Grapefruit Juice

Here’s how to make grapefruit juice: a mix of citrus and apple juice made in a blender! It’s naturally sweetened and refreshing.

Here’s a delicious, refreshing juice you can make in a blender: Grapefruit Juice! Sure, you can simply squeeze out the juice of a grapefruit and slurp it up: but it can taste sour and bitter on its own. Add a few apples to make it naturally sweet and just a touch of honey, and it’s an incredibly refreshing beverage! Here’s what to know about making grapefruit juice in a blender.

Grapefruit juice benefits: why drink it?

Why consume grapefruit in juice form? There are loads of inflated health claims around juices like celery juice and green juice. Here’s what we do know:

• Drinking juice gives you all the benefits of the fruit: except the fiber. It’s actually even better to eat the whole fruit. So if you’re debating whether to simply eat a grapefruit: go for that instead!
• Avoid juice cleanses. Research associates juice cleanses with disordered eating and a negative relationship with food (read more here).
• Grapefruit is low in calories, but high in nutrients like Vitamin C and Vitamin A. Drinking the juice gives you all the vitamins in this fruit. One grapefruit has 128% of your daily Vitamin C and 56% of your daily Vitamin A (source).
• Grapefruit juice is a good alternative to soda or other sugary drinks. It’s a better choice than drinking the empty calories and sugar in a soda.

Ingredients in grapefruit juice

Drinking straight grapefruit juice squeezed from the citrus fruit can taste intensely sour and bitter. So adding a naturally sweet fruit like apples makes the flavor pop: it brightens it into a refreshing beverage! We like it sweetened with just a hint of honey: it brings out the flavor of the fruits. Here’s what you’ll need to make homemade grapefruit juice:

• Pink grapefruit
• Apples
• Ice
• Cold water
• Salt
• Honey, maple or agave syrup, optional

How to make grapefruit juice (in a blender)

It’s easy to make grapefruit juice in a blender: it comes together quickly! The only part that takes a little time is straining. Here are the main steps:

• Blend all ingredients on high until pureed and smooth. Pureeing it with ice will help to chill it a bit before you drink it.
• Strain! This is the important part. Strain the juice through a medium or fine mesh strainer / sieve or using a nut milk bag (a nut milk bag is faster). Using a medium mesh strainer results in juice with more pulp, which will give you more fiber. A fine mesh sieve makes it perfectly clear. Discard that pulp, or see below for some uses.

What to do with juice pulp

Do you save your juice pulp? In all honesty, we typically throw it away. It feels wasteful to dump all that fiber. But truthfully: there aren’t many genius things to do with it. Here are a few ways we’ve used it:

• Add to smoothies. Save the pulp and add it to smoothies: you can even freeze it to get an icy texture! Try it in a Grapefruit Smoothie.
• Put it in the compost! Really, this organic matter is best in your compost pile. Here’s more about Composting 101.

More grapefruit recipes

There are so many ways to use this tasty citrus fruit! In fact, grapefruit cocktails are one of our favorite ways. Here are some ideas:

• Blend up a Grapefruit Smoothie
• Make a refreshing Grapefruit Salad
• Mix up a grapefruit cocktail, like a Paloma, Greyhound, Grapefruit Margarita, or Grapefruit Shandy
• Try a bubbly Grapefruit Soda

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Grapefruit Smoothie

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Grapefruit Shandy

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Grapefruit Margarita

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Paloma Recipe

This grapefruit juice recipe is…

Vegetarian, vegan, plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free.

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