Joe Cross and Phil Staples Mean Green Juice Recipe Fast

Mean Green Juice

This is the "Mean Green" Juice drink recipe used in their Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead movie, sometimes called the Joe Cross diet or the Joe Cross recipe.  During the filming of the documentary movie Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, overweight Joe Cross and Phil Staples ate a diet mix of vegetables and fruits made into juice by his Breville juicer, commonly called juicing.  The nutritional value benefits of this green juice drink recipes is below.

Remember the veggie purchase by Joe Cross at the pickup truck on the side of the road at the beginning of the Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead movie?  Joe bought onions, tomatoes and celery for his raw juice recipes and his 60 day juice fast.  We assume these vegetables to be organic, but this is not required. You can also see carrots though out the movie as he juices his way across the USA to lose weight. Joe Cross also consumed various fruit and juice drinks.

If your looking to juicing for cleansing or just to reduce weight, this juice recipe works very well and gives your body most of what it needs to get healthier while enjoying the benefits of juicing.

TIPS: Don't rush out and buy multiple pounds of every vegetable. Peeling the lemon takes away some of the bitterness in the juice. Kale has a strong taste, try 60g to start with. If the taste to you is awful, use romaine lettuce instead of the kale. More tips on juicing and start up can be found HERE.

Phil and Joe 2013

There are many raw green juice or "Joe Cross juice cleanse recipes" available on the web.  Is this the best green juice recipe? That is up to you to decide. A bit of this and a bit of that, and you can make a green juice that you can enjoy in any juice cleanse or diet. You can also go to a juice bar and try many different juicing recipes.  "Jamba Juice" is a well known place with many healthy drinks to try, although many are heavy with fruit. Wheat grass is another popular juice with juicers. Let me know what recipes you come up with by posting in the comments section. 


Mean Green Juice nutrition facts and nutritional information
Joe's organic mean green juice recipe has no Vitamin D or B12 (see info below), this is the reason why you should not consume this raw food vegetable juice drink as your only meal. If you make this vegetable juice as your only meal, you should be taking a vitamin supplement.  Australian Joe Cross, has since added spinach to this juicing recipe as seen in the video below.  Time marches on.  

6 Kale leaves (113g)

4 celery stalks (136g)

1 cucumber (301g)

2 apples, green (granny smith) (364g)

1/2 of a lemon (29g)

lump of Ginger (11g)

Here's the approximate nutrient values for the above recipe (not per "juice") as listed, based on the USDA charts. This Joe Cross juice he called mean green, supplied a steady stream of nutrients for his body.  To compute your daily vitamin/mineral intake, multiply the values given times the number of recipes you consume per day, compare this against your juicing goals.

Nutritional value information of Mean Green

Water	g	1015.247
Energy	kcal	356.300
Energy	kJ	1497.600
Protein	g	9.228
Total lipid (fat)	g	2.422
Ash	g	5.994
Carbohydrate, by difference	g	86.103
Fiber, total dietary	g	XXXX
Sugars, total	g	49.267
Sucrose	g	7.956
Glucose (dextrose)	g	12.788
Fructose	g	25.630
Lactose	g	0.000
Maltose	g	0.030
Galactose	g	1.987
Starch	g	2.680
Minerals
Calcium, Ca	mg	352.250
Iron, Fe	mg	4.043
Magnesium, Mg	mg	135.910
Phosphorus, P	mg	256.180
Potassium, K	mg	2205.330
Sodium, Na	mg	301.060
Zinc, Zn	mg	1.691
Copper, Cu	mg	0.690
Manganese, Mn	mg	1.584
Fluoride, F	µg	27.965
Selenium, Se	µg	3.317
Vitamins
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid	mg	186.023
Thiamin	mg	0.345
Riboflavin	mg	0.522
Niacin	mg	2.831
Pantothenic acid	mg	1.922
Vitamin B-6	mg	0.839
Folate, total	µg	177.520
Folic acid	µg	0.000
Folate, food	µg	177.520
Folate, DFE	mcg_DFE	177.520
Choline, total	mg	53.444
Betaine	mg	0.966
Vitamin B-12	µg	0.000
Vitamin B-12, added	µg	0.000
Vitamin A, RAE	mcg_RAE	961.450
Retinol	µg	0.000
Carotene, beta	µg	11472.680
Carotene, alpha	µg	33.400
Cryptoxanthin, beta	µg	124.100
Vitamin A, IU	IU	19245.360
Lycopene	µg	0.000
Lutein + zeaxanthin	µg	45721.310
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)	mg	1.630
Vitamin E, added	mg	0.000
Tocopherol, beta	mg	0.030
Tocopherol, gamma	mg	0.090
Tocopherol, delta	mg	0.000
Vitamin D (D2 + D3)	µg	0.000
Vitamin D	IU	0.000
Vitamin K (phylloquinone)	µg	1068.786
Dihydrophylloquinone	µg	0.000
Lipids
Fatty acids, total saturated	g	0.476
4:00	g	0.000
6:00	g	0.000
8:00	g	0.001
10:00	g	0.000
12:00	g	0.007
14:00	g	0.027
15:00	g	0.000
16:00	g	0.392
17:00	g	0.000
18:00	g	0.045
20:00	g	0.000
22:00	g	0.000
24:00:00	g	0.000
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated	g	0.216
14:1	g	0.000
15:1	g	0.000
16:1 undifferentiated	g	0.007
17:1	g	0.000
18:1 undifferentiated	g	0.205
20:1	g	0.001
22:1 undifferentiated	g	0.000
20:2 n-6 c,c (Eicosadienoic acid)	g	0.000
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated	g	0.944
18:2 undifferentiated (Linoleic acid)	g	0.666
18:3 undifferentiated (Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA))	g	0.262
18:3 n-6 c,c,c		0.000
18:4 (Parinaric acid)	g	0.000
20:3 undifferentiated (Podocarpic acid)	g	0.000
20:4 undifferentiated (Arachidonic acid (AA))	g	0.002
20:5 n-3 (EPA)	g	0.000
22:5 n-3 (DPA)	g	0.000
22:6 n-3 (DHA)	g	0.000
Cholesterol	mg	0.000
Phytosterols	mg	105.530
Amino acids		0.000
Tryptophan	g	0.092
Threonine	g	0.309
Isoleucine	g	0.376
Leucine	g	0.500
Lysine	g	0.441
Methionine	g	0.074
Cystine	g	0.078
Phenylalanine	g	0.335
Tyrosine	g	0.198
Valine	g	0.404
Arginine	g	0.427
Histidine	g	0.166
Alanine	g	0.373
Aspartic acid	g	1.087
Glutamic acid	g	1.392
Glycine	g	0.353
Proline	g	0.347
Serine	g	0.319
Other
Alcohol, ethyl	g	0.000
Caffeine	mg	0.000
Theobromine	mg	0.000

You should note the areas in red above, they indicate a short fall that requires supplementation. We store between 2 and 5 milligrams of vitamin B12 and only excrete a very small fraction of B12 each day. Nevertheless, over time, vitamin B12 deficiency can develop if stores are not replenished with vitamin B12 from the diet or from supplements. Although bacteria in the large intestine of humans do produce vitamin B12, this intestinal vitamin B12 does not appear to be absorbed and is not adequate to prevent a vitamin B12 deficiency. 

Vegans should use a vitamin B12 supplement, either as a single supplement or in a multivitamin should use supplements regularly. Even though a supplement may contain many times the recommended intake level of vitamin B12, when vitamin B12 intake is high, not as much appears to be absorbed. This means in order to meet your needs, you should take a daily vitamin B12 supplement routinely.

Many adults obtain adequate vitamin D if they regularly spend time outdoors in spring, summer and autumn (winter needs to be supplemented) with body exposure. A dietary intake of vitamin D in the winter can be ensured by eating fortified foods or taking supplements. In northern latitudes vegan women who are breast feeding should ensure their intake during winter by using fortified foods or taking supplements. 


Please take a moment and let me know your thoughts on juicing and your diet goals. Related search terms used by many include, juice cleanse, raw foods and juice fast.