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If you are into making fresh juice at home then you probably know that mixing your fruits and vegetables is a great way to make new and interesting combinations that taste really good and are still healthy. Generally speaking, fruit juice is not quite as beneficial in terms of vitamin, nutrient, and healing properties. Although it is certainly not BAD for you, it also does tend to contain quite a lot of sugar. Fruit sugar is not as unhealthy as processed sugars you find in your kitchen or in commercial products, but if you are on a low calorie diet then even fruit sugar may be something you wish to take into account when planning your day.  A low calorie diet can include vegetable juice with a little fruit juice mixed in, or just vegetable juice by itself, but that may take some getting used to.  To work your way up to pure vegetable juice, try the following.  I prefer to use stainless steel juicers but you can use any kind of juicer.
Here are some of the best combinations of fruits and vegetables that I have come up with so far. My emphasis is always on minimum sugar content.
1. Carrot, celery, capsicum (pepper) and ginger. 2 pounds of carrot, a bunch of celery, one green capsicum, and an inch cube if ginger root. This juice is very rich in vitamins A,B, and C. The green capsicum is actually richer in vitamin C than oranges are! It is surprisingly sweet thanks to the carrot.
2. Tomato, celery and carrot. Use the ingredients in a ratio of about 4 carrots and tomatoes each to one bunch of celery. Again it is nice and sweet with the carrot juice.
3. Cabbage, ginger, and celery. Use about half a head of cabbage with a good inch cube of fresh ginger, and a few sticks of celery to dilute it a bit (cabbage tastes quite strong). Cabbage juice is actually fairly sweet itself and the ginger is there to cover the “cabbagy” taste and smell.  Ginger will juice best in a stainless steel juicer or a twin gear juicer, as it will extract more juice from the dryish root, but all juicers will got some juice out.

If you try these combinations you will find that juice without so much fruit can be very palatable indeed, and if the colour is a deterrent for you many people, especially kids, find that drinking it through a straw takes away some of that “my juice looks too green!” factor.  Best of all it is so good for you.