Green Leafy Vegetables:

For Super Nutrition and Balance!

Green leafy vegetables can provide major nutrition, in addition to balancing acidic levels of other foods. Added to green smoothies and other healthy recipes, they are especially building for muscle and tissue strength.

Dark green leafy vegetables are making there way to the lime light of nutrition. They are a perfect addition to a healthy diet plan for they offer a great way to alkalize and balance most meals.

There fiberous nature cleans out the entire digestive tract as they move through the stomach and colon.

Try our raw kale salad recipe for a great way to get your DARK greens in a delicious salad!

We like to add dark leafys and wild edible greens to green smoothies, raw salads, and use them to wrap up raw pates or tacos. They go well with a variety of fermented foods such as sauerkraut, seed cheese, and homemade miso soups.

The sense of equilibrium when eating greens with other more acidic foods helps with greater overall nutrient absorption and digestive function.

Eat Your Greens for Fuel!

After drinking a glass of fresh green raw juice, you will feel calmed from the minerals it supplies that nourishe and ground the mind.

Greens are an important part of the raw food diet to help provide protein for building and toning muscle.

Gorillas, who forage on mostly leafy green vegetables, are one of the strongest body builders known in the animal kingdom.

Dark Leafy Greens!

Arugula - or also known as "rocket lettuce". You will understand the term once you taste the spicy nut-like flavor of this crucerferous green known for it's anti-cancer compounds. Great source of folic acid, Vit A, C, magnesium, calcium and manganese, potassium, riboflavin, copper, iron and zinc. I love the arugula flavor accented in salads to give an extra special taste delight.

Collard greens - amazing source of vitamins like: B6, C (one cup provides 70% RDA), carotenes, manganese, Vit. B1, B2 and E. Minerals: copper, calcium and copper. Collard greens are great to rolling raw burritos and their flavor is nicely balanced with savory seed cheeses, and nut pates.

Kale - their are many varieties of kale out there. Our favorite by far is "dino kale", for it's super dark green color and rich taste. One delicious way to eat kale is marinated in raw kale salads, add some pine nuts, sundried tomatoes and you've got a delicious, nutritious meal. Kale is especially beneficial because of it's high calcium/lower phosphorus ratio, it helps conditions such as osteoporosis that tend to have an excess of phosphorus which leaches calcium from the body.

Mustard greens - this is a great leafy to add to salad, but beware, it is on the spicy side. Mustard is especially beneficial for woman in cases of menopause, breast and heart health. It provides quality bone support with it's high levels of calcium, magnesium and folic acid.

Bok Choy - an excellent green we like to use in raw stir frys, marinated in raw fats, because of it's crunchy stalk and tasty green leaf. The entire "brassica rapa" family including: tatsoi, mizuna, rapini, komatsuna, well known in European and Asian cuisine, are recently becoming popular around the world for their unique flavors and gourmet textures.

Spinach - known for it's high iron content, coming in at twice the amount of other greens, is also an incredibly alkaline food. It is one of the highest sources of lutein which help promote clear eye sight.

Lettuce - this green leafy vegetable is probably the most common in diets worldwide. There are many varieties to discover and choose from. Lettuce is a great mineralizer with high water content that is said to relax the body. It is most popular in salads but can be used as a wrap or juiced into juice recipes.

Parsley - high in folic acid, which is important in cell regeneration and repair. Help to cleanse the kidneys and assist in diabetes. It has a wonderful fresh taste which blends well in most any fresh juice. Italian parsley, as opposed to the curlier variety, is more nutritious and it great in most raw food dishes.

Cilantro - has been well studied for it's effects at being able to detox mercury from the body. It's unique flavor is favored by many in salsa, pesto, and I just plain love it in a nice salad.

These raw super greens are a great place to start with a healthy diet plan. They offer the enzyme nutrition and pure water content as well as fiber to tone and rebuild digestion.

After adding more green leafy vegetables to my diet I noticed my digestive muscles begin to tone and strengthen from the increase of fibrous material moving through my system.

Great with seed cheese, sauerkraut and other fermented foods.

Enjoy your greens in our healthy recipes in raw soups!

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