Celery Juice: Benefits, How to Make It & How Much to Drink

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Celery juice is a bright green drink pressed from fresh celery stalks, about 95% water, with celery's potassium, natural sodium, vitamin K and plant compounds dissolved in it.162 I count celery, and especially celery juice, among the unique anti-inflammatory foods, and I consider spring and early summer the best time of year to drink it.105

In my High Blood Pressure Protocol, I treat high blood pressure as a root-cause problem, and one of the first places I look is the balance of sodium and potassium in your diet.11 Celery brings about three times as much potassium as sodium, along with nitrate and a family of compounds called phthalides, the same compounds concentrated in the celery seed extracts that lowered blood pressure in placebo-controlled trials, so a glass supports healthy blood pressure from more than one side.11278 Your body heals itself, and a food like this is there to support it rather than force it.14

The season matters too, so in the colder months I'd have you eat celery warm, in a soup, or add ginger to your juice, because celery is a cooling food that can bring your body temperature down.4

Did you know?

• A stroke medicine approved in China in 2002, dl-3-n-butylphthalide, is based on a compound isolated from celery seed.15

• In a survey of five common vegetables sold in five U.S. cities, conventional celery carried more nitrate than broccoli, cabbage or lettuce, second only to spinach.12

• In Arabic and Persian, celery is karafs; in Chinese, it's qin cai; and in Hindi, it's ajmud.16

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What is celery juice?

You can make celery juice two ways: run the stalks through a juicer, or blend them and strain out the pulp. Either way, you end up with a bright green, slightly salty and slightly bitter drink that tastes like a concentrated stalk of celery. Plain celery juice has become a popular morning drink, often taken as a tall glass before breakfast, but people were using celery as medicine long before anyone thought to juice it.

Celery's long history in traditional medicine

Traditional Arab and Islamic Medicine used celery for spasms and stomach problems and as a diuretic, a laxative and a sedative.16 The scholar Ibn al-Qayyim, who wrote a famous book on prophetic medicine, described wet celery leaves as cooling to the stomach and liver and helpful for menstrual problems and kidney stones.16 On the other side of the world, African traditional medicine in Trinidad and Tobago used celery as a heart tonic to lower blood pressure, which is the same job modern trials have tested with its seed.168

Healers on different continents leaned on celery for the stomach, for passing water and for the heart, and the compounds in its juice go a long way toward explaining why. An analysis of juices from 26 celery varieties, six of them profiled in detail, found 38 flavonoids, 71 phenolic acids and 11 phthalides, including 3-n-butylphthalide, the compound researchers credit for much of celery's effect on blood pressure.319

Celery juice in Chinese medicine and Ayurveda

In Ayurvedic medicine, celery is a cooling food. It sits with cucumber, aloe vera and coconut among the cooling foods that help reduce heat in the body, which is why I point the pitta body type, the one most prone to inflammation and too much heat, toward cucumber and celery.20

Traditional Chinese Medicine matches food to the season, and because spring tends to be warm and wet, it calls for drying foods such as celery, turnips and asparagus.21 That fits the timing I recommend for celery juice, spring and early summer.5 Winter works the other way, since cold foods, raw vegetables and ice-cold drinks are among the foods Chinese medicine says deplete your qi, your vital energy.21

Celery juice nutrition facts

Calculated from USDA FoodData Central record 2345331 (celery juice), which USDA builds from 100 grams of raw celery for every 100 grams of juice, at its 236-gram cup. These are the values for celery blended whole. % Daily Value uses FDA reference values.622

For 33 calories, that's a lot of nutrition: a cup gives you more than half a day's vitamin K, a fifth of your folate and a solid share of potassium.6 Celery is also one of the foods I recommend to help alkalize your body, because its potassium, magnesium and calcium outweigh its acid-forming protein and phosphorus by the standard measure researchers use to rate foods, which makes it a natural fit for an alkaline diet.33231

Celery also made my list of the 10 most hydrating foods for its water plus sodium and potassium,4 the same electrolytes your body uses to hold on to the water you drink.

How celery juice works in your body

A glass of celery juice does its work in three places: the water and minerals your cells run on, the walls of your arteries, and the inflammation and uric acid that can build up in your joints.

Hydration comes first, and it comes down to balance: you want sodium, you want potassium and you want water.4 I learned that the hard way during a 21-day Daniel fast I did without salt. I felt weak and moody from being dehydrated, and looking back, I'd have eaten more celery and other foods with natural salt and potassium to stay hydrated.4 That hydration shows up in your skin too, and from a hydration standpoint, celery is one of the foods I recommend to help your skin age more slowly.20

Your arteries come next, starting with potassium, one of the minerals my High Blood Pressure Protocol builds your plate around, aiming for 4,000 to 4,700 milligrams a day from food.11 Celery juice also carries phthalides, including 3-n-butylphthalide,3 and in lab studies, celery seed extract relaxed the muscle in rat arteries by limiting the calcium that makes that muscle contract.13 In rats, celery seed extracts lowered blood pressure only in the animals whose pressure was high to begin with, and the extract richest in 3-n-butylphthalide lowered it the most.19

Celery also brings nitrate: in that survey of vegetables from five U.S. cities, conventional celery averaged 1,496 milligrams of nitrates per kilogram.12 The bacteria in your mouth and gut turn that nitrate into nitrite, which your body uses to make nitric oxide, the molecule that helps your blood vessels widen.24 My protocol fills half your plate with potassium- and nitrate-rich vegetables and asks you to chew slowly and skip antibacterial mouthwash, so your saliva can do its nitrate work, and a glass of celery juice fits right into that plan.11

Finally, celery's flavones, mostly apigenin and luteolin, have anti-inflammatory effects in lab and animal research,2 and celery extracts also slowed the enzyme your body uses to make uric acid, as the gout section below explains.25 Apigenin is also one of my top five senolytic standouts in Heal Your Cells: senescent cells are worn-out cells that linger and stir up inflammation, and apigenin is a flavonoid shown in early studies to reduce their activity and inflammation.26 Put together, a glass of celery juice works like this:

Celery juice benefits

Should you drink celery juice on an empty stomach?

Morning is a natural time for celery juice, because you can make it before breakfast and drink it while it's fresh. In spring and early summer, a morning glass pairs well with the other sour and bitter foods I recommend that time of year, such as sauerkraut and other fermented foods.5

Cold weather calls for a different approach, because celery is a cooling food, and in the middle of winter, or if you tend to run cold, you want to eat cooling foods warm or pair them with something warming.4 So on cold days, drink your juice at room temperature rather than ice-cold, add a piece of fresh ginger, which is warming, or have your celery in a warm chicken vegetable soup.421

How much celery juice should you drink a day?

A glass or two a day gives you the hydration and minerals without crowding out the rest of your diet. I don't recommend a lot of high-sugar juices,5 so keep celery as the base of your glass and use fruit as a light touch for flavor.

If you're new to it, start with one glass, see how your digestion responds and build to two if it suits you, alongside the filtered water you drink through the day.

Celery juice vs. whole celery

When you juice celery, the machine separates it into a glass of juice and a handful of pulp. In that Ohio State lab study, the Chinese celery, stalks and leaves together, gave up 79% of its weight as juice in a masticating juicer, and of the flavones recovered afterward, 56% were in the juice and the other 44% stayed behind in the pulp.2 The fiber goes with the pulp too. Whole celery has 1.6 grams of fiber per 100 grams, about 3.8 grams in the 236 grams of celery that blend into an 8-ounce glass, and a strained juice leaves most of it behind.16

With fruit, the difference between juice and whole food is big, because a glass of orange or apple juice is basically sugar water next to the whole fruit, with its fiber and nutrients.14 Celery, by contrast, has only 1.34 grams of natural sugar per 100 grams,1 so its juice stays a low-sugar drink. The fiber still matters, though, which is one more reason to keep eating the stalks, and as I've said on my show, "Eating celery is amazing throughout the year."33

Cooked celery has helped blood pressure in people too: in a 2025 review of celery trials, the two small trials of celery cooked into a soup or decoction (40 and 74 people, one of them a celery and black jujube soup), pooled together, showed a bigger drop in systolic blood pressure than their control groups, and in both, people knew which treatment they got.27 So drink the juice and eat the stalks, raw in salads, as a snack with almond butter or warm in soups, and you get the best of both.11

How to make celery juice (with a juicer or a blender)

A juicer is the quickest route, but you don't need one, because a blender and a fine strainer work just as well.

1. Choose fresh, firm stalks. Organic celery is a good choice when you can find it, and rinse every stalk well, especially near the base, where dirt collects.

2. Trim the base. Keep the leaves for a stronger, slightly more bitter juice, or save them for soup.

3. With a juicer, feed the stalks through one at a time and stir the juice when it's done.

4. With a blender, cut the stalks into 1-inch pieces and blend on high until smooth, adding a splash of water only if your blender needs it.

5. Strain it. Pour the blend through a fine-mesh strainer or a nut-milk bag and press or squeeze the pulp to get all the juice out.

6. Finish it your way. Add a squeeze of lemon or lime, a few mint leaves or a slice of ginger, and drink it chilled in warm weather and at room temperature in cold weather.

Drink it fresh, ideally the day you make it, and keep any extra cold in a sealed glass jar. The pulp is still good food, so stir it into a soup, a broth or a batch of veggie burgers instead of tossing it.

Celery juice recipes

Plain celery juice is the classic, but my green juice rule leaves plenty of room: cucumber and celery as the base, lots of greens like kale and spinach, herbs like ginger and turmeric, lemons and limes, and little or no sugar.9 For more ideas, see these juicing recipes and this anti-inflammatory juice.

My mom's morning green drink

When my mom was sick, one of the things she started doing was juicing vegetables, along with green smoothies, and for the most part they were cucumbers and celery with a little ginger root.34 The version in my Cancer Support Protocol is the one she made every morning: spinach, celery, cucumber, cilantro, lime and a green apple, blended or juiced, with a few drops of stevia if needed.18

Celery, cucumber, ginger and lemon green juice

This one follows my green juice rule to the letter, with no sweet fruit at all, and the ginger warms it up for cooler months.94

Apple, celery and ginger juice

Half a green apple and a squeeze of lime take the edge off celery's saltiness without turning the glass into a sugary juice. For a version closer to a classic green juice, add a handful of spinach and a few chunks of pineapple.

For a simple snack with the same nutrients, celery sticks with almond butter are on the 7-day meal plan in my High Blood Pressure Protocol,11 and an alkaline juice is another easy way to work celery into your morning.

Should you do a celery juice cleanse?

Yes, if you do it my way: a glass of celery juice each morning inside a short spring reset of real food, with meals throughout the day.514 Many celery juice cleanses call for a large glass of juice every morning for days or weeks, sometimes in place of food, and that's where I part ways with them. Real cellular detoxification happens deep in your liver, in a two-step process, and it doesn't come from a juice cleanse or a trendy tea.26

For a spring cleanse, I recommend lighter proteins like wild-caught fish, bone broth and lean chicken, loads of steamed vegetables, beans and hummus, and lots of bitter and sour foods, with celery juice alongside.5 Your liver, kidneys, gut, skin and lymphatic system all need support during a cleanse, and real food gives it to them.14 Our guides to a liver cleanse and how to detox your body lay out the fuller plan.

I learned the cost of overdoing it in my first year in practice, when I did a really aggressive detox for a month with every herb you can think of, and afterward I had loose stools for a year, until Chinese medicine showed me what I'd done to myself.14 More aggressive is not better, and a good cleanse simply supports your body in doing what God already designed it to do.14

Celery juice side effects and who should be careful

Celery allergy. Celery is one of the most common food allergies in Europe, where the law requires it to be named on food labels, and it often goes along with a birch or mugwort pollen allergy. Reactions range from an itchy mouth to, rarely, anaphylaxis.3536 If celery or those pollens make your mouth itch or swell, skip celery juice, and know that cooking doesn't make celery safe for everyone, because some of its allergens survive heat.35 Learn the signs of a food allergy, and call 911 for trouble breathing or throat swelling.

Sun sensitivity. Celery contains psoralens, compounds that make skin more sensitive to UV light, but normal amounts don't cause trouble: volunteers who ate 300 grams, and in another study 500 grams or more, of celery root (celeriac) had no detectable psoralens in their blood and no skin reaction.3738 A woman who ate a large amount of celery root an hour before a tanning-parlor visit did get a severe burn, and so did a patient on PUVA light therapy after a bowl of celery soup.3940 Skip a big glass before a tanning bed or PUVA, and juice only fresh, firm stalks, since celery infected with pink rot makes more psoralens.4142

Warfarin. A cup of celery blended whole has 69.1 micrograms of vitamin K.6 If you take warfarin, keep your celery juice steady from day to day, and tell the doctor who manages your INR before you start or stop.43

Blood pressure medication. Celery seed extract lowered blood pressure in people taking their usual blood pressure medicines.29 If you take a blood pressure drug such as amlodipine, check your readings at home when you add a daily glass, and talk with your prescriber if they run low.

Kidney disease and potassium. A cup of celery blended whole has about 614 milligrams of potassium.6 With kidney disease, a potassium-sparing diuretic such as spironolactone, an ACE inhibitor such as benazepril or an ARB such as losartan, clear celery juice with your doctor first, as my protocol advises for any added potassium.1144

Sodium. That cup also has 189 milligrams of natural sodium, and 16 ounces has 378,6 so count it if you follow a low-sodium diet.

Pregnancy. Celery as an everyday vegetable fits a healthy pregnancy; a review of the plant reports uterine-stimulant activity, so skip concentrated celery seed supplements while you're pregnant.16 FDA advises pregnant women to drink only juice that's been pasteurized or otherwise treated, and to skip fresh-squeezed juice sold by the glass, such as at juice bars and farmers markets.45

The bottom line

Celery juice: frequently asked questions

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