Total Juicing: The Complete Guide to Healthy and Delicious Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juices Book

I picked up Elaine's book in Barnes and Noble in Dec of 2007. While I was still having heaps of fun with my juicer, I was in dire need of some exciting recipes, even as experimenting with countless fruits and vegetables with my own creativity was still fun.

The book is a wonderful resource if you want to know exactly what benefits each fruit, vegetable and herb has and what application is good for it. She also has tons and tons of recipes, some of them seem really odd combinations so I didn't try them and I consider myself a rather adventurous juicer.

One thing though: I'm afraid I did not agree with Elaine's suggestion of having the green juice with a meal or a snack. I would highly recommend AGAINST that advice for the following reasons:

From all my other research, green juices should be drunk in a reasonably empty stomach so that it is absorbed immediately by your cells. No food should be ingested in the next hour at the minimum and if you can go longer, even better. This way the juice can have the best results which is to help your body eliminate waste. If you have nausea or light-headedness, a light cracker can help settle the stomach. Cracker is dry, easy to digest, and soothing for nausea but that's only if you react poorly to the juice which I have rarely experienced.

The very best parts of the book are Chapters 4 and 5.

Chapter 4, Essential Ingredients: She talks about nearly all fruits and vegetables, the benefits of each, whether they juice well, what they mix best with, top nutrition provided, and other related advice
Chapter 5 with the 125+ Recipes: The recipes are good and abundant, covering every fruit and vegetable imaginable. She explains benefits of each juice recipe, best time to consume it, and a word on her specific combination.

A good recipe book to have, light on concepts of a juicing diet or detoxing, and heavy on recipes and benefits of fruits and vegetables listed. The book was published first in 1992 and this is a good indication that little changes on the well-established long-standing benefit of juicing raw fruits and vegetables.