012 Apple Cleanser

Backstory: After a trip to the grocery store and picking up ingredients for a few juices that looked interesting, I was left with the choice of what I wanted to actually make. I realized the most of the juices I now had ingredients for were rather challenging. The few things I wasn't able to pick up (guava and papaya being out of season) meant that I had the kale and beets to work with.

Initial Thoughts Before Tasting: I hope I can manage to down everything :/

Ingredients:
2 apples
2 kale leaves
1 stick celery
1/3 long cucumber
1/2 beet (beetroot)

Thoughts After Tasting: WOW. There is a hint of something that I can't place, possibly the kale or the cucumber or even the celery but there was something enticing about the juice. Once it settled a little for a moment I thought I was drinking blueberries mixed in until I remembered what I had put in there.

Natalie Writes:

"The fruitiness of the apples offsets the more challenging taste of the greens ..."

Perhaps it was the "challenging" taste that I really enjoyed as I couldn't really taste the apples very much.

Cleaning: While making the juice it was bright (think nuclear) green with a layer of red after the beets and more green when I finished up the kale and celery. I was expecting the cleaning would be bad. (Note: the juice turned a dark burgundy once I mixed it up and the amazing green disappeared.)
● There wasn't much pulp left over though skin from the cucumber and some other bits (such as that celery again) seemed to be almost whole. Overall a pretty good yield of juice ratio to pulp.
● Quick wash for the main parts but the blade/sieve required a bit more care. I think it was some celery that got a bit too attached. Also some green fuzz was resistant (probably celery again) around the corners where the sieve meets the plastic.

Star Rating: 4/5