Celery and Carrot Juice: Benefits and How to Make It

Why Celery and Carrot Work Together

Pure celery juice is savoury and green, which not everyone loves first thing. Carrot fixes that. It's naturally sweet and earthy, so a little goes a long way toward making celery juice easy to drink without reaching for fruit. It's one of the oldest juice pairings there is and for good reason: the two balance each other into a glass that tastes rounded rather than sharp. If celery juice is new to you, there's background in what is celery juice.

What's in the Glass

Between them they cover savoury and sweet and each brings something different to the glass:

Ingredient	What it brings
Celery	Hydration, a savoury base, vitamin K, potassium and plant compounds
Carrot	Natural sweetness and beta-carotene, which the body converts to vitamin A
Together	A rounded, easy-drinking glass, savoury balanced by sweet

Carrots are a well-known source of beta-carotene, the compound behind their colour, which the body converts into vitamin A. It's genuinely one of the reasons carrot juice has such a long history. The one thing to keep an eye on is sugar: carrot is sweeter and higher in natural sugar than celery, so the ratio matters if you want to keep the glass light. Do your own reading and form your own view.

How to Make Celery and Carrot Juice

Lead with celery and use carrot to sweeten, rather than the other way round and you get the balance right while keeping the sugar down. A good starting point is a whole head of celery to one or two carrots.

Step	What to do
1	Wash a head of celery and one or two carrots, no need to peel
2	Juice both, or blend with a splash of water and strain
3	Add lemon or a little ginger if you like, stir and drink fresh

More carrot makes it sweeter, more celery keeps it green and lighter. A squeeze of lemon or a chunk of ginger lifts the whole thing. The full method for a juicer or a blender is in how to make celery juice.

A Note on Sugar

Carrot juice is naturally sweeter than celery, which is exactly why it makes celery easier to drink, but it does bring more natural sugar with it. That's fine in a balanced glass, just keep carrot as the smaller partner if a low-sugar drink is what you're after. If you want the lowest-sugar option of all, pure celery is the one, with carrot as an occasional sweetener rather than an equal half.

When It's at Its Best

The sweetness makes this an easy morning glass, gentler than pure celery for anyone easing in and it works just as well as a mid-afternoon pick-me-up in place of a snack. As always, drink it fresh, soon after making it, before it loses its brightness.

Ready-Pressed Celery Juice

If pressing your own is a faff, we cold-press ours, add nothing and freeze it fresh, delivered across the UK:

The Bottom Line

Celery and carrot is a classic pairing because carrot's natural sweetness rounds off celery's savoury edge into an easy, drinkable glass. Lead with celery and use carrot to sweeten, keep an eye on the ratio if you want it low in sugar and drink it fresh. It's one of the gentlest ways into celery juice and an easy everyday glass.

More pairings in celery and cucumber juice, or head to the carrot hub for more on carrot juice.

Where to Start

Browse all of it in the celery juice shop, or go straight to Daily Celery Juice, Celery Twist or the 7-Day Celery Cleanse.

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