Although I have my tried-and-true favorite juice combinations, trying something new keeps it interesting. The grocery store had organic bartlett pears on sale for $1.79 a pound, so I thought "why not?" I've never used pears before, and suspected they'd go well with cucumber, ginger and lacinato kale. I did not add my usual lemon because lemon and ginger tend to dominate other flavors. The resulting juice was sweeter of course, but I could distinctly taste the pear and cucumber.
2 small organic bartlett pears (I cut them after taking the photo)*
1 seedless cucumber
3 lacinato ("dinosaur") kale leaves
1 chunk of ginger root (1-inch diameter, 2+ inches long)
* Like apple seeds, pear seeds when crushed or ground and ingested can apparently create trace amounts of cyanide when mixed with stomach acid. Although smaller apples and pears can go into some juicers whole, I don't recommend doing so for this reason.
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