Here are 5 wellness shot recipes that are easy to make in 5 minutes in a blender, and are helpful to support gut health, boost your immune system, provide nutrition, energize, calm anxiety, support weight loss and antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. No juicer is needed.
Here are 5 wellness shots for immune boosting juice shots made with healthy ingredients that also fight inflammation, support your gut and digestion, and boost energy. These homemade immunity shots have no added sugars, and the ingredients used are packed with antiviral properties, antioxidants, antimicrobials, vitamin c, zinc and other immune boosting components. These juice shots are best boost just in time for cold, flu and Covid season!
Made in your blender or even a jar, these wellness shots are healthy juice shots that will cost you pennies to make, a bargain compared to the expensive wellness shots for sale at the grocery store. Like my potent immune-boosting ginger shots, and my anti-inflammatory turmeric shots, these wellness shots can be made a week or more in advance and stored until you need them.
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Why You'll Love These
Improve your nutrition levels. Depending on the ingredients in the wellness shots you choose, drinking a wellness shot a day can help you get your recommended daily nutritional requirements.
One study by the NIH showed that drinking healthy juice shots and healthy juices can improve the levels of nutrients in your blood steadily, leading to better health and wellbeing.
Quick & easy recipes. My anti inflammatory juice shots are made with ingredients you probably have on hand, including ginger root, turmeric root, apple cider vinegar, black pepper, beets and fruits. I also have two unusual wellness shots that are strong on removing stress and decreasing inflammation , a green juice using tarragon herb and a pink one with goji berries.
Wellness Shots Benefits
Wellness shots aren't a magic bullet by themselves, but regular intake of them, combined with healthy levels of exercise and a wholesome diet can impart a significant boost to your nutritional levels and support a healthy immune system.
Ingredients Needed
Stock your refrigerator with these ingredients to be able to make my 5 wellness shots:
- ginger root, fresh or ground
- lemon juice
- cayenne pepper
- apple cider vinegar
- turmeric, ground
- pineapple
- beets, fresh/raw, precooked
- tarragon or mint
- parsley
- goji berries or raspberries
While you are stocked, you can also use many of these ingredients in my other detox drinks and shots, including watermelon juice, beet juice, golden milk turmeric latte, and even my apple cider vinegar and lemon juice drink.
Equipment Needed
- A blender.
- A fine mesh filter.
- 2 ounce shot glasses. These glass vials work perfectly. Don't freeze these bottles or they might crack; use ice cube trays to freeze.
- ice cube trays. Here are bpa-free ice cube trays to freeze shots in bulk.
Steps to Make
Here are general steps to make wellness shots in a blender. For detail and specific ingredients per shot, refer to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
Step 1: Either stir up a shot in a glass, or if the ingredients need breaking down, blend for 30 seconds.
Step 2: If you blended it, pour that mixture through a fine mesh strainer, and reserve the liquid for your shot.
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Step 3: Whether you stirred up your juice shot, or blended and strained, if need be, add more water to bring amount up to ¼ cup so you end up with two (2-ounce+) shots per flavor.
5 Shot Flavors
1. Apple Cider Vinegar Shot for Immunity, Gut Health
Ingredients: Lemon juice, turmeric, cayenne pepper, apple cider vinegar, water
Benefits: The apple cider vinegar in this wellness shot suppresses appetite, soothes aches and pains, and boosts mood within seconds after you drink it. Lemon juice supports immunity boosts, digestion, turmeric plus pepper eases inflammation, and hikes metabolism.
How does this wellness shot taste? It has a strong sour flavor and will need to be chased with some plain water.
Steps to Make: Stir ingredients together.
2. Pineapple Ginger Shot for Gut Health, Ease Inflammation, Ease Anxiety
Ingredients: Apple cider vinegar, pineapple, ginger, water
Benefits: This wellness shot has gut-supporting apple cider vinegar, as well as ginger which contains gingerol which calms the stomach and can ease anxiety, and pineapple with bromelain which eases inflammation and flushes toxins. This wellness shot also restores and repairs muscles after exercise.
How does this shot taste? This is a great beginner wellness shot as the pineapple makes it sweet and takes the edge off the apple cider vinegar and ginger.
Steps to Make: Wash the ginger root and chop it or measure out ground ginger. To a blender, add the ginger, fresh or frozen pineapple, ACV and water. Blend and strain the mixture.
3. Tarragon Shot for Hydration, Antioxidants
Ingredients: Tarragon, parsley, water
Benefits: Tarragon is an excellent source of magnesium, iron, zinc, calcium, as well as vitamins A,C and B-6, and a potent source of antioxidants that help to neutralize disease-causing free radicals. Parsley is a hydrator. Take this shot to replenish missing nutrients and hydrate. Feel free to swap tarragon for your favorite beneficial herb.
How does this shot taste? This wellness shot has a green taste, similar to strong herbal tea served chilled.
Steps to Make: Wash fresh tarragon and fresh parsley, chop roughly and add to a mug. Then pour ½ cup of hot water, steep for 20 minutes and then strain. Let it cool before drinking.
4. Beet Shot for Blood Flow, Detox
Ingredients: Beets, black pepper, water
Benefits: The beets in this wellness shot contain pigments called betalains which fight inflammation and boosts blood flow which in turn lowers blood pressure and purifies or helps rid the body of toxins. And the black pepper boosts absorption of these benefits.
How does this shot taste? This wellness shot has the earthy flavor from the beets, and heat from the pepper.
Steps to Make: Use pre-cooked beets or raw, cleaned, peeled and chopped. Blend the beets, black pepper and water. Strain.
5. Goji Berry Shot for Immunity, Eye Health
Ingredients: Goji berries, lemons, water
Benefits: Goji berries boosts endorphins so you'll feel happier after drinking. The berries are also high in antioxidants, boost immunity, eye healthy, balance blood sugar, cleans liver, boosts energy and fertility. Lemon juice also boosts immunity. Use dried Goji berries or find a goji berry powder where supplements are sold.
How does this shot taste? Sweet from goji berries, with a citrus punch from the lemon.
Steps to Make: Steep dried goji berries in ½ cup of hot water. Stir in lemon juice and strain. Drink the shot cold.
Substitutions
Tarragon. Use fresh mint leaves instead or any fresh beneficial fresh leafy herb.
Goji berries. Use frozen raspberries instead.
Water. Use coconut water instead to boost electrolytes and sweeten the shots.
Storage
Refrigerate the shots to last 5 days in a covered container.
Or make them in bulk and freeze the wellness shots in ice cube trays. To thaw, drop cubes that equal 2 ounces in a glass the prior night, refrigerate it so it thaws overnight, and your shot is ready for you in the morning.
Ways to Drink Wellness Shots
1. Drink one shot each morning on an empty stomach for fastest absorption.
2. Or add a shot to a smoothie as a boost.
3. Or add a shot to sparkling water for a carbonated detox beverage.
FAQS
Wellness shots give you a burst of nutrients that are quickly absorbed in your stomach. Depending on ingredients, the shots can ease inflammation which is the cause of many medical maladies, and boost your immunity, and ease nausea and support gut health.
Take one wellness shot on an empty stomach first thing in the morning before eating for fastest absorbency.
Take only one wellness shot a day. Taking more might irritate your stomach lining especially if they contain ginger or apple cider vinegar.
The negatives of wellness shots include a possible reaction to a certain ingredient, an upset or acidic stomach or esophagus, and even wearing down of tooth enamel.
The average size of a daily wellness shot is 2-3 ounces.
Other Detox Drinks
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📖 Recipe
5 Wellness Shots For Immunity, Gut Health, Fight Inflammation
Ingredients
Apple Cider Vinegar Shot (immunity, gut health)
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar (Also called ACV)
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric
- ⅛ teaspoon cayenne or black pepper
- 6 tablespoons water
Pineapple Shot (gut health, inflammation, anxiety)
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger root, 1-inch peeled, chopped
- ¼ cup pineapple, fresh or frozen chopped
- ¼ cup water or more water to blend
Tarragon Shot (hydration, antioxidants)
- ¼ cup fresh tarragon leaves or mint leaves
- 1 sprig parsley
- ½ cup hot water
Beetroot Shot (blood flow, detox)
- ⅛ cup raw beet, cleaned, peeled, chopped or 1 teaspoon beet powder
- pinch black pepper
- ½ cup water
Goji Berry Shot (immunity, eye health)
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- ¼ cup goji berries or raspberries or blueberries (frozen or fresh)
- ½ cup hot water
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Instructions
General Instructions
- Follow the instructions per flavor below.*
Apple Cider Vinegar Shot
- Stir ingredients in a glass or jar. These are your two shots.1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar, 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, ¼ teaspoon turmeric, ⅛ teaspoon cayenne or black pepper, 6 tablespoons water
Pineapple Shot
- Wash the ginger and chop roughly or measure out powder. Blend all ingredients and strain. Reserve the liquid as your shots.1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar, 1 teaspoon fresh ginger root, 1-inch, ¼ cup pineapple, fresh or frozen, ¼ cup water
Tarragon Shot
- Wash fresh tarragon and fresh parsley, chop roughly and add to a mug. Then pour on ½ cup of hot water, let it steep covered for 20 minutes. Strain off the leaves and reserve the liquid as your shots. Let it cool before drinking.¼ cup fresh tarragon leaves, ½ cup hot water, 1 sprig parsley
Beetroot Shot
- Wash, peel and chop raw beets, or use beet powder. Add all ingredients to a blender jar, process and strain. Reserve the liquid as your shots.⅛ cup raw beet, cleaned, peeled, chopped, pinch black pepper, ½ cup water
Goji Berry Shot
- Pour ½ cup of hot water over ¼ cup goji berries, let sit covered 20 minutes, strain off berries, keep liquid, add your lemon juice. These are your shots.1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, ¼ cup goji berries, ½ cup hot water
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Mark Tilley says
Hello, great recipes and will be using them to make a bunch of shots, but can you let me know how most of these recipes alkalize since many of the ingredients are quite acidic such as the lemon juice and apple vinegar, pineapple etc. I have read that ginger is alkaline but I am wondering if that is really the case, as ginger ale in acidic (I can measure ginger juice at work since we have a pH meter) Thanks for the great recipes.
Dee Dine says
Good question! Lemon juice and those other juices you reference have an acidic pH before digested, but once metabolized by the body, produce alkaline byproducts which create an alkaline environment in the body, an environment which promotes health and prevents disease.[source]
Thomas says
can these be made in a big batch and portioned out for the week?
Dee Dine says
Yes, but I've read that technically nutrition drops slightly each passing day. Although I personally big batch every Sunday and my immunity boosters feel like they help me fight symptoms even on the following Saturday so I don't see a huge drop in nutritional power over 7 days.
Donna says
I want to do this as well, I was hoping someone had calculated the recipe to fill a nutribullet to make a batch.
Percy says
the ACV + Lemon + Turmeric + Cayenne Shot was so bad to take down, but I think it's making me feel better, I'm a little sick. Thanks!
Dee Dine says
You can add a bit of orange juice to make it taste better in future. And hope you feel better soon! Dee
Izzy says
These all look so good - especially the pineapple shot!
Izzy | Pinch of delight
Debbie says
Thank you Izzy! Take care, Dee xx
Mariela says
They all look so good!! I'm trying this really soon!! I've been looking for something like this! Thank you so much for sharing the recipes 😘
Debbie says
That so fun Mariela! That's what happened to me, I was so confused with so many different recipes conflicting so I thought I need to create a few with important benefits and was so happy to learn about tarragon and goji berries. I hope you have a lovely week cutie! It was so lovely that you commented here, thank you so much! See you on IG! Take care, Dee xx.