The Celery Juice Book: And Other Plant-Powered, Cold-Pressed, Nutrition-Packed Recipes! (Everyday Wellbeing)

by Melissa Petitto, R.D.

With The Celery Juice Book, get the benefits of this nutritious food deliciously in 78 celery-based juices, smoothies, cocktails, snacks, soups, and salads. 

While hype for celery juice abounds, the visible health benefits speak for themselves. Hydrating and full of valuable vitamins and minerals such as vitamin K, vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, calcium, vitamin B6, fiber, and a variety of other nutrients your body craves, celery should be a staple in everyone’s diet. Juicing, blending, and using celery juice and celery stocks in your day to day life can lead to weight loss, balanced blood sugar levels, reduced inflammation, and additional energy, and help strengthen your body against a variety of chronic illnesses. 

Drinking 16 ounces of celery juice first thing in the morning is the recommended way of consuming celery for maximum benefits, but who wants to only drink plain celery juice every day? The Celery Juice Book provides a variety of yummy ways to ease yourself into this healthy habit. Your crash course in celery includes:

• Best practices for maximum benefits
• How to make celery juice from a blender
• Green juice and smoothie recipes featuring celery juice
• Celery snacks, broths, soups, and mains

Harness all the benefits in this hardworking plant and discover the boost for yourself.

Discover today’s top trending health and wellness topics with the Everyday Wellbeing series from Chartwell Books. From smart eating habits to personal growth advice, these engaging lifestyle guides give you the expert tips and life hacks you need to help you make good choices while practicing mindfulness and self-love. Whether you want to explore cooking with new ingredients like adaptogens and CBD, or make it a priority to incorporate self-care into your daily routine, these brightly colored take-along handbooks have the tools you need to succeed.

Other titles in the series include: Adaptogens, The CBD Handbook, The Complete Guide to Self-Care, The Instant Pot and Air Fryer Cookbook, and The Plant-Based Cookbook.
 

• ISBN13: 9780785838098
• Publish Date: 24 December 2019
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 22 December 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Book Sales Inc
• Imprint: Chartwell Books Inc.,U.S.
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 160
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog Nonstop Reader.

The Celery Juice Book is a recipe collection for using celery and its juice in diverse ways from straight juice to smoothies and more traditional soups and stews. Due out 24th Dec 2019 from Quarto on their Chartwell imprint, it's 160 pages and will be available in hardcover format.

There is undoubtedly a lot of good advice in upping our intake of raw and unprocessed foods. More solid nutrients, fewer empty calories, fewer bad choices ... all of those are good for us. This book (and author) are very enthusiastic, zealous even, proponents of every kind of green smoothie you can think of. This book concentrates on celery of course, but it doesn't just have a feature role in the recipes here. There are smoothies including fruit, other vegetables, nut milks and other interesting ingredients. The recipes run the gamut from straight juices to more complex main dishes and there's even a recipe for dog treats included.

The recipes we tried all tasted 'healthy and good for you'. There weren't any gooey, cheesy, comfort food type recipes. For readers looking for those, this book won't be a good fit. On the other hand, there really were a lot of recipes which will appeal to readers already following a plant based diet who are really making an earnest effort to improve their food choices and who are maybe following a special diet (like anti-inflammatory, gluten free, etc). Not -all- of the recipes will fit into a special diet, but there are a number which are potentially useful, but none of them are marked as AIP or other diet compliant, so readers will have to be aware and check their protocol lists.

Each of the recipes includes an introductory description, ingredients listed in a bullet point sidebar (US measurements given, with metric in parentheses), and step by step instructions. There is no nutritional info provided. The recipes are all photographed very well and clearly. Serving suggestions are attractive and appropriate.

The recipe ingredients themselves are easily sourced and will be available at most well stocked grocery stores. I was amused to see a whole chapter dedicated to cocktails including celery in one form or another. I'm not sure how easily dirty celery martinis and celery juice mojitos will catch on, but solid points for trying.

Four stars for the celery fans out there.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.