main reason I like this method is the cleanup. A blender is quicker to clean than a juicer, which is important to me in the mornings.

The downside is that it has a consistency closer to a smoothie so it can be a little chewier than a juice and you can’t drink it as fast.

However, you can resolve that by pouring your celery ‘smoothie’ through a nut milk bag or cheesecloth to strain out the pulp manually.

Juicer Method

On the flip side, celery juice allows you to pack more mineral salts into one cup and is easier to drink quickly. However, you may have food waste if you don’t turn your celery scraps into fritters. Plus you have to clean a juicer.