My answer would be yes to both. Many friends and readers ask me what’s the difference — it’s a valid question and I used to wonder, “Why should I throw away all that fiber?”

Let’s do a quick recap on the difference: green juices are just the juice of greens and fruit.

And green smoothies are vegetables and fruit blended together.

Okay, so here is my honest opinion on the benefits of both for radiant skin and health…

+ Green smoothies have fiber that will help eliminate the toxins. It is a “quick-exit” food or drink (it can be quite a meal!) and since the vegetable cell walls are broken down, your system will digest it easily and transport those nasty toxins that make our skin look sallow and dull or cause acne and skin conditions.

+ Green juices deliver the nutrients immediately to the blood stream because it has no fiber. In this way, your body absorbs all those amazing vitamins and nutrients.

+ Both are an excellent way to incorporate much more fruit and veggies into your diet easily. Who wants to sit around like a gorilla, munching and chewing, all day?!

+ Even if you drink more green juices, you will still be able to eliminate regularly. You can read about it here (just scroll down a bit; this is the blog of a woman who drank green juice for 92 days and still passed solid stools).

+ Some folks prefer juices because it’s not as filling as a smoothie — especially helpful to those who have small stomachs!

+ The slight disadvantage green juices may have over smoothies is if you use a lot of sweet fruit and you have an insulin-related condition, like diabetes. In this case, it’s not advisable to injest so much sugar. But, you can use a lot of lemon or lime to disguise the taste of greens in your juices. I probably wouldn’t advise a veggie and lemon smoothie because it wouldn’t taste very good — not in my book anyway.

+ It’s more expensive to juice, particularly when you use a mechanized juicer because it takes a lot of produce to make one cup. I don’t have fancy equipment in my kitchen, so I make do with blending my veggies and fruit in the blender with water and then I strain the pulp away with a nut milk bag (or if you have a very powerful blender, you can blend without water). So yes, green smoothies make your money’s worth, if you look at it that way.

From personal experience, I drink two green smoothies a day, plus a green juice and my skin has never felt or looked better. I was a pimply teenager and had serious eczema problems. Today, I don’t have to struggle with such skin conditions.

But if you don’t have time for both juicing and making smoothies or your diet just doesn’t have space for it, I would say a green juice in the morning is the better choice for radiant skin. Love the color green, I say!

Note: these are just my personal thoughts and I’m not a licensed medical practitioner.

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