Can You Add Honey to Celery Juice?

 

Celery juice is sort of plain if you juice it alone. That’s the reason why most people like to juice celery juice with something else such  as apples or carrots.

And who doesn’t like the taste of honey? Well, when you think about it, it does make sense to consider mixing honey with green juices that are celery heavy since it can make them taste better.

But can you add honey to celery juice without ruining the flavor or consistency? That’s what we’re going to discuss below.

Does Honey and Celery Juice Mix Well?

Not really. But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean you can’t add honey to your celery juice. Because you can. And the flavors do mix well, which is important.

For instance, I would not suggest mixing honey with cabbage juice. Nah, that’s not a good taste. Even red cabbage juice isn’t a good mix with honey.

Honey is sweet, and therefore it is going to improve the flavor of your celery juice. So, don’t worry about that. However, it’s also thick whereas celery juice is thin by nature. So, how does it mix?

The flavor of honey is a nice complement to celery. It’s important to  remember if you’ve never had celery juice that the flavor of plain celery is not very strong.

Is Honey Healthy For You and Why Add It To Your Juice?

First of, let’s just get this out of the way. Honey, real honey, is super healthy for you. Every study published has basically said as much. Here’s just one major one that covers how healthy honey is.

While most people tend to like to eat honey and add honey to their food because it tastes good, there are a ton of health benefits associated with it.

Honey is full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and it’s also a powerful source of healthy enzymes.

For those reasons, it’s a perfect addition to foods. It provides natural sugars and healthy energy, which means it’s great for a morning or preworkout juice or smoothie.

So, if you are making a juice in the morning and want to give it a boost when it comes to the energy as well as flavor, then honey works perfect.

If you’re making a sour juice, something like lemon and celery, but don’t particularly like the sour flavor in a juice in the morning, then adding honey is a great way to make the drink more palatable.

Also, you might want to add honey to your juice if you’re looking to add some essential minerals and enzymes. Honey is rich in nutrients, it’s basically a superfood. That’s why honey is more popular than something like maple syrup in the health community. When you add honey to a juice you are getting a lot of b vitamins.

What Type of Honey Should You Add to Green Juices Like Celery?

First off, lets understand how you should add honey to celery juice…or any juice for that matter. You don’t juice honey or juice honeycomb. It’s a different process to extract honey from honeycomb and it doesn’t require juicing.

What you will do is take the raw honey (in liquid form, not creamed) and add it to the glass before you add the juice. Then stir it in using a spoon. That’s the simplest method. There is no reason to put the honey into the juicer as it will only get sticky on the juicers auger.

While I am a big fan of creamed honey, it’s not something that I suggest using in celery juice or any juice for that matter. Creamed honey is thick, almost like a peanut butter texture. So you can see how it’s not the right type of honey for celery juice.

Instead, what I would use is a regular liquid type of honey. The reason behind using a liquid honey in your juice is that it just blends easier.

And while we are discussing honey and how to use it in juice, let’s be clear about the type of liquid honey we should be using. It should be liquid honey, correct. But it also needs to be a raw liquid honey.

You don’t want to get anything that is called a honey product, because that is basically not a real honey. Also, you do not want to buy a non-organic honey, or a non-raw honey. Raw honey is really the only type of honey that I use.

The benefits that come with eating and adding honey to beverages are all basically gone when you cook the honey and process it. That’s why you should always choose something that is raw.

Also, cooked honey has a slightly different flavor, which isn’t as pleasant and flavorful as raw honey.

Finally, don’t be concerned about raw honey being unhealthy. It’s not (except for babies, and that’s all honey not just raw honey). Raw honey is safe. In fact, raw honey has been used for thousands of years by cultures around the globe not just as a food product, but also as a health remedy.

Will Honey Settle to the Bottom of Celery Juice?

Yes, honey will settle to the bottom of the juice if you let it sit for too long. That’s why I always say that you should drink your juice as soon as it’s made.

After all, what you are getting when you make fresh choice is vastly superior to anything that you can buy in the supermarket or even those “store brought fresh” juices that you see all over the place.

So, my suggestion is to add the honey to the celery juice as soon as you’ve made it. And don’t let the juice sit around. Not only will the honey sink to the bottom, the juice itself will begin to separate. The reason that store brought juices don’t separate is that they are blended with emulsifiers and additives and the natural enzymes and fibers are all removed.

If you do happen to make a large celery juice and want to take it to work with you, then be mindful to bring something to shake it up in (like a good blender bottle–or glass bottle) and also have a stirring spoon handy.

While I tend to not suggest that you keep fresh juice too long, it’s especially important to not keep fresh juicer that you combine with honey too long. The reason being that honey settles to the bottom, plus if you do intent on keeping your juice in a container, the honey can stick to the sides if you need to shake it several times.

So, the key point here is to just make sure to drink your fresh green celery juice with honey as soon as you make it.

Is Honey and Celery Juice Too Sweet?

I personally don’t find celery juice very sweet at all. In fact, I find that you really do need to add something to a celery juice such as lemons to give it a tartness, or else something like pineapple or honey to give it a sweetness.

Honey is sweet, but celery juice isn’t. So the juice won’t really be overly sweet. In fact, if you add only a small amount of honey you might find that it’s not enough and have to add more.

I find that is the case with people who add the same amount of honey that they add to their coffee or tea. In most cases the juice is going to require more honey than something like tea. However, don’t overdo it and add too much honey or you’re going to ruin the flavor.

Too much honey can make things too sweet. Remember, you’re goal is not to make a super sweet honey drink. You’re goal is to add a healthy raw honey to a celery juice and thereby make the celery juice both healthier as well as make it taste better.

Also, honey doesn’t necessarily have to turn a juice into something super sweet. If you are modest with the amount of honey that you add to your drink, then you can simply turn it from a bland tasting drink into something much better.

Adding Lemon Juice with the Honey?

Here’s where I think you can really boost the flavor of a celery drink and turn it from a honey and celery juice and transform it into something much better.

My personal favorite addition to a honey and celery juice is a nice organic lemon. And as I’ve covered before on this blog, you can juice a lemon without peeling it. In fact, when you peel the skin of an organic lemon you’re getting a lot of the healthy nutrients that most people miss out on.

The most flavorful component of the lemon is in the lemon skin, the essential oil. This is where you get not only lemon essential oil, which is very healthy and a powerful antibacterial, but all of the strong flavor.

The important aspect of juicing a lemon with honey and celery is that you’re going to want to make sure you use an organic lemon. And that’s not just some statement that you hear all the time about how “organic’s the only way”. I don’t say that.

Organic does tend to be better, but listen, if you don’t have a lot of money to spend on fruits and vegetables, it’s not essential that you always buy organic. Some fruits don’t need to be organic, but some you really should get organic: berries, for instance.

The reason that I advocate that you use an organic lemon when juicing is that you want to juice not just the inside of the lemon, but you also want to juice the lemon skin. And it’s better to make sure you get an organic lemon so that you don’t have to worry about the pesticides that are sprayed on fruit to protect it from insects.

 

What Kind Of Juicer Should You Use With Celery and Honey?

As we’ve said before, we don’t actually process honey though a juicer. It’s just not something we do. It would waste the honey and also would create a big mess. If you put honey though the juicer, it will mostly stick to the auger juicer and won’t get into the drink that you’re looking to make.

The key point that you need to read is that you never, ever want to use a regular juicer when juicing celery. That’s because those typical juicers simply don’t extract enough juice from the celery.

The type of juicers you want to get is a masticating juicer. These are better to use because they juice hard vegetables and celery better than regular juicers. 

When you get a masticating juicer they are able to not only handle celery and lemons (lemons, by the way also require a masticating juicer if you want to juice their skin). A masticating juicer will also process carrots and kale and appples.