Grapefruit Juice

How to make grapefruit juice: a blend of citrus and apple juice made in a blender! It is naturally sweet and refreshing.

Here’s a delicious and refreshing juice you can make in a blender: grapefruit juice! Sure, you can just squeeze and sip the juice from a grapefruit, but it can taste sour and bitter on its own. Add a few apples to make it naturally sweet and just a touch of honey and it’s an incredibly refreshing drink! Here’s what you need to know about making grapefruit juice in a blender.

Benefits of Grapefruit Juice: Why Drink It?

Why consume grapefruit in the form of juice? There are many inflated health claims about juices like celery juice and green juice. Here’s what we know:

• When you drink the juice, you get all the good qualities of the fruit: except for the fiber. It’s even better to eat the whole fruit. So if you’re wondering if you shouldn’t just eat a grapefruit, grab this one instead!
• Avoid juice cleanses. Research links juice cleanses to eating disorders and a negative relationship with food (read more here).
• Grapefruit is low in calories but high in nutrients like vitamin C and vitamin A. If you drink the juice, you will get all the vitamins of this fruit. A grapefruit provides 128% of your daily vitamin C intake and 56% of your daily vitamin A intake (source).
• Grapefruit juice is a good alternative to sodas or other sugary drinks. It’s a better choice than drinking the empty calories and sugar from a soda pop.

Ingredients for grapefruit juice

Drinking pure grapefruit juice made from citrus fruits can taste intensely sour and bitter. So adding naturally sweet fruits like apples brings out the flavor: it brightens it up in a refreshing drink! We like it sweet with just a hint of honey: it brings out the flavor of the fruit. Here’s what you’ll need to make homemade grapefruit juice:

• Pink grapefruit
• apples
• Ice
• Cold water
• Salt
• honey, maple or agave syrupOptional

How to Make Grapefruit Juice (In a Blender)

It’s easy to make grapefruit juice in a blender: it comes together quickly! The only part that takes a little time is the effort. Here are the main steps:

• Blend all ingredients on high power until pureed and smooth. Mashing it with ice will help cool it down a bit before drinking.
• blunt! This is the important part. Strain the juice through a medium or fine mesh strainer, or through a bag of nut milk (a bag of nut milk works faster). Using a medium-mesh sieve will result in a juice with more pulp, giving you more fiber. A fine-mesh sieve makes it very clear. Discard this pulp or see some uses below.

What to do with pulp

Do you save your juice porridge? Honestly, we usually throw it away. It’s a waste to throw away all those fibers. But to be honest: you don’t have a lot of great things to do with it. Here are some ways we’ve used it:

• Add to smoothies. Save the pulp and add to smoothies: you can even freeze it for a frozen texture! Try it in a grapefruit smoothie.
• To the compost! Really, this organic matter is the best thing in your compost pile. Learn more about Composting 101.

More grapefruit recipes

There are so many ways to use this delicious citrus fruit! In fact, grapefruit cocktails are one of our favorite variations. Here are a few ideas:

This grapefruit juice recipe is…

Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free.