Homemade Tomato Juice Recipe

This Homemade Tomato Juice recipe tastes similar to V8 but is SO much better! Serve it chilled or hot—either way, you’re going to love the zesty flavor and fresh taste of this homemade tomato juice.

Made with Home Grown Tomatoes

I love growing tomatoes in our garden each summer for canning. I love preserving the tastes of summer for those cold Winter months. If you love canning as much as I do, I hope you will enjoy this and all of our other easy canning recipes!Homemade Tomato Juice is so rich, delicious, and filling! It tastes so much better than V8 Juice, and probably a lot better for you since you know exactly what is in it. I am not even kidding, this stuff is like liquid gold at our house. Even the kids love drinking it! I like it best drinking it ice cold, but I save plenty to use in all sorts of recipes and as a base for many soups. If you’re not sure about making your own tomato juice, read on. It’s really quite simple and it tastes so much better than those store bought varieties.

Ingredients in Homemade Tomato Juice

Obviously the key ingredient for homemade tomato juice is tomatoes. The better the tomatoes, the better the juice. I always use fresh tomatoes from my garden but tomatoes from a local farm or farmer’s market will work just as well. Try to buy your tomatoes in the late summer months in your area, when they are at their peak (most are between June-September). Season your tomato juice with salts, onion salt, and celery salt (or powders) to your liking. You can also try adding pepper, basil, or oregano for different flavor variations.

How to Can Tomato Juice

Benefits of Drinking Tomato Juice

According to the National Institute of Health, food sources that are high in lycopene, such as tomatoes, have many potential health benefits. Lycopene may reduce the risk of certain cancers, help with cardiovascular disease, and get this… reduce the risk of SUNBURN. These are just a few of the potential health benefits from drinking tomato juice. Read more about the health benefits from the source at the National Institute of Health. In a study done by the Department of Nutrition in China, and published by the National Institute of Health, it was found that tomato juice supplementation significantly reduced body weight, body fat, waist circumference, and BMI in healthy women between the ages of 20-30. Pretty cool. Right?! Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3850026/ Read Next: Easy Dinner Ideas Did you know that store-bought tomato juice can be VERY high in sodium? This causes the store-bought juice to lose some of it’s health benefits. By making tomato juice from scratch at home, you have full control over the amount of sodium that is added! Reduce the salt in your juice to your specifications in this recipe and enjoy your healthy drink! Turn this tomato juice into a non-alcoholic Bloody Mary by simply adding a squeeze of fresh lemon and a few drops of hot sauce (such as Tabasco sauce). Serve with ice cubes, fresh parsley, celery, or pickles.

More Canned Tomato Recipes

We end up with bushels of tomatoes from our garden each year and it seems they go bad before we can use them all. Here are some of our favorite ways to can tomatoes so we can enjoy them all year long. Try a few for yourself!