It’s Time to Freeze Your Green Juice

It’s safe to say that green juice has transitioned from buzzy trend to classic mainstay. Whether you frequent your local juicer or whip up your own concoctions, you’ve probably enjoyed some sort of energizing green liquid in the past month. Well now the months are hot, so how about freezing that green juice?

Sophie Milrom, the founder of New York-based Innocent Pops, started freezing her green juice to make it last longer. “I love green juice, but it’s so expensive and there wasn’t a juice bar near me, so an elegant solution was turning what I made at home into ice pops,” she says. “It’s so much easier.” Then she went to see what kind of frozen green pops she’d find in her local supermarket, assuming, given the world’s love of green right now, that she’d discover stiff competition—there were none. “I spent a couple of months talking to everyone I knew in the food industry, even a kosher butcher! And it is such a nice industry,” she says. “I found so many people who were really willing to explain how things work, people who had nothing to gain from me.” She found a factory, made a few thousand samples, and is slowly rolling out flavors like Tropicarrot and Sweet Beets throughout New York.

If you’re not in New York, however, you can make your own! Here’s Milrom’s own recipe for her favorite flavor.

Ingredients:

1 banana (for best results, use a very ripe banana)
1 cup kale
1 cup coconut water or almond milk
1 cup pineapple (when pineapples aren’t in season, use a pear)

Directions:

Blend the ingredients together in a blender or food processer until smooth.
Freeze for several hours in ice pop molds or tray (if you don’t have them, you can use plastic cups and popsicle sticks). They will last in your freezer for six months!
To unmold, place mold under hot water for only a second.
Serve and enjoy!