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Materials
- High-Speed Blender
- Knife
- Cutting board
Ingredients
Original Aloe Cooler
- 2 oranges
- 1 cup coconut water
- ¼ Aloe Leaf (about 2 tbsp or 2” of the leaf).
2nd Variation – All ingredients in original +
- 1 cup of parsley
3rd Variation – All ingredients in the original +
- 1-2 cups Strawberries
- 1 cup parsley
4th Variation – All ingredients in the original +
- 2 cups pineapple
- 3 mint leaves
- 1 lime juiced
This is the Aloe – Pineapple – Juice Cooler from the MM Blog linked in the resources section at the end of this article.
Directions
- Cut off 2” of the aloe leave and filet the gel. Here is a video on how to do this.
- Squeeze the juice of two oranges into the blender.
- Add all other ingredients to the blender.
- Add a cup of coconut water.
- Blend and enjoy.
Optional: add some parsley or strawberries for an amazing flavor! Parsley is also very alkalizing.
Another Option: add pineapple to change the flavor some as well. I wouldn’t put the parsley with the pineapple because it doesn’t taste great.
Tips
Make sure to invest in a high-speed blender. When I made this using my Nutribullet, I didn’t like the texture as much because the gel of the aloe didn’t grind down enough and I could feel the chunks of it. If the aloe is mixed well, then you cannot taste it.
Also, If the aloe taste is too bitter, then cut off the end and put a wet paper towel at the end to get some of the reddish/yellowish liquid out stuff out. Let it sit in the fridge with a wet paper towel around the end for a couple hours before or overnight before making this to get the bitter taste out. Once you get used to it more you won’t have to do this step.
I noticed this because the drink would be gross to me the first day I would cut Aloe, but then to store it I found online to put the wet paper towel around the edge and put it in the fridge. One Aloe leaf usually lasts me about a week. The next day, I noticed I enjoyed the drink more.
Now, I use fresh aloe without waiting and it tastes fine to me. Your taste buds change as you eat differently.
This reddish/yellow liquid is called Aloin and has many healing properties, but if you aren’t used to eating Aloe fresh, you may want to try and get some of it out at first.
I found that this liquid was called Aloin from learningherbs.com. You can find more information about what this aloin does on the website listen in more resources at aloveria.com. Finally, Muneeza also has a strategy to make it a little sweeter here also listed in more resources. It is a simple trick to take out the bitterness in aloe.
What Each Ingredient Does
From Life-Changing Foods and the MM Blog
ORANGES
Oranges have a coenzyme, Glutathione, which is activated by its high content of flavonoids and limonoids. These three things fight off viruses, protect the body from radiation damage, and deactivate toxic heavy metals in the system.
Oranges can help regrow teeth due to their bioactive calcium.
The acid in oranges can help dissolve kidney stones and gallstones as well!
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
Orange juice can cut through doom and gloom and bring liquid sunshine into your life! Eat them when feeling sun-deprived in the winter. They will fill you with warmth!
SPIRITUAL SUPPORT
Oranges take a backseat in our diet. We don’t think much of them. In the past, our ancestors would treat the orange like gold because they weren’t always available, especially in the winter. When they were, they usually went to the very wealthy rather than the regular townsperson.
We need to think about what in our lives we have devalued and take a second glance. The orange is readily available during all times of the year. We need to value it again and make it central in our diets to help with many health issues!
Coconut
Coconut water and coconut oil have become more popular in the health field more recently and coconut water was used as IV fluid for wounded soldiers in WWII. Coconut water is very similar to human blood.
The coconut can get in touch with elements of healing foods and amplify them. If you add coconut water to a smoothie with parsley, the coconut water increases the ability of the parsley to alkalize the body by 50%. It also improves its trace mineral salts.
Coconut ignites amino acids, vitamins and other nutrients in food. This helps nourish us to perform our life purpose + some. Coconuts are tropical and need warmth to grow. Humans are tropical creatures in our roots and we also need heat to survive. Therefore, coconut puts us in touch with the essence of our foundations of who we are.
Coconut water can support good sleep because it provides vital glucose and critical mineral salts, including potassium and sodium, to the bloodstream. Glucose and mineral salts are fundamental elements of brain health and support neurotransmitter chemicals we need for sleep.
Coconut water’s trace minerals and electrolytes nourish reproductive tissue which can help with infertility and other disorders involving the reproductive system. Coconut water also helps with blood sugar levels which helps diabetes and hypoglycemia. It can help with any brain neurological disorder like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Coconut meat (and the oil from the meat) is antipathogenic because of the lauric acid content combined with other antioxidants in the coconut. Coconut has the ability to kill any pathogen it touches in the intestinal tract. It also loosens other fats and pushes them out of the body using its medium-chain fatty acids.
Emotional Support
Coconut helps people open emotional channels that allow them to let go of self-addiction where they constantly weigh their own needs against others. Narcissists and self-consumed people who don’t seem to care about others can benefit from opening up to a more empathetic nature.
Spiritual Support
Coconut trees drop their seeds (the coconuts) in storms. They do this because they want to lighten their load even though their seeds are their most precious commodity. They need to lighten the load to endure the storm. They teach us to let go of things that seem really precious to us in hard times and that the sun will always come out again. What matters is that you are OK at the moment.
Tips
Find coconut water free of additives like citric acid, natural flavors, and cane sugar. Steer clear of pink coconut water because this is a sign it is oxidizing and going bad.
If you get a hold of a young green coconut consume it within a couple of days to prevent cleaning up coconut water from the ceiling and walls from the popped coconut if it sits. If you can’t access fresh coconut then get jarred coconut butter, frozen coconut meat or use coconut oil in cooking.
Coconuts can help reduce your fear of open water because they are excellent swimmers! The seed is buoyant and floats in the water until it lands on another shore to root. They can help us with our swimming fears.
If you have trouble sleeping from the full moon due to its subtle gravitational pull, try having some coconut to get those electrolytes and mineral salts that support the brain neurotransmitters.
Aloe Vera
Aloe is well known for its uses outside of the body including sunburn, cuts, bruises, bug bites, and burns. It is much more beneficial to take it internally. It can help cleanse your colon and relieve constipation.
It has over 70 trace minerals that are grouped together with undiscovered medicinal alloys. These make the aloe anti-inflammatory and help rejuvenate and repair parts of the digestive system like the appendix, ileum, and intestinal tract. Healing the ilium can help with b12 production because that is where it is produced.
It is antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-parasitic. This helps eliminate all kinds of digestive cancers. The beta-carotene and lignins in aloe vera also remove radiation from the body.
Emotional Support
Look to aloe for emotional support because it helps you through major transitions like moving or feeling lost. This wild food will help you feel at peace with your surroundings.
Spiritual Support
Aloe has been around since ancient times and most people are unaware of all its uses. When we start to realize what aloe can do for us, we can be inspired to look at the world around us with fresh eyes. This also helps us look into other uses of the things already around us.
Tips
Even if Aloe is grown at home or bought in the grocery store it still maintains its wild food nature. Aloe helps the skin more when taken internally and can help with bags under the eyes and bring back a youthful glow. You can use fresh aloe gel on scratch rashes, tick and flea bites, and hair fur loss on pets.
Parsley
This herb has all the elements of the other aromatic herbs, but it was listed on its own in Life Changing Foods because of its power to alkalize the body. The mineral salts in parsley help make it alkalizing. It can help alkalize all systems in the body rather than just one or two especially if you consume it in your daily routine. These properties help drive our acidity, and diseases such as cancer thrive in an acidic environment.
It is an all-pathogen fighter and can pull out herbicides and pesticides. It has B vitamins including folic acid, traces of B12 coenzymes, and vitamins A, C, and K. it is remineralizing from the trace minerals including magnesium, sulfur, iron, zinc, manganese, molybdenum, chromium, selenium, iodine, and calcium. It can also help the adrenals.
Emotional Support
Parsley can help you balance your state of mind and being. If you feel like people around you or you are on an emotional roller coaster, offer them some parsley.
Spiritual Support
Parsley teaches us to not ignore things that could ultimately help us. People miss out on these health benefits because they don’t like the taste. When people don’t like the taste they tend to stay away from it.
Pineapple
In Liver Rescue we learn that Pineapple dissolves gallstones. It is highly acidic and has many chemical compounds that enter the liver easily. These healing chemical compounds brush the inside of the liver getting rid of the “sticky, mucous-y, debris, gunk, and by-product that can build up inside of the liver from troublemakers” like food and chemicals, heavy metals, and viruses.
Pineapple helps cleanse and detox the entire body. It can also burn fat and tone the stomach.
Tip: If you cannot handle pineapple’s astringency, then only eat the bottom ⅔ of the pineapple.
More Resources & References
- LearningHerbs.com. – tells us that the stuff that can cause a stomach ache is aloin in the aloe leaf.
- aloeveria.com – What aloin does
- Muneeza Blog – Muneeza has another trick to take out the bitterness in aloe.
- Aloe- Pineapple – Juice – Cooler on the MM blog
- Pineapple Smoothie and some info on what it does on the MM Blog
