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Recipe · Updated November 14, 2026 · By Editorial Team

Watermelon rind green juice

A glass of pink watermelon juice with mint, beside wedges of watermelon on a wooden board
Quick answer. Peel the green skin off the watermelon rind, then juice 300 g of the white rind with 1/2 cucumber, 2 celery stalks, a peeled lime and 5 slices of ginger. It makes at least 7 fl oz (190 ml) for 2 glasses. USDA lists no figures for rind, so the nutrition panel is a minimum.

Watermelon rind green juice

  • Makes at least 7 fl oz (190 ml) (2 servings)
  • Serving size 1 serving = at least 3 fl oz
  • Time 20 min (15 min prep)
  • Equipment Juicer, or a blender with a strainer; sharp knife, peeler

Ingredients

USMetricIngredient
about 10 oz300 gwhite watermelon rind, green skin peeled off, cut in strips
1/2 cucumber150 gcucumber, scrubbed
2 medium stalks80 gcelery
1 lime67 glime, peeled
5 slices (1 in across)11 gginger, unpeeled

Nutrition estimate

Per serving (1 of 2), estimate

Caloriesat least 30
Sugarsat least 2.4 g
Fibernot estimated (juicing and straining remove most of it)
Vitamin Kat least 24 µg (20% DV)
Potassiumat least 270 mg
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central values for the raw whole produce, before juicing. An estimate, not a lab analysis.USDA FoodData Central (SR Legacy) has no entry for watermelon rind, so every figure counts only the other ingredients and is a minimum.

Steps

  1. Scrub the whole watermelon rind under running water with a brush before you cut it, so nothing on the outside is dragged into the flesh by the knife. No soap.

  2. Cut away the pink flesh for eating. Peel the tough green skin off the rind with a vegetable peeler and cut the white rind into strips 1/2 in thick.

  3. Juice the rind strips first, alternating with the celery and cucumber so the firm rind clears the screen.

  4. Add the lime and ginger last. Stir and pour into two glasses.

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.

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 608 g.
  • watermelon rind 49% 300 g
  • cucumber 25% 150 g
  • celery 13% 80 g
  • lime 11% 67 g
  • ginger root 2% 11 g

Make it in a blender

  1. Cut the rind in 1/2 in cubes and blend it with the cucumber, celery and 120 ml (1/2 cup) of water for 60 seconds.

  2. Add the lime and ginger and blend 15 seconds more. Strain through a nut milk bag, pressing the pulp.

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
lime → lemonA peeled lemon of the same weight.+0.3 g0 kcal0 µg
celery → cucumberSame weight of cucumber.+0.1 g0 kcal−5 µg
ginger root → leave outLeave the ginger out.−0.1 g−4 kcal0 µg

Notes on this recipe

FDA's produce guidance is to wash melons, including the rind, before cutting. That is why the first step is a scrub, not a rinse.

Rind makes up half the weight here, but it has no USDA nutrition entry, so every nutrition figure on this page counts only the other ingredients.

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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 white watermelon rind, ginger. It changes with your juicer and with how fresh the produce is. Checked 2026-11-14.

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