3 Healthy and Delicious Pineapple Juice Recipes

Fresh pineapple juice is not only delicious, it’s also very good for you. So beneficial in fact that it can even be used therapeutically for health problems like arthritis, digestion problems and to provide a potent nutritional boost for better skin.

The many health benefits of pineapple juice are covered in more detail in what makes pineapple healthy.

In fact, minus the fiber, the juice of pineapples is an even more concentrated form of all of the bromelain enzymes, vitamin C and other antioxidants, manganese, copper, B vitamins and other nutrition found in pineapple.

Ahead are 3 different pineapple juice recipes using pineapples blended with other healthy fruits and vegetables.

You can use these recipes for treating digestive issues, arthritis and other joint problems and as a great tasting way to improve your skin and enhance your body’s antioxidant protection.

3 Pineapple Juice Recipes for Beautiful Skin, Better Digestion and Arthritis

Make sure you’ve got a ripe pineapple before you start juicing. Here’s how to pick a good pineapple and a little-known trick to ripen them.

For all of these juice recipes, it’s good to start by adding a couple of ice cubes and a splash of lemon or lime juice to the collection container to keep the juice as fresh as possible once it comes out of your juicer. You’ll need a good juicer too to get the most out of your pineapples too.

A powerful masticating juicer, like this one I use in my kitchen, chews up and squeezes all of the liquid out of produce, even greens which most standard juicers are pretty poor at extracting juice from. There’s much more juice, much less oxidation and if you’re serious about getting all the health benefits of juicing there’s really no comparison.

Now let’s look at the 3 pineapple juice recipes, some of their health benefits and the best time to drink pineapple juice.

Recipe 1: Beet, Parsley, Cucumber and Pineapple Juice for Beautiful Skin

Pineapple juice is an exceptional source of vitamin C, needed to make collagen, the connective protein that glues your skin cells together and keeps your skin looking firm and young.

Antioxidant-rich beets are particularly good for detoxifying your liver. This is important for your appearance as an overworked liver recruits your skin into helping to eliminate toxins, resulting in blemishes and a poor complexion.

Parsley juice is very powerful and a great detoxifier. Parsley is also full of vitamin K, an important nutrient for better skin.

Hydrating cucumber is loaded with the mineral silica, considered the beautifying mineral for its positive effect on skin tone. They also have a cooling effect on the body and may help reduce skin irritation and redness.

Ingredients

• A quarter of a large pineapple.
• 1 small or half a large beet.
• Half a standard size bunch of parsley, usually 4 – 5 branches (parsley is potent so don’t overdo it).
• Half a large cucumber.

Method

Wash the beet. Unless organic, soak the parsley and cucumber in hot water with a splash of apple cider vinegar to minimize sprays. Remove the parsley and scrub the cucumber with a scrubbing brush to get the wax off.

Start with first the beet in the feeder, then, before you push it all the way through, carefully stuff in the parsley so it’s tightly packed. Follow with the cucumber and pineapple. Mix it all up and drink this juice immediately for beautiful skin.

Best Time to Drink

The ideal time to drink pineapple juice for your skin is in the morning, preferably before lunch or even before breakfast as a deliciously healthy way to start your day.

If you drink this or any other juice recipe around 20 minutes before you sit down to a meal you’ll find yourself naturally wanting to eat less which can help with weight loss too.

Recipe 2: Pineapple, Papaya, Cabbage and Ginger Juice for Better Digestion and Gastrointestinal Health

Pineapple and papaya are both rich in digestive enzymes: bromelain for pineapple and papain for papaya. These breakdown undigested proteins in your body that can cause many health problems. To really increase the papain levels in this juice, wash the skin of your papaya but keep it on when you juice it.

Cabbage is added here as it is a powerful healer of your gastrointestinal tract, particularly in juice form. Cabbage juice is especially good at preventing and even treating stomach ulcers and with the sweetness of the papaya and pineapple in the juice, you’ll barely even taste it.

Ginger is optional but recommended and you will notice a little kick at the end from it. The herb is a powerful relaxant of the smooth muscles of the digestive system and ginger juice is particularly good for intestinal cramps, bloating, gas and IBS.

Ingredients

• A quarter of a large pineapple.
• A quarter of a large papaya.
• A quarter of a medium cabbage.
• Half an inch of fresh ginger rhizome.

Method

Juice the softer papaya first, followed by the ginger and cabbage and finally the pineapple. Mix and drink this digestive health juice immediately for the most health benefits.

Best Time to Drink

The ideal time to have this pineapple juice recipe for digestion is half an hour after a big protein-based meal like a steak or burger.

For healing an inflamed digestive system, try first thing in the morning before breakfast or late in the afternoon, at least four hours after lunch.

Recipe 3: Pineapple, Carrot and Celery Juice for Arthritis Joint Pain

Pineapple juice and its anti-inflammatory bromelain are well known as a natural treatment for arthritis, though make sure you include as much of the enzyme rich core as possible.

In addition to the pineapple, organic carrots are highly alkalizing and full of antioxidants and minerals, while celery juice contains the inflammation-fighting compound luteolin, shown to help alleviate joint pain.

Ingredients

• A quarter of a large pineapple.
• 3 medium organic carrots (carrots absorb everything from the ground they are grown in and must be organic).
• 2 large stalks of celery (organic or scrub well with a splash of apple cider vinegar to remove sprays).

Method

Start with juicing the celery, followed by the pineapple and finish with the carrots. Stir up and drink it immediately for the best taste and most health benefits.

Best Time to Drink

This anti-arthritis juicing recipe should be had on an empty stomach and can be enjoyed several times a day for best results.

Before breakfast, lunch and dinner would be ideal, but if you could only make it up once then have it a few hours before arthritis symptoms are usually at their worst.

Juicing and Arthritis

Freshly made juices are a natural way to help combat the inflammation and pain of arthritis and other joint disorders. It’s well known that more fruits and vegetables in the diet help lower inflammation within the body, including the arthritic condition.

Cutting back on inflammatory foods like sugar, grains, vegetable oils and processed foods is very important in the longer term for people living with arthritis. More immediately, having pineapple juice recipes like this one may help provide relief from arthritic pain and have other benefits for reducing inflammation.

Black cherry juice is another natural remedy that shows particular promise for treating joint pain. It wasn’t included here as the right kind of cherries are difficult to find and, to be honest, juicing small stone fruit is a nightmare.

Concentrated black cherry juice is available inexpensively though and alternating a glass of this with the pineapple juice recipe above may really help with the pain of arthritis

Best Overall Time to Drink Pineapple Juice

For detoxifying, skin enhancement and arthritis treatment, pineapple juice is best had on an empty stomach, with first thing in the morning 20 minutes before breakfast ideal. 20 minutes before any other main meal of the day is also very effective

If you have digestive upsets after a big protein meal then try slowly sipping the 2nd pineapple juice recipe above at least half an hour after you eat. Drinking pineapple juice right before a protein heavy meal can also help prevent digestion problems.

I hope you enjoy making these pineapple juicing recipes and share them with any friends who might be interested. They taste great, are easy to make and can really do a lot of good for your body.

If you don’t always have the time to make pineapple juice but would still like to experience the digestive and anti-arthritic and anti-inflammatory benefits of pineapple bromelain, you can get these concentrated bromelain enzyme capsules cheaply and take them with any protein-based meals.

I’d really recommend making up these pineapple juice recipes when you get the chance though. They really are some of the best tasting medicine around.