Benefits of Juicing and Juicing Recipes!

In order to get the most benefits from juicing you have to look at what type of juicer you are using. The quality of the juice you end up with, really has a lot to do with the type of juicer that you use to extract it.

The most common kitchen juicer and the cheapest, is the ‘centrifugal juicer’ which is like a combination of a grater and spin dryer! You feed your vegetables through the top where a high speed, spinning, fine grater reduces your veggies to a pulp, which then goes into a spinning drum with a fine sieve around the outside of the drum. As it spins the juice passes through the sieve, and then goes down out of the spout into your collection vessel.

Using this type of juicer is definitely better than not juicing at all, but it is really not the best method. You lose a lot of the nutrients and living enzymes as well as some of the juice.

The better type of juicer, a cold press juicer, works like a mincer, and come as single or twin gear types. These juicers definitely cost more, but the end product is far superior. Not only do they extract more of the juice, they also end up with a higher concentration of nutrients as the juice does not heat up in the extraction process. Any type of friction ie. Grating causes temporary heating with nutrient and enzyme loss.

So that’s it for today guys.

Keeping it Raw…

Lynne

Raw Food and Juicing!