Berries? We Can Juice That!

It's summer, so I loaded up on a ton of cheap organic berries -- strawberries, cherries, blueberries, and blackberries.  If the marketing hype is to be believed, these berries (and "berries") pack a powerful antioxidant punch.

Okay, technically only blueberries are true berries, from a botanical point of view. They are fleshy and produced from a single ovary.

A strawberry is an aggregate of achenes on a big red receptacular accessory fruit...

...a cherry is a drupe...

...and a blackberry is a drupecetum, or aggregate of drupelets.

Nerd alert! (I mostly just wanted an excuse to write 'receptacular'.)

How to prep:
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Strawberries -- rinse; cut off the green tops (persistent calyx).
Cherries -- rinse; take off the stems and remove the pits.  (By the way, whoever discovers a mutant [or genetically modified?] seedless cherry is going to make a pretty penny.
Blueberries -- just rinse.
Blackberries -- just rinse.

Cherries prepped the night before.

Fresh Berry and Spinach Juice Recipe
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~2 c. strawberries
~2 c. cherries
~1.5 c. blueberries
~1.5 c. blackberries
small chunk of raw red beet (optional; for added color)
~5 c. fresh spinach
4-5 Granny Smith apples, quartered
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Run the berries through a juicer.  Then add small handfuls of spinach, each followed by a piece of apple.
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Makes ~80 oz., or four of these bad boys:

Crazy delicious!