Winter has come. You wake up freezing cold. You want something nutritious and warm. But you also want your daily green juice. However, just thinking about having a cold drink with a cold body makes you shiver. And now?

As you know, I'm a big fan of green juice, and after spending a few winters in cold Curitiba, I developed some techniques to adapt green juice to lower temperatures.

Here are seven ways to “warm up” your green juice and continue to benefit from this infusion of phytonutrients, antioxidants, chlorophyll and magnesium this season:

1. Warm up your body and digestive system by starting the day with a glass of hot water with freshly squeezed lemon juice and a pinch of cardamom or cinnamon. Then follow with your green juice, preferably served at room temperature.

2. Replace cucumber with celery (celery) in your green juice. Cucumber is a summer vegetable and according to macrobiotics, it is ideal to eat seasonal food. Celery has a long shelf life and withstands cooler temperatures, being suitable for this season. Other seasonal vegetables are: kale, spinach, chard, fennel. One of my favorite winter green juice recipes is:

2 celery stalks

1 apple

1/2 cup of fennel

1 cabbage leaf

1/2 lemon juice

3. Add hot spices – ginger, pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, turmeric, cloves and cayenne pepper. These spices help to increase the body's thermogenic potential. Try this recipe:

1/2 pear

1/2 cup of strawberries

Pinch of cinnamon powder

Pinch of cayenne pepper

1 cardamom seed

1 cup coconut water

1 cup of spinach

2 celery stalks

1/2 avocado

4. Choose to make the juice in a blender if you normally use a Juicer (or try not to strain) as the mixture is more consistent and nutritious and the fibers can be chewed.

5. Further enrich your juice by adding coconut oil, avocado or chia. In winter, our bodies need and ask for more fatty foods and meals. Adding healthy fats to your juice will boost the nutritional value and warm your system.

Here's a recipe I like:

1/2 avocado

1 banana

1 tablespoon of coconut oil

1 1/2 cup coconut milk

spinach handful

Pinch of Cinnamon

1/2 lemon juice

6. You may want to skip the vegetables and make a juice with only the roots of the season. Carrots and beets are good choices and ginger should always be present! Try this delicious recipe:

2 carrots

2 cm ginger

2 orange juice

1 cup of water

1 tablespoon of chia

I hope this post helps you stay nourished through the winter!

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