Cucumber juice for weight loss and glowing skin recipe – This juice is loaded with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that helps boost your digestive enzymes. This does helps better absorption of nutrients and promotes weight loss.
After my previous post on A Homemade Drink For Boosting Immunity Recipe, This time i am going to share a recipe suitable for the hot summer season. It helps hydrate, nourish and flush out toxins.
Ayurvedic Tips On How To Keep Cool In Summer
Try to include Mint, Coriander, Ginger, Gooseberry, cucumber and fruits like watermelon and apple in your diet.
Apply coconut oil to your scalp and hair. Leave it overnight or for a couple of hours. Shampoo and condition as usual. Do this once a week
If you are sweating a lot, you can sip on buttermilk blended with ginger and curry leaves. This helps replenish the lost electrolytes in your body. You may also use the below juice to combat heat and fatigue.
Video Instructions – Juice for Weight Loss and Glowing Skin
Below i have mentioned why i have used these herbs, their vitamin and mineral content, Benefits and chaat masala recipe.
Cucumber Benefits
- It has Vitamins like A, K And C along with Minerals like magnesium, potassium with silicon and sulphur
- Magnesium helps maintain blood pressure levels
- Treats fatigue and brain fog, poor concentration
- Low in calories
- Prevents water retention in the body
- Natural and mild laxative
- Detoxifies the body
- Aids digestion
- Hydrates the body
- Provides nourishing electrolytes
- Flush out toxins
- Reduces bloating, acidity, heartburn
- Anti inflammatory
- Cools down body heat in summers and in case of a fever
- Reduces stress, anxiety and depression
- Benefits skin conditions like eczema and Psoriasis
- Like curry leaves, cucumbers also helps improves eye sight
- Soothes irritated skin and puffy eyes
- Beneficial for hair growth and to stop hair loss
Coriander Benefits
Coriander or Cilantro contains Vitamin B3, B2, B1, B5, B6, Choline, Vitamin A, C,E and K.
It also has folates and Minerals like, Calcium, Iron, Copper Magnesium, Manganese, Potassium, Selenium, Zinc, Sodium And Phosphorus
- Fights inflammation and other minor infections
- Boosts immunity
- Has plenty of anti oxidants
- Lowers blood sugar and blood pressure levels
- improve brain function
- Anti cancer properties
- Reduces anxiety
- Reduces bloating
- Promotes better digestive and gut health
- Treats acne and pigmentation
- Improves skin health
- Inhibits cell damage and also, reverses oxidative stress
Mint Benefits
Mint leaves contains Vitamin A, B-6, C And Minerals like, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron
- Promotes weight loss- boost metabolism because it does trigger digestive enzyme production
- Maintains stress hormone ‘Cortisol‘ thus helps manage stress and anxiety
- Does release the happy hormone ‘Serotonin‘ and hence reduces depression
- Helps nutrient absorption
- Contains “Salicylic acid” which helps treat acne.Use homemade Mint face mask for this purpose.
- Contain an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent called “Rosmarinic acid“.
- Antiseptic and anti bacterial
- Works as a relaxant
- Inhibits bacterial growth in mouth and thus, prevents bad breath
- Calming soothing herb
- Better digestive health
- Anti-allergenic
- Soothes breathing problems like asthma
- Treats nausea
- May relieve headache
- Improves brain function
Ginger Benefits
Ginger contains the Vitamins B, and also C and Minerals like, Iron, Zinc, Potassium, Sodium, Magnesium and phosphorus.
- Anti inflammatory
- Reduces muscle pain and joint stiffness
- Relieves common cold
- Protects against certain types of cancer
- Good for nausea, vomiting
- Helps lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels
- Promotes better digestion
- Treats indigestion
- Palliates period cramps
- Improves brain function
If your purpose of using ginger is to cool your body heat in summer, use only FRESH GINGER and not the dried or powdered form of it.
Curry leaves Benefits
Curry leaves contains the Vitamins C and Vitamin B like Thiamine, Niacin ,Riboflavin , Folic Acid and Minerals like Calcium,Phosphorus,Iron, Copper, Magnesium, Zinc, Manganese, Chromium
- Anti bacterial, anti cancer and anti inflammatory
- Contains ample antioxidants
- Aids weight loss
- Stimulates digestive enzymes
- Lowers blood sugar levels
- Treats constipation
- Helps reduce stress and depression
- Curry leaves paste heals boils and bruises
- Improves brain function
- Promotes hair growth
If you are focusing on weight loss alone, better go for curry leaves powder. It is highly concentrated when compared to 10 or 15 fresh leaves.
Please do not skip curry leaves while making this weight loss juice.
Juice For Weight Loss And Glowing Skin Recipe
- Cucumber – 2
- Ginger – 1 or 2 inch piece
- Coriander/Cilantro – Half cup
- Mint Leaves – Half cup
- Curry Leaves – 15 to 20
- Lemon juice – half of one
- Chaat Masala – 1 Teaspoon
- Black salt – as needed
- Water – 3 glass full
Chaat masala adds flavour to the otherwise bland cucumber juice. If you do not have it then just skip it. Or add the chaat masala ingredients separately.
I have tried this juice without adding chaat masala too and it tastes fine (to me at least). I changed the recipe as my husband was not a fan of its taste.
What Is Chaat Masala?
The ingredients in Chaat masala are, dry mango powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, black pepper powder, asafoetida powder and black salt.You can find chaat masala online or in super markets easily.
Depending on your preference, you may also add dried mint leaves, carom seeds and chilli flakes while making your own chaat masala.
Chaat masala is a blend of many spices that contain antioxidants, vitamins and minerals in them. They certainly help boost the digestive fire and also promotes digestion.
The ingredients in chaat masala helps lower blood pressure levels. They prevent bloating and gas too.
How To Make Weight Loss Juice
Add the sliced cucumber and ginger pieces to a blending jar along with other herbs.
You can add chaat masala now.
Chaat masala already has black salt in it so, check the salt after blending and add more black salt if needed. You may also add rock salt too.
Blend with half cup of water.
Filter the mixture. (I usually do not filter mine as we will be filtering all the fibre, But my husband does not like it unfiltered, literally no one else does :)) So filtered, unfiltered, your choice.
Add three cups of water to it. You can adjust the consistency of the juice to however you want.
Drink this throughout the day to hydrate and nourish your body this summer.
This juice for weight loss and glowing skin can be made easily.
Refrigerate for 30 minutes or more before serving. It tastes better that way.
Or you can add ice cubes to it.
