Fresh raw fruit and vegetable juices can be great additions to the diet of people with type 2 diabetes. The key recommendation for type 2 diabetes is to achieve ideal body weight, and of course follow a low-GL (glycemic load) diet. The following three juicing recipes help you do both.

 

Bitter Melon Juice Shot

The bitter melon (also known as bitter gourd) looks like a cucumber but with ugly gourd-like bumps all over it. One shot is all you need!

1/2 to 1/3 bitter melon with peel, sliced

Juice enough bitter melon to yield a shot-glass full.

 

Super V-7

If you like V-8, you’ll love this juice. It’s fresh, it’s alive, it’s higher in nutrients, and it doesn’t taste like it came from a can. This is a great electrolyte replacement drink for athletes in that it is very high in nutrients and low in calories.

Handful of parsley

2 carrots

Handful of spinach

2 tomatoes, quartered

2 celery ribs

1/2 cucumber

1/2 green bell pepper

2-inch piece of Jerusalem artichoke (optional)

Bunch up the parsley and push it through the juicer with the aid of a carrot. Repeat this process with the spinach. Alternate feeding the remaining ingredients into the juicer along with Jerusalem artichoke, if using.

Salad in a Glass

If you have a hard time eating salads, try juicing one. There are huge nutritional benefits provided in this drink–and it’s low in calories.

4 parsley springs

3 tomatoes, quartered

1/2 green bell pepper

1/2 cucumber

4 celery ribs

1/2 lemon with rind

Bunch up the parsley and feed into the juicer followed by the tomatoes, pepper, cucumber, celery, and lemon.