Recipes for Detox Diet

A detox or a cleanser diet is the current health trend. The purpose of a detox diet is to rid your body of all the unhealthy substances, more commonly know as toxins. You can give your body a healthy, fresh and absolutely toxin-free start anytime. Add green leafy vegetables, fruits, lemon, watercress, sesame seeds, green tea and other food items that are high in fiber and rich in nutrients, to your diet. By adopting such dietary habits, you would receive three terrific benefits. These are - foods that stimulate cleansing enzymes in the liver, fiber to keep the gastrointestinal tract fit, pouring in of nutrients, and, the most important thing, flushing out of toxins.

Recipes for detox diet are amazing. They are easy, take little time to make, and are filling. There is also a psychological advantage in doing something to keep your body fit and healthy, you get a feeling of satisfaction. If you are someone who knows all the benefits of a detox diet but still thinks that it is boring and tasteless, you are requested to first try out some recipes, and then make a judgment. Following are some of the recipes for detox diets.

Healing Detox Soup: This soup gives your energy levels a boost and revitalizes you. The main ingredients are avocado and cucumber. Avocado is high in essential fatty acids and cucumber has cleansing properties. You can give this recipe a sizzling taste by adding the desired herbs and spices.

Ingredients:

1 cucumber
1 avocado
1 green pepper
1 ½ handfuls of spinach
1 ½ cloves of garlic
1 ½ spring onions
Soya sauce to taste
Juice of ½ lemon or lime

Method: Blend the avocado to paste. Add all other ingredients to it and blend again.

Alkalizing Tomato Corn Soup: A subtle soup that packs a nutritional punch. It gives you a filling and comforting feeling. You can have it either warm or cold.

Ingredients:

5 sun dried tomatoes
3 large tomatoes
2 fresh basil leaves
1 cup fresh corn
½ tablespoon minced garlic

Method: Grind all the ingredients except corn in a blender. Blend until it achieves a creamy consistency. Add corn and enjoy.

Vegetable Detox Soup: You would love having this one in winters. The combination of vegetables is a good source of antioxidants. The cleansing properties come from the celery. This is definitely a delight for those who are new to a detox diet.

Ingredients:

2 cups shredded vegetables
2 cups of water
½ tablespoon chopped garlic
½ tablespoon chopped celery
1 tablespoon chopped onion
1 ½ cup milk
Salt and black pepper to taste

Method: Combine the vegetables, garlic, celery, onion, water and salt in a soup pot. Simmer till all the ingredients are tender. It would take maximum 20 minutes. Add milk and water. Keep stirring at low heat till it begins to boil. Turn off the heat. Add black pepper to taste.

Super Detox Sesame Salad: This salad has spinach as its main ingredient. Spinach has great nutritional value (a rich source of vitamin A), and fiber content. You may find the taste a bit wild, but needless to say, it's worth eating it.

Ingredients:
1 minced clove of garlic
1 lb. mixture of spinach and watercress
1 green pepper
1 tablespoon sesame seeds for garnishing
Salt to taste

Method: Blend all the ingredients and add salt to taste.

Nowadays, nutritionists and dietitians have glamorized the detox diet. There are many variants of the detox diet like the summer detox diet (a diet that comprises natural foods that are in abundance in the summer), fast track detox diet (a diet plan that is supposed to last only for a few days), lemon detox diet (the main ingredient of this diet is lemon or its juice), and many more.

Lemon detox diet recipes are getting popular because they give short-term weight loss benefits along with detoxification. They involve water, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, salt, and herbal tea. All these ingredients are known to release toxins from the body. Lemon juice, in particular, flushes toxins from the body through the blood stream, thereby not straining the digestive system much; cayenne pepper enhances the rate of metabolism, and salt and herbal tea stimulate bowl movement (a way to detoxify the body). Water keeps the body hydrated, and increases the rate of metabolism, which is why it is the best beverage for detoxification.

Recipes for detox diet mainly involve vegetables and fruits which you generally have at home. You can always mix such items in a number of combinations depending upon your taste and mood. Try them out and you yourself would destroy the myth that the raw foods that make up a large part of the detox diet are cold and unwelcoming.