From: Juicing For Health “5 Must Have Juice Recipes” Recipes” /?hop=homebound Beets Beets have been used as medicine and nutrition going back to ancient Greek and Roman times. The greens from beets can be used in your recipes and contains many important minerals. Try juicing both with and without the greens to see which taste you prefer. It is important to get the proportions correct with some vegetables and most juicing experts recommend keeping a 1:4 ratio of beets other vegetables. For example 1 beet for every 4 carrots, 1/4 beet for every carrot. The following recipe keeps this proportion. It also contains cucumber which is very cooling and refreshing when juice solo or in combination with other vegetables. Long used as a treatment for eyes in solid form the juice is said to be very good for your skin.