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Juicing For Kids

By JRD Staff
Updated October 16, 2019

Juicing for Kids? YES!

The fact is kids don’t like vegetables and fruits at all. It’s because our parents make it impossible to skip these things that they tend to eat a little. But did you know that juicing is an excellent way to provide nutrition to a child’s growing requirements? In fact, most kids actually love juice more than the real thing. If you make them with the right ingredients, they actually taste awesome.

In fewer quantities, the juice is actually just as beneficial to kids as it is to adults. Unfortunately, many parents are concerned about the lack of nutrition that juices provide to kids but they don’t realize the harm they are doing by feeding junk stuff to them. This is absurd since fresh juice is actually the best thing for a human body, regardless of whether it is growing or not. A juice diet incorporated into a normal healthy diet helps in supplementing a lot of their vitamin and mineral requirements.

Here are some ideas to help you get started

Remember not to give babies juice as they are supposed to drink mother’s milk until they are of minimum age. Alternatively, mothers should consume more juice to pass on the benefits.
For children as young as 3 to 12 years, dilute the juice with water in a 1:1 ratio and give no more than 145ml each day. Nevertheless, undiluted juice in small quantities is not a bad thing either.
Teenagers can take undiluted juice as it is.
Watercress, Parsley, beets, kale, spinach are all strong juices and they are good in small doses but it’s best to mix them with fruits and sweet ingredients to hide the otherwise green taste these veggies have. These ingredients are also the most effective in cleansing the body and providing nourishment too.
Do not involve kids in a juice fasting regime.
Just like soup and broth are an excellent cure for children recovering from flu or cold, so is fresh grape or apple juice. Orange and other citric juices are to be avoided at such times.
Basically, don’t feel scared feeding juice to kids as its raw and in the purest of form. The only reason why kids may initially have an adverse reaction to juice is that their body is not used to eating such stuff.

A Few Additional Tips

To begin feeding juice to children, start with diluted servings once a week. Then build up the servings from one to two and so on through the next couple of weeks. Try out different juices and find something that they appreciate. Let them get accustomed to the unique taste of juices and then you can start combining various ingredients together. After the first couple of weeks mix juices up in the week to keep it fresh and different.

Some of the juice recipes kids tend to love are apple juice, pineapple and carrot juice, orange juice, orange and carrot juice, apple-carrot juice, apple-grape juice, pear juice, and avocado juice.

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