I hated the carrot juice I made last weekend. It wasn’t really carrot juice tbh, but carrot juice just seems to have a tendency to overpower all the nice flavors trying to live in harmony with it, like a 16th century European. I love raw carrots but for me, the juice is just…ugh. The juice was made with apple, pear, tangerine, celery and carrot. And I hated it.
No other flavors, I'm clearly carrot concentrate.
Then, while making my Delicious Bacon Soup™ I peeled two pomegranates and juiced the seeds. By adding the juice, and some water, to the carrot juice, I was able to cut its nastiness pretty well.
I started with 25cl (it’s a belgian beer glass…so the measurements are metric) of cold, filtered water, then added a little bit of the pomegranate juice…
…and topped it off to about 1/2L with the carrot abomination.
It actually ended up being tasty and clean. I used to cut store-bought juices with water too, because of the syrupy taste a lot of them had. After deciding the taste was endurable, I added the pomegranate juice (not even 1c for 2 pomegranates! I’m trying a different juicing method next time) to the jar of carrot juice.
Much prettier.
It did settle and get a little cloudy, but still tasted acceptable – even past its effective period of deliciousness (usually less than one day).
BONUS
I reserved a little bit of the pomegranate juice and added it to my ACV hair rinse. I think this may have been the trick – my hair no longer feels like a greaseball the day after showering, and the following day (today) it definitely feels softer than normal. The hair closest to my scalp feels completely clean and soft, the ends are not as dry, and the middle is still kind of oily feeling – but I suspect this is from tying my wet hair up in a bun all day after showering.
Despite the slight struggle with my hair adjusting, I have yet to even consider going back to using chemical shampoo on my hair.
