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Make Your Own Watermelon Juice & Enjoy These 7 Health Benefits

Make Your Own Watermelon Juice & Enjoy These 7 Health Benefits

Last updated on April 7, 2018 By Adam Nolan Leave a Comment

Watermelon is the fruit of the earth with thick green skin bursting with luscious red fruit inside and black seeds. It comes packed with tons of water, antioxidants, vitamins A and C and nutrients. Watermelon juice is an refreshing snack for warm summer days although it isn’t strictly reserved for that purpose and can be easily added to your diet year round for a quick health boost.

How To Make Your Own Watermelon Juice Drink

Start by washing and cutting your watermelon into several pieces, carefully remove the black seeds (smaller white seeds can be retained and juiced). Remove the fruit pulp from the rind and add to a blender or juicer.

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Alternatively retain the rind but clean it thoroughly with vinegar and slicing it as thinly as possible before juicing. The rind holds a lot of vitamins and nutrients you’ll lose by throwing it away, just make sure your juicer or blender can handle the extra work. Ice is optional then blend/juice till smooth and easily drinkable.

7 Health Benefits of Watermelon Juice

Watermelon juices itself comes packed with endless health benefits, we’ll begin by listing a few here:

1. Keeps You Hydrated

The first big benefit to watermelon juice is hydration, water is a basic human need. Watermelons contain over 90% water which means they’re super hydrating. It’s recommended that the average adult drink approximately 8 glasses of water a day directly or indirectly through food and watermelon juice can help you towards that target.

2. Helps With Weight Loss

Another cool pro to drinking watermelon juice is weight loss. It’s composed mostly of water so therefore hardly any calories and fat content. Two quick ways to lose weight with watermelon juice is substituting it for sugary drinks like cola and not adding sugar at the juicing stage. Swapping out calorie heavy sodas like this will help lower your calorie intake throughout the day.

3. Cleanses Your Kidneys and Bladder

Not only that but watermelon juice is beneficial for your cleansing your kidney and bladder. As mentioned above you can retain the smaller white seeds during the juicing process and in this instance they are known for benefiting the kidney. When minerals and acid begin building up in your body kidney stones become a massive problem, this intensifies when you’re not drinking enough water to flush both mineral and acid out of your system and uric acid starts to build. Watermelons help as they contain massive amounts of water to prevent the initial buildup, flush out kidney stones and regulate urine flow.

4. It Prevents Some Cancers

One of the biggest highlights is that watermelons contain natural anti-oxidants which fight off and prevent skin cancers thanks to the lycopene contained in the red pulpy portion of the fruit. It’s already used to as a remedy alongside cucumber to sooth sunburn but here prevention is better than cure as the anti-oxidant can help protect against harmful UV rays beforehand. (source, source)

5. It Improves Your Cardiovascular Health

As if the potential cancer-preventing benefit isn’t awesome enough, you can also potentially improve your cardiovascular health with watermelon juice. (source) This is because watermelon is packed with something called citrulline, which is an amino acid that is converted to arginine by the body. And, arginine relaxes your blood vessels and improves blood flow in the body.

6. It Helps With Impotence

If you’re a guy having a little trouble in the bedroom, then you will definitely want to drink up. As a result of the citrulline mentioned above, watermelon has earned a reputation as “nature’s Viagra.” (source)

7. It Soothes Muscle Aches

If you work out a lot, then watermelon juice can help you recover by soothing those sore muscles. Again, it’s that superhero amino acid citrulline that gives watermelon it’s muscle soothing properties. (source) You probably already know how bad inflammation is for your health, but you might not know that watermelon juice can help your inflammation as a result of those same properties that sooth sore muscles. (source)

The best way to take advantage of the benefits mentioned in this article is drinking a glass each morning as part of a healthy diet!

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