Experience the soothing benefits of this cabbage juice recipe, specifically designed for individuals with ulcers, gastritis and other stomach and gut issues. Learn the benefits of juicing cabbage and harness the natural healing power of cabbage for your gut health with this simple, wholesome cabbage juice recipe.
This recipe is made with a blend of nutrient-rich cabbage, celery, and carrot, enhanced by a touch of apple and mint for taste, delivering a juice packed with health-supporting properties to help your stomach health and ease ulcer pain. Make this cabbage juice recipe 2 different ways: in a blender (without a juicer) or with a cold-press juicer.
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Why Make This Cabbage Juice Recipe
If you’re looking into cabbage juicing recipes or wondering what to mix with cabbage juice in order to make it more beneficial and tastier then keep reading.
Just like in my beet root juice recipe blend, each ingredient in this recipe for cabbage juice has powerful health benefits making it a great source of anti-oxidants and vitamins with the ability to restore the gut lining.
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You can easily prepare cabbage juice at home whether you use a blender or a juicer. And since the cabbage juice has a bland/pungent taste, balancing it with extra vegetable juice like carrot juice, celery and fruit (apple) gives it a better taste / nutritional value.
All these vegetables juices have beneficial properties for ulcers and gastritis (the intestinal lining) and also can help boost immune system in general.
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Why Juicing Cabbage?
Some people have trouble digesting cruciferous vegetables due to lack on enzymes, dysbiosis of the gut microbiota or due to an underlying digestive disorder. Gas and digestive upset are the most common symptoms.
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Therefore consuming the cabbage juice will eliminate the fiber that contributes to these symptoms. Moreover drinking juiced cabbage results in better absorption of nutrients, compared with eating whole cabbage. Plus it’s easier to consume a lot of cabbage in juice form than eating it in a coleslaw salad.
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Ingredients For Cabbage Juice Recipe
- Head of cabbage (small one) – you can use half of a medium cabbage or more. It should consists approximately 60% of the cabbage juice mix. Use green or purple cabbage, they are both great. And know that the heavier the cabbage the more juice it will provide.
- Celery – it should comprise about 20% to 30% of the juice, Celery juice is well known for its gastric mucosal protection and ulcer healing properties.
- Carrots – they should consist about 15% (or maximum 20%) of the total cabbage juice blend. Carrots have ulcer preventive effects and ulcer healing properties as well.
- Apple – optional, but if you add it, make sure it constitutes no more than 10% of the juice, use as taste improver. Other fruits are not suitable for this type of juice.
- Mint leaves – they were also found to have effective activity against gastric ulcers. And I’m using mint here for taste improvement as well. It’s totally optional though. I just had some mint leftovers after making my lemon ginger and cucumber water.
See detailed measurements in the recipe card below.
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How To Make Cabbage Juice For Ulcers
To make cabbage juice, you should use the whole cabbage including the dense middle of the cabbage head. The flavor of cabbage juice is mild with a slight bitterness, so it’s ideal to blend with other vegetable or fruits to improve it’s taste.
Making fresh cabbage juice at home requires a juicer or a blender, which ever you have available.
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How To Make Cabbage Juice With a Blender
You can make this cabbage juice recipe without a juicer, here is how:
For those who don’t want to make a commitment to buying a juicer, you can make cabbage juice with a blender. I use my Ninja blender, because I prefer a glass pitcher not plastic, a nut milk bag and a tall container.
Making Cabbage Juice Without a Juicer
Step 1. Prepare The Ingredients:
- Prepare your ingredients (wash and peel if necessary, cut into smaller chunks, about 1-2 inches);
Step 2. Blend In a Blender:
- Place in a blender and add a touch of water (you don’t need much, pour gradually just enough to help blending) and blend on high for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
- Tip: for easier blending add only half of ingredients with water, and once those are transformed into a liquid paste, you can add the rest and blend again until everything is homogeneous.
Step 3. Strain:
- Strain through a mesh bag / nut milk bag and squeeze as much juice with your hands in a clean container. Don’t use a regular metal strainer you’re going to waste a lot of cabbage juice.
- Discard the pulp, pour into glasses.
Step 4. Consume:
- Drink the juice immediately. Cabbage juice is best consumed within 30 minutes because it starts to lose its nutritional value quickly due to the oxidation process, which can degrade the enzymes, vitamins, and other beneficial compounds present in the juice, making it less effective and altering its flavor.
Juicing Cabbage With A Juicer
The best cabbage juice is made in a masticating juicer, it’s cold pressed (unless you use a centrifugal juicer) and not exposed to metal or heat (which contributes to oxidation).
How to Juice Cabbage In A Juicer
Step 1. Prepare the cabbage and the rest of ingredients:
- Wash well (cabbage, carrots, celery, apple), leave the carrots unpeeled if you’re using organic – the skin contains concentrated vitamin C and niacin. You can peel them if you’re using conventional carrots – the concentration of pesticides is higher in the peel.
- Chop everything to a size that fits the feeder tube.
Step 2. Juicing:
- Begin juicing according to the user’s manual, allowing the slow auger to crush and press the cabbage to extract the juice, collecting it in a container below.
Enjoy the freshly juiced cabbage blend within 30 minutes.
Storing
If you can’t drink it right away, store in a glass airtight bottle in the fridge up to 24 hours.
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Best Cabbage Juicer
The best cabbage juicer is a cold press slow masticating juicer. In the video I’m using a cheap juicer. It yields a good amount of juice and works great with hard veggies. Plus is easy to assemble and clean unlike other juicers with mesh filter which can clog easily. I would say probably better than more expensive juicers like Omega.
Juicing cabbage with a slow masticating juicer produces a higher quality juice in terms of flavor and nutrition when comparing to traditional centrifugal juicers. It uses a slow process of crushing the vegetables and squeezing the juice against a strainer. Juicing a carrot through a masticating juicer produces roughly 30% higher yield than centrifugal juicers plus less foaming and oxidation.
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Cabbage Juice For Ulcer: How It Works
The ulcer healing factor present in cabbage is known as vitamin U (S. methymethionine). It is theorized that this vitamin prevents further acid erosion and peptic digestion of the lining of the gastrointestinal mucosa and the healing is accelerated by the presence of calcium in the cabbage juice as it allows for clotting to occur fast. And Vitamin K, also present in the juice, helps to control the bleeding.
The cabbage also has the potential to influence gut bacterial composition (alter growth of certain bacteria) and help metabolize the glucosinolates (the sulfur-containing component in cabbages) into bioactive components with anti-cancer effects. As the bacterial composition has critical role in maintaining the population and function of intestinal cells it can influence the immune system and it’s homeostasis as well.
Benefits Of Juicing Cabbage
- Anti-inflammatory: cabbage contains significant amounts of glutamine which is an amino acid that has anti-inflammatory properties.
- Skin benefits: great for the treatment of skin inflammation and can be used as a safe alternative to corticosteroids.
- Antioxidant properties: can increase the levels of antioxidant enzymes, leading to protection of the free-radical action.
- Block the growth of cancer cells: due to indole-3-carbinol, a chemical (present in cabbage) which boosts DNA repair cells.
- Prevent and heal acute stomach ulcers and increased the pH value of gastric juice.
- Weight loss: cabbage juice is an ideal part of a weight-loss diet: it’s nutrient dense, low in calories and makes you feel full while preventing cravings.
Cabbage Juicing: Red or Green Cabbage?
- Cabbage in general has a superb nutrient profile and is especially high in vitamins C and K. But unlike green and white cabbage varieties, red cabbage contains anthocyanins, the same red flavonoid pigments (antioxidants) present in red and purple berries.
- Plus purple cabbage has 10 times more vitamin A and double the iron than green cabbage. On the other hand, green cabbage has the advantage when it comes to vitamin K, but they’re both great sources.
- As for the juice taste, when juicing red cabbage you might get a more strong pungent taste and even slightly peppery.
CABBAGE JUICE RECIPE FAQ
You will need a little less than a 1/2 head of cabbage (medium size), about 20-25 ounces.
Yes. Cabbage is a rich source of vitamins C, A and K. Vitamin C begins to denature at temperatures as low as 86 °F so the cabbage juice is best consumed raw for maximum nutrient retention.
Drink the cabbage juice first thing in the morning (that’s when the body is detoxifying and needs nutrients) on an empty stomach (this speeds the absorption) and you can have more portions throughout the day if necessary.
It depends on how serious is your problem, generally you will need to drink 1 cup (8 ounces) of cabbage juice 3 or 4 times a day.
According to researcher Garnett Cheney, in his study, those who drank cabbage juice saw their ulcers heal in an average of 9 days. Comparing to conventional treatment, the ulcers are typically healed in 42 days.
In fact, it is ideal to drink cabbage juice on an empty stomach (at least 30 minutes before or two hours after a meal) the absorption of vitamins and nutrients is the most effective.
When a cabbage is juiced, your body is able to process and absorb the most nutrients quickly and in higher quantity. And when you add a little fat (vitamin A and C are fat soluble) you can increase the vitamin absorption. Fats you can consume with cabbage juice (or after) are: oils, avocado, egg, nuts (butter or milk), fish oil capsules etc. Moreover adding some juice from fermented cabbage (sauerkraut) will enhance your fresh cabbage juice with probiotics.
Drink the freshly juiced cabbage within 15-30 minutes for maximum benefit (especially if it was made in a blender). Once the vegetables are chopped, the enzymes are activated and oxidation causes rapid nutrient loss. If the cabbage juice was made with a slow juicer and stored in an airtight jar (right away) in the fridge, then it should still be good in the next 24 hours.
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Printable Recipe
Best Cabbage Juice For Ulcers – Cabbage Juicing With Blender & Juicer
Ingredients
- ½ head of medium cabbage - green or red cabbage (use the core as well).
- 2-3 large celery stalks
- 2 medium carrots
- 1 medium apple - optional to improve taste
- 3-4 stems of fresh mint - optional to improve taste
Instructions
How To Make Cabbage Juice With a Blender
- Prepare your ingredients (wash and peel if necessary, cut into smaller chunks, about 1 inch);
- Mix: place in a blender and add a touch of water (you don’t need much, pour gradually just enough to help blending) and blend on high for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Tip: for easier blending add only half of ingredients with water, and once those are transformed into a liquid paste, you can add the rest and blend again until everything is homogeneous.
- Strain through a mesh bag / nut milk bag and squeeze as much juice with your hands in a clean container. Don’t use a regular metal strainer you’re going to waste a lot of cabbage juice. Discard the pulp.
- Drink the juice immediately, or within 30 minutes.
Juicing Cabbage With A Juicer
- Prepare the cabbage and the rest of ingredients: wash well (cabbage, carrots, celery, apple), leave the carrots unpeeled if you’re using organic – the skin contains concentrated vitamin C and niacin. You can peel them if you’re using conventional carrots – the concentration of pesticides is higher in the peel.
- Chop everything to a size that fits your masticating juicer and begin juicing according to the user’s manual.
- Enjoy the freshly juiced cabbage blend within 30 minutes. If you can’t drink it right away, store in a glass airtight bottle in the fridge up to 24 hours.
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Notes
Questions & Tips For Cabbage Juice Making
- Best Juicer For Cabbage – a cold press slow masticating juicer. I’m using a cheap masticating juicer. – it produces a higher quality juice in terms of flavor and nutrition and roughly 30% higher yield than centrifugal juicers plus less foaming and oxidation.
- How much cabbage do you need to juice to get 8 ounces / 1 cup of fresh cabbage juice? You will need a little less than a 1/2 head of cabbage (medium size), about 20-25 ounces.
- Best time to drink cabbage juice: What is the best time to drink cabbage juice? Drink the cabbage juice first thing in the morning (that’s when the body is detoxifying and needs nutrients) on an empty stomach (this speeds the absorption) and you can have more portions throughout the day if necessary.
- How much cabbage juice a day you need for healing ulcers? Generally you will need to drink 1 cup (8 ounces) of cabbage juice 3 or 4 times a day.
- How long does it take cabbage juice to heal an ulcer? According to researcher Garnett Cheney, in his study, those who drank cabbage juice saw their ulcers heal in an average of 9 days.
- Cabbage juice storage: Drink it within 15-30 minutes for maximum benefit (especially if it was made in a blender). If the cabbage juice was made with a juicer and stored in an airtight jar (right away) in the fridge, then it should still be good in the next 24 hours.
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Ngozi
Thursday 14th of November 2024
Thanks so much for this. Please what is the name of a good cheap juicer for cabbage? Please recommend for me.I'm in Nigeria.Thanks so much.
Olga Caz
Tuesday 17th of December 2024
Unfortunatelly every country has its own market and I'm not familiar with one in Nigeria.
sabrina
Friday 27th of September 2024
i'm so happy that I found this recipe
Todd Laviolette
Monday 26th of August 2024
What would be the best apples to use ?
HealthyTasteOfLife
Friday 13th of September 2024
It depends on your taste and how much sugar from apple (especially the sweet ones) you want in your juice.
Emmy samako
Friday 8th of December 2023
Hello there thank you sooo much for a detailed help, I’m new to ulcer through h,pylori. So I’m just looking for ways, to be well. You mentioned that best consumed within 30 minutes, does this mean I can’t blend and store in the fridge please, and should this be taken morning and night please!
Olga Caz
Sunday 10th of November 2024
Storing for longer time, usually after 30 minutes the vitamins and mineral content reduces considerably.
Rosa Vargas
Monday 16th of October 2023
How soon can a person eat breakfast after drinking the cabbage juice
HealthyTasteOfLife
Sunday 5th of November 2023
Usually in 30 minutes