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Recipe · Updated November 14, 2026 · By Editorial Team

Mean green juice

A tall glass of thick green smoothie with a bamboo straw on a wooden table
Quick answer. Juice 4 packed cups of kale, 6 celery stalks, 1 cucumber, 2 medium green apples, 1 peeled lemon and a 1/4 cup of sliced ginger. It makes at least 22 fl oz (650 ml) for 2 glasses, about 20 minutes, with 25 g of sugars per glass.

Mean green juice

  • Makes at least 22 fl oz (650 ml) (2 servings)
  • Serving size 1 serving = at least 11 fl oz
  • Time 20 min (15 min prep)
  • Equipment Juicer with a wide chute is easiest; cutting board, knife

Ingredients

USMetricIngredient
4 packed cups84 gkale, stems trimmed
6 medium stalks240 gcelery
1 cucumber (about 8 in)301 gcucumber, scrubbed
2 medium364 ggreen apples, cored
1 medium71 glemon, peeled
1/4 cup slices24 gginger, unpeeled

Nutrition estimate

Per serving (1 of 2), estimate

Calories170
Sugars25 g
Fibernot estimated (juicing and straining remove most of it)
Vitamin K227 µg (190% DV)
Potassium970 mg
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central values for the raw whole produce, before juicing. An estimate, not a lab analysis.

Steps

  1. Wash and scrub everything. Trim the kale stems and core the apples. Peel the lemon.

  2. Cut the celery, cucumber and apples into lengths that fit the chute. Keep the ginger in slices.

  3. Juice in this order: kale bundle, celery, apple, ginger, cucumber, lemon, then a last handful of celery to clear the screen.

  4. Stir the jug, pour into two glasses, and clean the juicer while the pulp is wet.

Storage. There is no official storage time for homemade juice, so we do not give a day count. Drink it right after making. If you must store it, use an airtight container filled to the top, keep it in a refrigerator at 40 °F (4 °C) or below and finish it as soon as you can, or freeze single servings straight after making and treat thawed juice like fresh juice.

Unpasteurized juice. Homemade and raw juice is not pasteurized. Pregnant people, young children, older adults and people with weakened immune systems should drink it right after making it from washed produce, or choose pasteurized juice. Source: FDA, Talking About Juice Safety.
Washing produce. Rinse under running water and scrub firm produce. No soap or bleach. Source: FDA, Selecting and Serving Produce Safely.
Vitamin K. Kale, spinach and other greens are high in vitamin K. People on warfarin should keep intake steady and talk to their doctor before starting daily green juice. Source: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements, Vitamin K fact sheet.
Sugar. Juice keeps the sugar and loses most of the fiber. People managing blood sugar should favour vegetable-heavy, low-fruit recipes and ask their doctor. Source: CDC, Rethink Your Drink.

General information, not medical or nutrition advice. See the recipe and nutrition disclaimer.

What goes in, by weight

Share of the produce weight, water left out. Percentages are of 1084 g.
  • kale 8% 84 g
  • celery 22% 240 g
  • cucumber 28% 301 g
  • apple 34% 364 g
  • lemon 7% 71 g
  • ginger root 2% 24 g

Make it in a blender

  1. Work in two rounds so the jug is not overfilled: half the ingredients with 120 ml (1/2 cup) of water each time.

  2. Blend each round for 60 seconds, strain through a nut milk bag, and combine the two jugs. Stir before pouring.

Swap table

Each row swaps one ingredient for the same weight of another (or leaves it out) and shows what changes in the serving. The numbers come from USDA values, not from taste.

Change per serving for each swap, same weight, computed from USDA values
SwapHowSugarsCaloriesVitamin K
apple → cucumberReplace the apples with cucumber, same weight.−15.9 g−67 kcal+26 µg
kale → spinachSame weight of spinach.−0.2 g−5 kcal+39 µg
ginger root → leave outLeave the ginger out.−0.2 g−10 kcal0 µg

Notes on this recipe

The old recipe name is the only thing kept: these amounts are ours, set in grams so a second batch comes out the same.

Two apples are most of the sugars. The swap table shows what the cucumber version does to the number.

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How the numbers are worked out

Amounts are weights in grams; the cup and spoon equivalents come from USDA portion data. Yield is a minimum: it counts the water, citrus (from our citrus data) and the produce that has a figure in the planner's juicer-maker table, and leaves out ginger. It changes with your juicer and with how fresh the produce is. Checked 2026-11-14.

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